The Home Choose Committee to Examine the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol held its seventh public listening to right this moment (July 12). Through the listening to, Jason Van Tatenhove, a former spokesperson for the far-right group Oath Keepers, wore a Descendents T-shirt — and the band just isn’t having it.
Pictures and clips from the listening to have gone viral on the web all through the day that present Van Tatenhove carrying the shirt, which extra particularly commemorates the punk rockers’ fifth studio album The whole lot Sucks.
“Daring transfer carrying a Descendents The whole lot Sucks shirt to the January 6 listening to,” a consumer on Twitter wrote. They then made a parody of the band’s album Milo Goes to Faculty, writing, “Milo goes to Congress,” and one other consumer identified that he additionally sported a pin that includes the emblem from Deftones’ White Pony.
Descendents, in flip, posted a quick assertion relating to the matter on their social media.
“We fully disavow teams just like the Oath Keepers and on no account condone their hateful ideology,” they wrote.
Oath Keepers are one of many militia teams that have been chargeable for the assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, along with the Proud Boys and Three Percenters. In accordance with The Hill, Van Tatenhove bought concerned with the Oath Keepers in 2014. He basically turned their publicist and social media supervisor for 2 years earlier than strolling away from the group as a result of he wasn’t allowed to jot down about matters that chief Stewart Rhodes did not agree with, together with expressing assist for the 2015 Supreme Courtroom to legalize same-sex marriage.
“I had these grand intentions that I used to be going to jot down my break-out novel, however what wound up taking place is I simply turned a propagandist for them,” Van Tatenhove informed the Denver Publish. “I failed that inner mission fairly fantastically.”
He was summoned as a witness to testify through the listening to and “give a historic perspective on the group,” however claimed that he “purged [his] lifetime of that world years in the past.” [via NPR].
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