The Oath Keepers are in a little
bit of trouble
financially speaking,
they're strapped for cash.
And they have lost quite a few of
their donors ever since the capital
riots took place.
And several of them got arrested
are now facing federal charges.
Now, there have been some
investigations, looking into
the Oath Keepers as a result of the
capital riots, and these far right
groups apparently are going broke.
So as Yahoo News reports,
PayPal booted the Oath Keepers
founders Stewart Rhodes, and
he said, even though this group
wasn't there, and he had to ask
members to send their dues by mail.
Now Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio
said PayPal, Stripe, and other
credit card processors including
several used by porn sites and
gun makers also banned him.
So I mean, but of course,
of course, I mean, all of these
platforms certainly don't want to
do business with a group of people
who are committing potential
crimes, I totally understand that.
Now, Enrique Tarrio also says we've
been bleeding money since January,
like hemorrhaging money,
barely making enough to cover rent.
He also came up with a new plan,
fake it till you make it, right?
So Tarrio said that he set up
a secretive e-commerce site to sell
merchandise with liberal slogans
like Black Lives Matter and Impeach
45 but wouldn't give out its name?
>> No, how is that not the funniest
thing except for the next
thing you're going to hear?
Okay, the Oath Keepers guys is even
more hilarious.
But he's, okay, I realized what's
really popular is that
people really hate Donald Trump.
As more people hate Donald Trump,
I can make money off of them to
support the very few of us who
want to support Trump.
And guys, I want to be super
clear about this whether
it's Oath Keepers or Proud Boys,
the thing of taking them off of
PayPal and Stripe is stuff,
that is a very severe sanction and
should not be done based on their
ideology at all, okay?
The only reason it should be done
is if they are worried that they
are promoting violence.
>> Or engaging in illegal activity.
>> Yes. >> Yeah.
>> And with those two groups there
appears to be and that is up to
PayPal Stripe and the rest of them.
But on the surface, there appears
to be plenty of evidence that
they have promoted violence.
And so that's why the action is
happening, not because
they don't agree with them.
>> So the e-commerce sites that
they used to run had lost about 80%
of their revenue or their business
dropped by 80% I should say.
And apparently the founder
of the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes
said in April that the group has
less than $10,000 in their account,
so they're struggling,
they're strapped for cash.
Multiple board members have accused
Rhodes of using Oath Keepers money
to put down a deposit on a house in
Montana and pay for liquor, guns,
steaks, and items
from the adult store, Alley Katz,
[LAUGH] >> With a Z at the end,
it's so good, Nighties N Naughties.
>> I don't know if he got
the Nighties or Naughties or both.
>> It's so good.
>> Alley Katz around >> No, but
you guys, [LAUGH] >> Grifters are
going to grift do you have to be
super vigilant about these things.
Don't get fooled into thinking that
these are individuals who
are going to take your money and
take back America.
No, they're going to go to
Alley Katz, and they're going to
buy Naughties or Nighties whatever.
I mean, it's just so ridiculous,
you buy steaks,
the guys buying steaks.
Rhodes' lawyer did not dispute that
he spent the money on these items.
Ed Wilson managed IT for
the Oath Keepers in 2015 and
told the journal that Rhodes use
the bank account as a piggy bank.
So gee, I wonder why people stopped
donating to you guys, weird.
>> Yeah, by the way,
he doesn't deny that he spent
the money on those things.
>> Yeah >> That's amazing,
[LAUGH] it's a funny thing about
the right wing, they're yeah,
we're bad guys, so what?
Yeah, you give me money,
you're an idiot I'm going to go be
Naughties and Nighties with it,
[LAUGH] where my Alley Katz are.
[LAUGH] >> He denies other parts of
it, but he doesn't deny that part.
>> Yeah >> No, but I disagree with
Ana, if you're insane right winger
who's potentially thinking
of doing violence, yeah, sure,
send money that guy, he'll wasted
on Naughties and steak.
You see what I'm saying?
