Editing Stewart Rhodes

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|image = Stewart_Rhodes.jpg
|fullname = Elmer Stewart Rhodes III
|alias = 
|occupation = Founder of the [[Oath Keepers]] <br> U.S. Army paratrooper (formerly) <br> Lawyer (formerly)
|origin = Big Arm, Montana, United States
|hobby = Fighting for gun rights <br> Using Twitter <br> Discrediting "Marxist leftists" <br> Practicing law
|goals = "Defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic" (ongoing) <br> Overturn the 2020 presidential election results and give [[Donald Trump]] four more years in office (failed)
|skills= Vocal charisma
|crimes = Sedition <br> Trespassing <br> [[Vandalism]] <br> Obstruction of justice <br> Conspiracy <br> [[Propaganda]] <br> [[Defamation]]
|type of villain = Far-Right Leader
}}
{{Quote|You gotta declare everything that comes out of King Biden's mouth as illegitimate- null and void from the inception because he is not a legitimate president.|Stewart Rhodes discrediting President Joe Biden}}
'''Stewart Rhodes''' is a former U.S. Army paratrooper and lawyer and the founder of the [[Oath Keepers]], a far-right anti-government militia organization.
== Biography ==
Rhodes was born in 1966 in Big Arm, Montana. After graduating from high school, Rhodes joined the U.S. Army as a paratrooper. During his service, he lost his left eye during a handgun accident in 1993.

He later completed his undergraduate at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada, graduating in 1998. He continued to attend law school, eventually graduating from Yale Law School and ultimately becoming a lawyer in Montana. Rhodes founded the [[Oath Keepers]] in 2009.

== During the 2021 Capitol attack ==
Rhodes commanded the [[Oath Keepers]] during the [[2021 United States Capitol storming]]. He was eventually arrested a year and a week after the riots, on January 13, 2022. In November 2022 Rhodes, [[Kelly Meggs]], [[Kenneth Harrelson]], [[Jessica Watkins]] and [[Thomas Caldwell]] were found guilty of obstruction of an official proceeding. Rhodes and Meggs were also found guilty of seditious conspiracy, a charge carrying a sentence of 20 years in prison, serving it of a 60 year sentence. 

== Quotes ==
*{{Quote|It’s critical that towns and counties do all they can with their own resources now to prepare. Do not count on the state or federal government to give you all you need.|}}
*{{Quote|Imagine that Herr Hitlery is sworn in as president in 2009. After a conveniently timed "domestic terrorism" incident (just a coincidence, of course)… she promptly crams a United Nations mandated total ban on the private possession of firearms.|One of Rhodes' writings in the S.W.A.T Magazine, comparing Hillary Clinton to [[Adolf Hitler]]}}
*{{Quote|We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.|}}

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