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WASHINGTON – Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the right-wing militia group Oath Keepers whose prison sentence was commuted this week for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack, at President Donald Trump’s Saturday rally in Las Vegas. I appeared.
Rhodes, who was released from prison on Tuesday, was among dozens of Trump supporters who stood behind the president as he spoke in his first week in office at the Circa resort and casino and proposed legislation to end the taxes. Committed to move forward. Photographs taken by Reuters captured Rhodes in the crowd.
Rhodes, who was convicted of plotting a coup in 2022, received the second-longest prison sentence – 18 years – of all the defendants on January 6. He was serving his sentence at a federal prison in Cumberland, Maryland, before his release.
Trump took sweeping action on his first day in office Monday to pardon more than 1,500 people involved in the Jan. 6 attack, seeking to prevent former President Joe Biden from confirming Trump’s 2020 election defeat. went Trump also commuted the convictions of Rhodes and 13 others, all of whom were members of either the far-right Oath Keepers or Proud Boys groups.
Trump has defended using his executive power to grant unconditional pardons to defendants convicted of violent crimes on January 6. Trump has argued that those convicted for their role in the January 6 attack have been treated unfairly in court, worse than the “murderers” he has called on multiple occasions.
“I thought their sentences were ridiculous and excessive,” Trump said this week when asked about his replacement for the leaders of the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys.
U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta on Friday ordered Rhodes to stay away from the Capitol after he is released from prison. But Trump’s Justice Department contested the order, saying the judge did not have the authority to make it.
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