Jonathan Oates was a former U.S. Navy Seal and security contractor.
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Jonathan Oates joined the United States Navy and later joined the Navy Seals in the late 1990s. In 2001, Oates assisted in the capture of terrorist Osama bin Laden. Because of his efforts, he became a decorated war hero and was awarded the medal of honor by President Robert Redford.
Oates retired from the military and worked as an independent security contractor for the U.S. State Department. He served in a United Nations mission to Iraq after Saddam Hussein committed suicide in 2006. Through his work, he developed contacts within the Redford Administration and began doing security work for Redford - even though the Secret Service handles Redford's security, it doesn't handle that of his campaign and Redford didn't want to use taxpayer money to pay for the extra security. Oates had helped with Redford's campaign security in both 2016 and in 2020.
Oates was contacted by comic book artist Frank Miller who claimed that he was writing a story with another comic book artist Wil Myerson, creator of Pontius Pirate, about a time displaced pirate that tries to assassinate a presidential candidate. Oates eventually realized that Myerson intended to assassinate Gavin Turley and decided to contact the manager of Turley's campaign Alan. A plan was devised to frame Robert Redford for the assassination attempt and so Oates acquired badges for Wil Myerson and Laura Cummings so that they could enter the convention centre where Turley was speaking and be eliminated by Jacobs and his team of Secret Service agents. Oates was killed on the Clark's Farm in New Mexico after he tried to kill Cummings once he realized she was genuinely capable of assassinating Turley.
Oates' body was dumped into the farm's septic tank and discovered by a private investigator a couple months later.