On his first day back in office, the president pardoned or commuted the sentences of those convicted over their roles in the January 6, 2021, riot.
Tarrio, 42, a Miami native, was serving a 22-year sentence after being convicted in May 2023 of seditious conspiracy.
A day after U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping grant of clemency to all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, America’s far-right celebrated. Some called for the death of judges who oversaw the trials.
In 2018, the FBI labeled the Proud Boys an extremist group with white nationalism ties. Who are they and should they have been released from prison?
We need to find and put them behind bars for what they did. They need to pay for what they did,’ Enrique Tarrio exclaimed on Tuesday night, referencing those who investigated the January 6 Capitol attack.
President Donald Trump has defended his decision to pardon people convicted of assaulting police officers during the attack on the Capitol and suggests there could be a place in U.S. politics for the Proud Boys extremist group,
Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes leave prison after Trump commuted their Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy sentences.
The Philly Proud Boys leader serving a 15-year sentence in federal prison is set to be released after a pardon from Trump.
Rhodes and Tarrio were two of the highest-profile defendants Jan. 6 defendants and received some of the harshest punishments in what became the largest investigation in Justice Department history. Their attorneys confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday they had been released hours after Trump pardoned,
At least [in] the cases we looked at, these were people that actually love our country,’ Trump says of January 6 rioters
The red MAGA hat has transformed into a symbol of the country’s willingness to absorb almost anything — any lie, any grievance — into a new, sour normal.