‘Anything he signs into law we won’t recognise as legitimate,’ Oath Keepers founder says
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America’s largest militia says it will refuse to recognise Biden as president and ‘resist’ his administration
Griffin Connolly and Richard Hall
November 15, 2020
A sense that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump, which there has been no evidence for, pervaded among his supporters who marched in Washington on Saturday. (Getty Images)
The largest militia group in the US will refuse to recognise President-elect Joe Biden as the nation’s duly elected leader when he is sworn in on 20 January 2021.
The
Oath Keepers, an armed right-wing organisation that boasts tens of thousands of members with
law enforcement and military backgrounds, was one of several groups to demonstrate in
Washington over the weekend at the “Million MAGA March” in support of
Donald Trump, whom news networks project has lost the 2020 election.
“I think about half this country won’t recognise Biden as legitimate. They won’t recognise this election,” Stewart Rhodes, who founded the Oath Keepers, told
The Independent on Saturday in the nation’s capital.
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“What that means is that everything that comes out of his mouth will be considered not of any force or effect, anything he signs into law we won’t recognise as legitimate. We’ll be very much like the founding fathers. We’ll end up nullifying and resisting,” Mr Rhodes said.
Thousands of Trump supporters — including members of far-right groups such as the Proud Boys, the Boogaloo Boys, and the Oath Keepers, as well as ordinary American citizens — participated in the march, which was pervaded by a sense that the 2020 election was stolen from Mr Trump.