Wife of the leader of Oaf Creepers is asking for $30,000 in donations to help her divorce

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The estranged wife of the leader of the far-right extremist group the Oath Keepers has launched a GoFund Me page to help pay for her divorce, BuzzFeed reported this week.

Tasha Adams, 48, is asking for $30,000 in donations to pay off overdue legal bills and hire a new attorney to complete her divorce from Stewart Rhodes, which has been pending for more than three years.

"It's certainly not easy to find a lawyer willing to go head to head against a person who is not only a graduate of Yale Law but also commands their own private army, as well as having access to a team of equally infamous attorneys surrounding him," Adams wrote on the GoFundMe. "Nonetheless, I am confident that somewhere out there is an advocate willing to be my huckleberry."

Adams also said that she had been dropped as a client from her former law firm because she couldn't pay them. She said she had felt encouraged to ask for the funds after Rhodes and his group were thrust into the national spotlight following the deadly Capitol riots.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/wife-leader-oath-keepers-asking-105550909.html

[Aristus]

1. Sorry, honey.

You married the guy. Get out of it on your own dime...

[Hotler]

2. I have a couple of leather belts you could fashion in to bootstraps if that helps. nt

[KS Toronado]

3. Another reQublican begging for money, sorry I only donate to Democratic causes.

You should have saved some of the money from your Qrump tax break.

[Jirel]

4. Nope.

You married a psycho, which strongly suggests you’re a psycho. Good luck.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. NO! You got yourself into this mess all by yourself, get yourself out. There a lot of other

people far more deserving of that $30K in donations than the likes of you. You creep, go away.

Most of us that go through a divorce pay our own way ... and not ask utter strangers for donations. So much for welfare babies and such, eh? Hypocrite...

[dalton99a]

6. Need more guns. Please send $30,000 ASAP

[taxi]

7. Infamous lawyers! You can't make this stuff up.

Well maybe you can. From the film Cat Ballou -

Cat Ballou: They're trying to drive him off his ranch! They put manure in his well, they made him talk to lawyers

[Thatgirltasha]

8. Ahh the old "Why didn't I leave sooner?"

Umm - I mean . When should I have left him?
It's pretty easy to be in a safe place and talk about about what an idiot an abused wife is for "letting" herself become abused.

I planned the escape for about 3-4 years. I left him in Feb, 2018. I was living in the middle of the woods, with no vehicle- no cell services and a gun pointed at me whenever I tried to walk outside.

I was completely isolated from all family.

Here is the other problem ; the police were his friends, the judge is a super republican, my restrainer order denied.
When I finally borrowed a car to make the grand escape the police told me to go back to my husband.

He is a yale law graduate. ANd made it clear if I ever left - he would use that degree to take the kids from me. He held all power.
I had no access to money or transportation.

Only when my oldest kids were able to leave the house could I get out.
THe reason for my money raising is first of all why not? It doesn't harm anyone. People want to hear the story. THey want to read the horrible humiliating, gross details of my life - the sexual abuse, the physical abuse to laugh at to make snarky comments about how stupid abused wives are.

Usually when your life is a public spectacle people generally pay for that kind of content. So why not .? Why not say, feel free to donate; then laugh.

With his precious yale law degree he was able to draw out the legal process until I owed $14,000 in legal bills; with no divorce, no assets to divide, no child support, in fact not even a child support order that is required for any kind of aid.

If it had just been my life I would have left many years earlier but it wasn't . My kids lives were at stake.

I certainly didn't come here to ask for donations but I do want to point out that otherizing victims of abuse is a slippery slope. If I didn't know better I would have thought this was a thread full of republicans making fun of domestic abuse.

[gopiscrap]

9. welcome to DU