Go Fund Yourself! The Public Isn’t Interested in Paying Top Oath Keeper’s Jan. 6 Legal Bills

In our crowd-funded age, one might assume that being the founder of a nearly 40,000 member militia would confer advantages when it comes to raising cash online.

But for Stewart Rhodes — the Oath Keepers honcho charged with leading a seditious conspiracy to block, by force, the transfer of power from Donald Trump to president Joe Biden — appeals for help funding his legal defense fund have gone all but unanswered.

Rhodes was indicted just after the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurgency, and since Jan. 31 a banner headline at the top of the OathKeepers.org homepage has linked to a GiveSendGo account for the “Stewart Rhodes Legal Defense Fund.” The page seeks to raise $250,000 on the militia founder’s behalf.

But Rhodes has not caught fire as a cause célèbre for his erstwhile followers. Through April 12, the fundraiser had collected less than $12,000 — from fewer than 200 contributors — securing less than 5 percent of its target. (GiveSendGo is the Christian analog of GoFundMe, and also counts clicks of prayer; Rhodes had received a humble 322.)

Rats are jumping off the sinking ship.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/fund-yourself-public-isn-t-133137235.html