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Oath Keepers' Stewart Rhodes thanks Trump for pardon

(22 Jan 2025) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ++EDIT STARTS AND ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++ ++SOUNDBITES SEPARATED BY WHITE FLASH++ ASSOCIATED PRESS Washington - 21 January 2025 1. SOUNDBITE (English) Stewart Rhodes, Founder of Oath Keepers: "Well, yesterday we were, we got locked down because someone got stabbed in our facility. Nothing to do with me. But we got lockdowns. But we're listening on the radio. And we heard President Trump say that he's going to be taking action for the J6 hostages, that's when I knew for sure. But I always, I always knew he was going to do it. I had no doubt. I had full faith he was doing it." (Reporter: "So what do you want to say to Trump right now?") Rhodes: "Just thank you. Yeah, thanks." (Reporter: "What emotions did you feel when the pardon came down?") Rhodes: "I'm just, of course, relief, you know? But like I said, I knew it was coming. Joy, you know, gratefulness." ++WHITE FLASH++ 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Stewart Rhodes, Founder of Oath Keepers: Reporter: "So is January 6th a day to be proud of or It's unfortunate?" Rhodes: "I think it's a mix. I think it's unfortunate that anyone went inside because it made it easy for the bad guys to shut down the valid challenges to the elector slates. I think it's unfortunate, but it's understandable because we knew the election was being stolen. It's understandable people were upset. The most people that went inside, they walked into doors already open by somebody else. They were not told they were trespassing. They just, in fact, some, some cops waved them in. And so you had basically entrapment." ++WHITE FLASH++ 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stewart Rhodes, Founder of Oath Keepers: (Reporter: "What are you going to do now?") "Well, I'm going to go report to my probation officer. That’s the first thing, stuff I got to do. I got, within 72 hours." ++EDIT ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++ STORYLINE: Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes said he felt relief when he heard President Donald Trump was taking action to pardon him and other Jan. 6 defendants. "I always knew he was going to do it," Rhodes told reporters in Washington Tuesday. Asked what he would like to say to Trump, Rhodes said "just thank you." Rhodes told reporters he had no regrets and that history should remember January 6th as "patriots day." Rhodes said he isn't sure what he wants to do with Oath Keepers or whether he would like to hold a leadership position in it again. Rioters locked up for their roles in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack were released while judges began dismissing dozens of pending cases Tuesday after President Donald Trump’s sweeping grant of clemency to all 1,500-plus people charged in the insurrection that shook the foundation of American democracy. With the stroke of a pen on his first day back in the White House, Trump’s order upended the largest prosecution in Justice Department history. The order freed from prison people caught on camera viciously attacking police as well as leaders of far-right extremist groups convicted of orchestrating violent plots to stop the peaceful transfer of power after his 2020 election loss. Trump defended the pardons Tuesday, saying the defendants had “already served years in prison” in conditions the president described as “disgusting” and “inhumane.” The former leaders of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, who were convicted of seditious conspiracy in the most serious cases brought by the Justice Department, were both released from prison hours after Trump signed the clemency order. (AP Video by Nathan Ellgren) =========================================================== Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...