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Jon Schaffer, Iced Earth Guitarist and Jan. 6 Insurrectionist, Sentenced to Three Years Probation

Jon Schaffer, the Iced Earth guitarist who participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection in support of Donald Trump, has been sentenced.

Over the years, Schaffer, who founded the successful metal group Iced Earth, has made statements to the press supporting conservative government leaders and offering conspiracy theories about liberals. When he entered the Capitol, he was wearing a baseball cap bearing the legend “Oath Keepers Lifetime Member,” affiliating him with the ad-hoc militia group that claims to uphold the Constitution but whose founder, Stewart Rhodes, was found guilty in 2022 of seditious conspiracy regarding Jan. 6 and was sentenced to in May. On Nov. 14, 2020, a week after President Biden had won the election, Schaffer had attended the “Million MAGA March” with other Oath Keepers and had given an interview that day to a journalist, promising “a lot of bloodshed” if the country were “to merge into some globalist, communist system.”

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