The ex-wife of Stewart Rhodes, founder of the far-right Oath Keepers group, said President Trump’s decision to commute his 18-year prison sentence for helping lead the 2021 Capitol insurrection was “insane.”
“I mean, there were terrorism enhancements with his sentence. He was not pardoned. It was a little too big of a sentence, I think, to get away with pardoning him,” Tasha Adams said during a Thursday CNN appearance on “The Source with Kaitlan Collins.”
“So his sentence was commuted. He’s still a convicted felon. It’s insane. It’s absolutely insane,” she told Collins.
Adams shared her outrage not only over the pardons but Rhodes’s meetings with lawmakers on Capitol Hill following his release.
“It’s pretty disgusting, frankly. And then his comments, you know, he had his little flippant comment that he had absolutely no regrets. People died,” she stated earlier in the interview.
“People died because of that day. What a disgusting comment to make. It’s just horrible,” she said.
“It’s mind-boggling that he’s out there wandering around being taken seriously when he spearheaded one of the most violent and just horrific days in American history.”
She said she hoped interacting with Rhodes would be “political kryptonite.”
A federal judge barred Rhodes and seven other Oath Keepers members from coming to D.C. without court approval in a Friday order amending the conditions of their release.
Despite continued criticism, Rhodes said he doesn’t regret his decision to join the J6 riot four years ago but did say people’s actions got out of hand.
“I didn’t go into the Capitol. I didn’t tell anybody else to go inside. We’re here to do security for two permitted events on Capitol grounds,” Rhodes said.
“I regret that my guys went in. They blundered in along with everybody else. It doesn’t make them criminals. It just makes me kind of stupid.”
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