Oath Keepers Founder Pardoned By Trump Warns Of ‘Trouble’ Over Lack Of Epstein Files | EUROtoday

The founding father of a violent militia group who was pardoned for his function within the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol assault by President Donald Trump, warned that Trump faces “trouble” over not releasing paperwork associated to the Jeffrey Epstein case.

Stewart Rhodes, the founding father of the far-right group the Oath Keepers, has joined a rising refrain of MAGA voices who’ve expressed anger that Trump hasn’t launched extra details about Epstein, the disgraced financier who killed himself in 2019 earlier than he was set to face trial for intercourse crimes.

“I believe 90% of his own base understands that Epstein was up to something and we know that’s the tip of the iceberg,” Rhodes advised a crowd at a Comfort Inn in Texas final week, the Daily Beast first reported on Tuesday.

Rhodes was referring to Attorney General Pam Bondi’s announcement earlier this month that paperwork associated to Epstein ― together with potential data on his co-conspirators ― don’t exist. Trump, a longtime buddy of Epstein, has blamed Democrats over what he calls a “hoax.”

“It’s really disheartening to see President Trump just declare that to be a hoax,” Rhodes mentioned. “I don’t think it is. And I think it’s going to cause him trouble in his own base. It already is.”

Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in jail for his function within the Jan. 6 assault and was pardoned by Trump together with greater than 1,500 different rioters. Rhodes and his fellow Oath Keepers had deliberate to cease Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s election by any means essential, together with utilizing an arsenal of weapons that they introduced from throughout the nation if Trump had invoked the Insurrection Act that day.

Trump falsely claimed his ballot numbers have “gone up, significantly” following the dearth of Epstein recordsdata.

“My Poll Numbers within the Republican Party, and MAGA, have gone up, significantly, since the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax was exposed by the Radical Left Democrats and, just plain ‘troublemakers,’” Trump wrote Sunday on his social media platform Truth Social.

On Tuesday, Trump once more downplayed his function with Epstein.

“We had the Greatest Six Months of any President in the History of our Country, and all the Fake News wants to talk about is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.