Jared Moskowitz Pounces On GOP For Stewart Rhodes' Attendance At Hearing

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Source: Huff Post

Jan 14, 2026, 11:42 PM EST | Updated 3 hours ago


Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) called out House Republicans on Wednesday for the presence of Stewart Rhodes, founder of the far-right violent militia group Oath Keepers, at the first hearing for a new GOP-led panel related to the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack. Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy for his role in the riot; however, his 18-year prison sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump upon his return to office.

Republicans used the panel to fuel a “revisionist spectacle,” per The Associated Press, with Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) calling the initial House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack a “total sham” and declaring that police officers put on “a pretty good show” in their testimonies about the bloody scenes from the U.S. Capitol that day.

“It’s not every day, of course ... you get to meet someone who was convicted of seditious conspiracy against the United States. Hasn’t happened in 30 years,” Moskowitz said of Rhodes, adding that the Oath Keepers founder was sitting in the first row, which he said was a “reserved” section controlled by his GOP colleagues.

Rhodes told a HuffPost reporter that he wasn’t there at the panel’s invitation; the committee’s chair, Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), said Rhodes just showed up. Moskowitz continued: “Not sure why he’s here. I don’t know if he’s here to tell us about the Oath Keepers’ secret handshake or what treehouse they meet in or whether girls are allowed in. I’ve always wondered that about the Oath Keepers.”

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@repmoskowitz.bsky.social points out the irony of a GOP-run January 6 hearing where Republicans insist there was no insurrection, yet seated in the GOP's reserved front row seats, is Stewart Rhodes, the founder and former leader of the Oath Keepers.

— House Judiciary Dems (@democrats-judiciary.house.gov) 2026-01-14T21:21:58.086Z

[Shellback Squid]

1. Moscowitz is a treasure

[yellow dahlia]

7. He really is.

[rurallib]

2. I have no doubt the MAGAs are proud of flaunting norms and rules

[Beowulf42]

3. What?

One might call this the dumbing down of America, but America is dumb enough. Any more dumbing down and we will forget to breathe.

[NBachers]

4. Maybe they can call Running Boy to regale us with his tales of heroism and daring bravery.

[Volaris]

5. If his sentence was commuted, it means his conviction still stands?

If so, wasn't he banned for life from the building grounds?
If so, why wasn't he FUCKING ARRESTED IMMEDIATELY?

I'm really looking forward to the day this guy finds a way to get himself killed.

[gfarber]

6. Stewart Rhodes

There once was a hearing quite new,
Where the GOP claimed “Nothing’s true.”
They cried, “Total sham!”
As they waved off the slam
Of a mob that the whole world once knew.

Rep. Moskowitz looked down the row,
And spotted a face he’d know.
A conspirator tried,
For sedition, implied—
“In the first row? Well that’s quite the show.”

Said Jared, with eyebrow arched high,
“You don’t meet folks like this by and by.
Thirty years since the last
Was convicted so fast—
Yet here sits one, front row, oh my.”

Mr. Rhodes, once an Oath Keeper chief,
Had shed prison time by executive relief.
He said, “Not invited!”
The chairman replied it
Was chance—though that strains disbelief.

Republicans called Jan. Sixth a play,
Said the cops “put on quite a display.”
Bloody halls, broken doors,
Were just theater, not wars—
At least that’s what some chose to say.

Moskowitz wondered aloud with a grin,
“What’s the handshake? What clubhouse are we in?
Is it treehouse or fort? included who’s not?
And are girls allowed membership in?”

So the panel rolled on, oddly cast,
With the future revising the past.
While the facts took a seat
Somewhere back from the heat,
And the front row was held by the past.