Was Donald Trump’s late-night tweet a call to arms? The former president’s tweet called for the mass protest on Jan. 6, saying, “Be there. Will be wild.”
Stewart Rhodes, leader of Oathkeepers, mobilized his army. Tasha Adams, Rhodes’ ex-wife, spoke out to Inside Edition and said that Rhodes was a fugitive. “obviously not mentally well.”
Adams says Rhodes’ goal was to “create a civil war, so that he could become a great leader.”
Rhodes created the Oath Keepers shadowy organization in 2009 and recruited up to 35,000 members.
This group was a key part of the assault on Capitol Hill. In full combat gear, several were seen carving a path to the Capitol steps in a maneuver called “The Maniac”. “The Stack.”
Adams claims that Adams believes her ex and other militia leader were in contact through intermediaries with the White House.
“They would keep it two, three people apart. There would be a chain of people that they would speak through,” Adams said.
She says Rhodes was a former U.S. Army paratrooper who dug tunnels underneath his Montana home to evade capture from the FBI.
“Those tunnels led out to a Forest Service road out behind the property, and he had unregistered cars waiting out there, so that if the feds came for him one day, he could run out the back into the tunnels,” Adams said.
“We lived like that for so long, it almost didn’t seem strange, honestly,”She continued.
After 26 years of marriage, Adams divorced Rhodes.
“Every day was scary with him,” Adams said.
Rhodes is currently in prison awaiting trial on charges of seditious conspiracy in connection to his alleged involvement in the insurrection. He has pleaded innocent.