He's got a nice house in Montana
now, thanks to you idiots,
but luckily he didn't use it
to create more violence.
I mean, >> Right.
>> They promoted it and by the way,
several dozen of Oath Keepers and
Proud Boys were arrested in
the Capitol Riot, and
hence the we're concerned about
with violence, right?
>> Well,
there are certain, purchases
that could lead to violence so,
let's get to that.
Because there's been some
infighting among the Oath Keepers,
among the right wing as a result of
some of the spending.
So the former Oath Keepers
Secretary Bill Simmons, said
the last straw came for him in 2020
when he learned that Rhodes maxed
out his Oath Keepers credit card
three days in a row so he could go
around his $350 daily spending
limit to buy a $1000 AR-10 rifle.
I mean, can I just say, $350 a day
spending limit is insane,
that is a lot of money.
But it wasn't good enough,
It wasn't good enough he needed to
spend $1,000 on an AR10 rifle.
>> Yeah, he gets to protect against
the tyranny, yeah, with your money.
So, look, I don't shed a tear for
the people who donate it to these
folks and having their money
wasted, I think the PayPal/Stripe
thing is something you have to be
a little vigilant about.
I don't want that to slip and
I don't want it to get to a point
where it's not about violence or
illegal acts and PayPal says,
I don't like what you're saying I'm
going to cut you off.
That would be problematic,
it doesn't matter if I agree or
disagree with their political
opinions, right?
But in this case this groups have
demonstrated some violence and
has the cause for concern.
And Tarrio, look,
it is super hard when there he's
asking people to send in checks and
so he's just basically saying we're
pretty much done, right?
>> Right. >> And
in Canada they change their name.
>> Rebranding.
>> Rebranding, right? >> Just like
private prisons.
>> Yeah, apparently not that proud.
>> Defense contractors.
>> Remember Gavin McInnes who
started it and
then he abandoned them when he
couldn't get into his country club
anymore because of them, r >> Yes.
>> And these are I don't know,
Proud Boys what name, so and
then when it didn't work and
he couldn't get back into his
country club anyway, he came back
yeah, no, I'm proud, I'm not so,
these guys are all scammers, right?
>> Of course, yeah.
Look, I'm glad that they're broke,
I'm glad that they're disbanding,
it seems like they're disbanding.
But yeah, I look the main takeaway
and something that became I think
pretty brutally honest for
right wing voters,
is that whether you're talking
about these right wing militias or
literally Republican politicians,
they're looking to scam you.
I mean, Trump did it incessantly
even after he lost the election,
making his supporters think that
the donations coming in were
going to be spent on his court
battles to overturn the 2020
election, he used the vast majority
of that to fund his pack.
And I don't know, I feel like he's
probably going to do illegal things
with that money and find a way to
funnel it to himself personally.
>> No, but we already know, so
they haven't yet
proved that it's illegal, so
just keep it real on that.
Holding Trump accountable
has been apparently the hardest
thing in the world.
But yes, no, he has funneled giant
amounts of money to his properties
because he says, my campaign was
using them a lot and had to pay
them tons and tons of money because
of all the space we needed for
our couple of guys, right?
So he's already funneled that money
a tons of to himself >> Yeah.
>> But to be fair he wrote in
there, hey, sucker the first $5000
of what you're giving me I could
use for any purpose when it got
to the so called
Legal Defense Fund, >> Right.
>> Right? >> Right.
So you just pocket it, right?
And the first 5000?
The first 5000.
>> It's amazing.
>> Okay, so I think all these
groups have realized, Trump's
right, right wingers will fall for
anything.
Do you remember Duncan Hunter Jr,
he used campaign funds for
his mistresses.
And he said, we'll pretend we're
helping veterans and then he
used it for golf outings instead.
His pet bunny rabbit he paid for
a flight across the country to,
all with right wingers donation.
>> Animals are innocent.
>> Fooling and
his bunny are easily parted,
especially if they're right wing.