Overview
- Rhodes said on a Gateway Pundit podcast that he is rebuilding the Oath Keepers and asked President Trump to place the group under presidential command.
- He asserted Trump could summon a militia to repel invasions, suppress insurrections, and execute federal laws, including immigration enforcement.
- Coverage notes Article I, Section 8 assigns Congress the power to organize and discipline the militia, undercutting Rhodes’ claim of presidential authority.
- A recent ruling finding Trump’s troop deployment to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act signals judicial resistance to domestic policing by armed forces.
- Rhodes, convicted of seditious conspiracy in 2023 and released earlier this year after presidential clemency, has a trial-recorded remark lamenting that Jan. 6 participants did not bring rifles, and the president has not publicly commented on his request.