Ex-Oath Keeper outlines dark worldview behind U.S. Capitol attack

7/13/22
 
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from The Washington Post,
7/12/22:

The select committee testimony underscored how Donald Trump’s rhetoric about ‘fighting’ political opponents was received as an order to mobilize.

With his face tattoos and rocker-style denim jacket, Jason Van Tatenhove stood out among the buttoned-up Capitol Hill crowd at Tuesday’s select committee hearing examining the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Van Tatenhove spent years as the senior spokesman and a close aide to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, who faces seditious conspiracy charges in connection with the violence.

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