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From Behind Bars, Oath Keepers Leader Predicts Trump Will Be Charged and Convicted for January 6 Crimes

The special prosecutor appears more interested in Trump’s work on alternative electors than on rampaging militiamen.

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The founder of the citizen militia group known as the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, outside the White House on June 25, 2017. AP/Susan Walsh, file
A.R. HOFFMAN
A.R. HOFFMAN

The prediction by the convicted leader of the Oath Keepers militia, Elmer Stewart Rhodes III, that President Trump will be convicted of the same charges that have landed him behind bars for 18 years signals that the drama of January 6 prosecutions could soon, with the help of Special Counsel Jack Smith, be reaching a crescendo.

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A.R. HOFFMAN
A.R. HOFFMAN

Mr. Hoffman is an associate editor of the Sun, where he covers politics and culture. He holds a PhD from Harvard and a law degree from Stanford.

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