It’s what totally not-guilty, red-blooded, all-American, MAGA-patriot-insurrectionists do.
Via Law & Crime:
Finding the Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes could present a “credible threat” to the public, a federal judge on Wednesday ordered him to remain behind bars pending trial on blockbuster seditious conspiracy charges in the Jan. 6 investigation.
Earlier this month, prosecutors unveiled their indictment charging 56-year-old Rhodes and 10 members of his far-right extremist group with the seditious conspiracy statute. Of the more than 725 people charged on the Jan. 6 docket, Rhodes and his militia members are the only defendants to date to be prosecuted for that offense.
In urging his pre-trial incarceration, prosecutors argued Rhodes and his accused co-conspirators posed a uniquely serious threat to the public.
And to his estranged wife and kids:
According to the ruling, Rhodes’s estranged wife Tasha Adams contacted the court after his detention hearing, telling the judge that she feared for her safety and the safety of her six children if he were released.
Telling the court that Rhodes spoke of his fear of “picked up by the feds,” Adams told the judge that her estranged husband installed “elaborate escape tunnels” in their backyard. Rhodes also hid “unregistered cars in the woods, and purchased hundreds of dollars of razor wire, which Defendant intended to install around the perimeter of the property, concealed from view, ‘in case the feds ever came to his door,’” according to the ruling.
I’m guessing Adams meant some other Rhodes property in Montana, not this place in Texas.
Adams provided some comments and family snaps to support her story Wednesday evening:
“When he is down he’s dangerous because he’s in ‘take them all down with me’ mode and when he’s up he’s dangerous because he’s smug, arrogant and thinks he is chosen for greatness,” Adams tweeted Wenesday afternoon.
This morning, Adams adds to the Rhodes escape tunnels story, “He had this rediculous plan-only ever about 1/4 finished. The tunnels were supposed to go from the house to national forest, the car was to be on a logging road above. The hatch had this lid, he stapled gillie (sp?)suits to it. Half the town knew about them- not very secret”