The children of a leader of the radical Oath Keepers group say their militiaman father was very critical of Donald Trump at the beginning of his presidency.
Dakota Adams, the son of Rhodes, told the Southern Poverty Law Center that his father was going to release an open letter to school Trump on the Constitution.
The picture Adams and his two sisters paint of their father in those early days is a far cry from the anti-government activist who has been charged with overseeing a strategic plot to lay siege to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in an attempt to stop the certification of President Joe Biden.
According to prosecutors, Rhodes tried to speak with Trump on the night of the attack, asking an individual on the phone to put him in contact with him so he could urge Trump to oppose the transfer of power.
Rhodes told a group of fellow Oath Keepers that he wanted to fight after the recipient of the phone call declined to talk to Trump.
While his feelings about the Republican president may have changed over the course of four years, his children say he always had a penchant for violence.
In a February interview with Hatewatch, a Southern Poverty Law Center blog that monitors far-right extremism, Dakota Adams, 24, Sedona Adams, 23, and Sequoia Adams, 19, described the longterm abuse they say they suffered at the hands of their father, who founded the Oath Keepers in 2009.
After years of alleged domestic abuse, Rhodes and his wife, Tasha Adams, along with their six children, escaped the home in 2018? The adult children said that if they were still in the home, Rhodes would kill them all.
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I was worried that whatever animals were left behind, he would slaughter them.
The divorce of Adams and Rhodes has been pending for three years. After Rhodes was charged with seditious conspiracy in connection to the Capitol riot earlier this year, his estranged wife told CNN that her former husband is a complete sociopath.
His children said that Rhodes had a fascination with liberty, revolution, and anti-government movements. She said she was never issued a birth certificate.
According to his kids, Rhodes began to change his tune about the leader as he became increasingly worried that a Democratic president might create political cover for the FBI.
When Ammon Bundy occupied the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife refuge in Oregon two years later, Rhodes refused to support the movement because he thought it was all about him.
Dakota told Hatewatch that Stewart ended up doing that because everything was falling apart for him.
Attorneys for Rhodes did not reply immediately. Rhodes is awaiting a fall trial.
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