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The children of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes have some things to say [1]
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Date: 2022-11-18
Grifter, disbarred lawyer, and traitor who shot himself in the eye harangues fools who want to play soldier.
Oath Keeper founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes is on trial right now for his part in stoking the January 6 insurrection. And if you’ve been following Daily Kos staff member @Brandi Buchman’s excellent reporting (here’s today’s entry), you probably already have a grasp on how dangerous this right-wing political nut job has been to the health of our nation.
But now that I’ve read what Rhodes was like as a “husband" and “father", I realize that he is also a world-class abuser and an even shittier person than I had supposed.
Here are a few quotes from an interview with Rhodes’ three adult children. Read the whole article at the Southern Poverty Law Center site.
But on the bright side, as you read this horror story, join with me in rejoicing that these young people found the strength to reject the coercive conditioning laid down by their fascist wacko daddy, and that he may soon be facing the consequences of his actions.
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Sequoia: We had no idea how delayed the divorce papers were going to be. We thought that they were going to be delivered that day. We thought that if he is here and we are here when they are delivered, he would kill all of us. We felt that we were running for our lives. … Sedona: I was worried that whatever animals were left behind, he would slaughter them.
No, dammit it, you do not take it out on the animals!
Sequoia: He had a hoard of the most expensive survivalist gear available, but yeah, we never saw any money. He spent a lot of money on trips. He’d come home and there would be no food in the house, because my mom was struggling to figure out how to pay the bills, and she would always be selling silver or something like that, and he’d tell us about the fancy restaurants he had been to while he was away.
Is this guy out of a Dickens novel? “While you nibble on dry crusts, let me tell you about the largest steak I have ever eaten."
Sedona: … Most of the things he did were so he could get exposure. Everything ran on donations. Sometimes [he’d] be on the phone saying, “Oh, well I need money. We need to create an emergency.” And so they’d find something. That’s why they started doing disaster relief.
Oh, that’s why they started doing disaster relief. Everything is a grift with demagogues.
Sequoia: For my childhood and early middle school years, I did not think I had a future – he told us that the world was going to end. … We were home-schooled in theory, but I had to teach myself how to read and do math. But because the world was going to end, it was hard to even see a reason why I should learn to read. I had no future.
Stewart Rhodes, motivational speaker.
Sequoia: [Las Vegas is] a very high-turnover place. People are constantly pulling through, so when Stewart burned everyone around him, he could hop over to a whole new group of people who had never heard of him.
He managed to run a grift in Vegas without getting his legs broken, so there’s that.
Sequoia: … when he was abusive to us, he’d say, “It’s not my fault, I was abused,” so it may have been exaggerated to some extent. It was always his excuse for being terrible, and then he would cry and we were supposed to apologize to him for whatever he had experienced.
“Please forgive me for you hitting me, Daddy."
Dakota: He despised the whole Malheur thing, because it was all about Ammon Bundy trying to be the messiah and trying to fix everything that was wrong in his life by starting a civil war. It’s hilarious because that is basically what Stewart ended up doing. By January 6th everything was falling apart for him, he was afraid of going to prison, so he decided to double down.
The trial of Rhodes et al for seditious conspiracy is nearing its end. The defense should finish their closing arguments Monday or Tuesday, and then it’s in the hands of the jurors.
Follow @Brandi Buchman for the thrilling conclusion.
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