Emails leaked in 2021 revealed that Sheriff Chad Bianco was a dues-paying member of the Oath Keepers since at least 2014.
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Behind the BastardsOct 3, 2026
The record strongly supports that leaked Oath Keepers data, reported in 2021, showed Bianco as a dues-paying member in 2014, and he acknowledged it. Read as 'since at least 2014' meaning continuous membership from 2014 onward, the claim is contradicted: sources say he paid for a one-year membership in 2014 and did not renew it.
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… Last Thursday, the California Supreme Court ruled that Sheriff Chad Bianco violated state election law by seizing 650,000 ballots for the Prop 50 special election on redistricting as a part of his quote unquote election fraud investigation. Now, I think it's worth noting that emails leaked in 2021 revealed that Sheriff Chad Bianco was a dues paying member of the Oath Keepers since at least 2014, and in a debate earlier this year during the sheriff's unsuccessful bid to be the Republican nominee for governor, Bianco said he was proud of his affiliation with the Oath Keepers. "We are an Oath Keeper. We all know that, and I'm very proud of it." …
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Contradicts. Bianco said he joined for a single year in 2014 and did not continue, and the LA Times reports he has not been a member since 2014. This contradicts a reading of 'since at least 2014' as ongoing membership.[1][2][3]
Supports. Multiple 2021 outlets report that the leaked Oath Keepers records showed Bianco was a dues-paying member in 2014, and Bianco acknowledged the affiliation.[1][4][5]
Context. The leak was published by Distributed Denial of Secrets and first surfaced through a tweet by J.J. MacNab, a George Washington University fellow, in early October 2021, so the 2021 timing is consistent with the sources.[1][4][6]
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- 1Riverside County sheriff was once a member of Oath Keepers ...latimes.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports, context
- 2Sheriff Bianco acknowledges former membership in Oath Keepersidyllwildtowncrier.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 3Chad Bianco - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 4Riverside County sheriff acknowledges he was dues-paying member of Oath Keepersdailynews.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 5Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco paid for a year-long ...businessinsider.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco: He Took an Oath - VOICEtheievoice.com · not rated · cited for: context
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