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By Matt Shuham
June 17, 2019 1:26 pm
“We Build The Wall,” the private GoFundMe-powered border wall project, made its outreach to armed right-wing groups even more explicit over the weekend.

In a cell phone video live-streamed Saturday, “Foreman Mike,” a motormouthed spokesperson for the group, gave a tour to a man wearing a black eyepatch and cowboy hat: Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of Oath Keepers, an anti-government group oriented toward veterans and first responders.

Oath Keepers is perhaps best known for its members’ armed patrols on the rooftops of Ferguson, Missouri during the protests of the police killing of Mike Brown and subsequent non-indictment of officer Darren Wilson. Rhodes has since found a partner in We Build The Wall (WBTW).

“We’re going to have a ceremony here, we’d like any of our Oath Keeper friends to come on in, any of our Three Percenter brothers, all of them. More than welcome to come in for a question and answer period,” Mike told Rhodes at one point, as the Oath Keepers leader filmed his own video.

Rhodes was sold. “They’re going to do the official flag-raising next week, that’s the 24th, 25th and 26th. So I’ll be here for that, absolutely it would be an honor to be here,” he said in a separate live-streamed video posted to the Oath Keepers Facebook page Saturday.

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