President Joe Biden granted a sweeping 11-year pardon to his son Hunter, making it much easier for President-elect Donald J. Trump to pardon all 1,560-plus defendants on Jan. 6. , says the founder of the Oath Keepers.
Elmer Stewart Rhodes III, 59, who is serving an 18-year prison sentence on January 6 for seditious conspiracy and tampering with documents and evidence, was arrested in a selective prosecution case by the U.S. Department of Justice. He said he was pleased that Mr. Biden acknowledged that
“Mr. Biden finally agrees with President Trump and our J6 political prisoners, who have been pointing out that reality for years. Our legal system is completely corrupt, politicized, and under the influence of 'raw politics.' have been 'weaponized' into the United States,” Rose told Blaze News. Statement from the Federal Penitentiary in Cumberland, Maryland.
Rose said President Trump was indicted in a classified documents case in Florida that was later dismissed, a January 6 obstruction case in Washington, D.C., several cases in New York state, and one case in Georgia. He said he was acutely aware that the judicial system had been weaponized.
A unilateral investigation by a special committee on January 6th, two impeachment charges that resulted in acquittals, and a civil lawsuit filed by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi), the District of Columbia, and individuals. Needless to say.
“In Biden's alternate reality, only the prosecution of his son is unfair and political.”
“President Trump now knows exactly what it's like to go through a kangaroo court, a Stalinist show trial, in a left-wing courtroom with a left-wing jury and a left-wing judge,” Rose said. spoke. “He also knows that he will not receive meaningful review from left-wing appellate courts in either state or federal courts. He knows the way to do it is through President Trump himself granting pardons and commutations.
“Biden pardoning his son, President Trump pardoning our J6 political prisoners makes it difficult for anyone to criticize him,” Rose said. “Of course, the left will continue to scream bloody murder and has already stepped up its campaign to demonize all of us, especially the high-profile ones. The smear hits have already begun.
Selective prosecution?
“But now that Biden has pardoned his son despite his obvious guilt while thousands of other Americans have done the exact same thing and continue to rot in prison, all this noise and false rant “Confidence will be further eroded,” Rose said.
When Biden granted his pardon on Dec. 1, he said Hunter Biden had been “selectively and unfairly prosecuted” by the Justice Department on gun and tax charges. The pardon dates back to 2014 and blunted potential prosecutions related to alleged kickbacks from Ukraine and China.
Although selective prosecution has been filed in many of the criminal cases on Jan. 6, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia does not allow selective prosecution as a defense.
Oath Keepers Founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes III will testify before the Special Committee on January 6, 2022 on June 9, 2022.Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP, Getty Images
During the trial, which ran from September 27 to November 29, 2022, Mr. Rose argued that he was charged with speaking before, during and after January 6. Rose had urged President Trump to use his rhetoric by invoking the Insurrection Act in 2020. Power to declassify archives of documents to expose the deep state and social elites. Rose said if Trump doesn't act, others will pay the price in a bloody revolution.
Although Mr. Rose did not enter the Capitol on January 6, he was charged by the Justice Department with an implied conspiracy to attack the Capitol and resist the authority of the U.S. government by force. At the Oath Keepers' first trial, the FBI said a group of Oath Keepers entered the Capitol through the Columbus Door after 2:30 p.m., but there were no plans to break into or attack the Capitol. he testified.
“In Biden's alternate reality, only the prosecution of his son is unfair and political, while the other prosecutions are perfectly fine,” Rose said. “Indictment of all J6? Sentencing me to 18 years for standing outside the Capitol and exercising my right to free political speech without hurting anyone? That's fine.
“Grant them all a pardon so they can finally tell the truth without fear of being punished.”
“Enrique Tarrio wasn't even in Washington, D.C., on January 6th and he gets a 22-year sentence? That's fine,” Rose said. “14 years in prison for Kelly Meggs, the Oath Keeper seen on video helping police inside the Capitol? That's good.”
In order to create a narrative that President Trump ordered the insurrection at the Capitol, Rose said he and others were “not because of what we did, but because of who we are.” He said he was targeted. All to prevent Trump from continuing in office beyond January 20, 2021.
“but [Biden’s] The son of a drug-addicted felon was arrested red-handed for lying on a federal firearms report and possessing a firearm, but was his prosecution unfair and motivated solely by politics? ? Come on, hey!
Rose said a full pardon would allow people forced to testify falsely to come forward and expose those who resist.
“The only way to fully unravel the 'law', unravel the great lie of January 6th, and begin to dismantle this empire of lies is to grant amnesty to all of them, without fear of ultimately being punished. It’s about being able to tell the truth,’” Rose said.
The Oath Keepers' 2022 trial was fueled by false testimony, Rose said. He was acquitted of charges of conspiracy to disrupt the January 6 joint session of Congress and conspiracy to obstruct members of Congress from carrying out their duties.
Rose's conviction for obstructing an official proceeding is likely to be vacated by the June 28 U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Fisher v. United States. Mr. Rose has not applied to have the verdict set aside or re-sentenced except for the 20-year felony obstruction charge.
“That's why I think President Trump should pardon everyone, including the traitors who sold themselves and committed perjury and perjury,” Rose said. “They, too, should be pardoned so that they can speak freely and ultimately tell the truth and testify against prosecutors who have engaged in subservient charges of perjury.”
Daniel Ball, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C., said the Justice Department would not comment on ratification of perjury charges.
Deprivation of Veterans Benefits
He said the pardon could “correct” the denial of rightfully earned Department of Veterans Affairs benefits stripped from many defendants on Jan. 6.
Rose served in the U.S. Army as an infantryman in a long-range reconnaissance unit. Rose said he is rated 50 percent disabled by the Veterans Administration because of his injuries sustained in the line of duty.
“I almost died in a parachuting accident during a night jump during a parachute training exercise on extremely dangerous rough terrain. “Rose said.
Rose said he received a letter from the Veterans Administration saying he would be stripped of all his disabled veteran benefits and wouldn't even be able to be buried in a VA cemetery if he died. That is the most horrible insult I have ever received in my life. They were also stripped of the right to keep and bear arms and the right to vote. ”
Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes III speaks to the media at the University of California, Berkeley in 2017.
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Rose, a lifelong Republican, said he has responsibly carried a concealed weapon his entire adult life to protect his family and those around him. As a felon, Rhodes cannot possess a firearm.
“Everything was taken away from me,” Rose said. “Only a pardon can establish that right and restore me to my rightful place as a full citizen. And it's not just me. The same goes for many others who are both veterans and sheepdogs. This also applies to defendant J6.
If granted a pardon, President Trump would follow in the footsteps of Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Washington pardoned those convicted of treason in the Whiskey Rebellion tax protests of 1794. Mr. Rose said Mr. Jefferson pardoned men convicted and imprisoned under the Alien Act and Sedition Act of 1798.
“In both cases, those great founding fathers pardoned everyone involved as a way to undo the dangerously heated political turmoil of the time,” he said.
“And when Jefferson pardoned people imprisoned for free speech under the Sedition Act, he upheld the First Amendment even though no federal court overturned a single conviction. I did it for that purpose.”
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