The Home Choose Committee to Examine the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol held its seventh public listening to as we speak (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 shouldn’t be having it.
Pictures and clips from the listening to have gone viral on the web all through the day that present Van Tatenhove sporting the shirt, which extra particularly commemorates the punk rockers’ fifth studio album All the things Sucks.
“Daring transfer sporting a Descendents All the things Sucks shirt to the January 6 listening to,” a person on Twitter wrote. They then made a parody of the band’s album Milo Goes to School, writing, “Milo goes to Congress,” and one other person identified that he additionally sported a pin that includes the emblem from Deftones’ White Pony.
Descendents, in flip, posted a short assertion relating to the matter on their social media.
“We fully disavow teams just like the Oath Keepers and by no means condone their hateful ideology,” they wrote.
Oath Keepers are one of many militia teams that had been liable for the assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, along with the Proud Boys and Three Percenters. In response to The Hill, Van Tatenhove bought concerned with the Oath Keepers in 2014. He basically grew to become 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 write down about subjects that chief Stewart Rhodes did not agree with, together with expressing help for the 2015 Supreme Courtroom to legalize same-sex marriage.
“I had these grand intentions that I used to be going to write down my break-out novel, however what wound up taking place is I simply grew to become a propagandist for them,” Van Tatenhove advised the Denver Submit. “I failed that inside mission fairly fantastically.”
He was summoned as a witness to testify throughout 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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