Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes III has established the Patriots Legal Defense Fund with an initial goal to raise $5 million to help provide legal representation for “various non-violent, peaceful Americans who demonstrated and exercised their First Amendment rights in Washington D.C. on Jan. 5–6, 2021.”
“I am touched and encouraged that patriots, friends, family, and lovers of American liberty have undertaken this project,” Rhodes said in a statement from the Alexandria City Jail in Virginia, where he is being held pending trial on charges of seditious conspiracy and other Jan. 6–related counts.
Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally in Washington on June 25, 2017. (Susan Walsh/AP Photo)
“It is important to help make sure that every persecuted patriot will have the assistance of high-quality and effective attorneys to debunk false claims of prosecutors, Congress, and propagandists,” Rhodes said.
…