Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, newly freed from prison after President Donald Trump commuted their sentences for seditious conspiracy connected to the Jan. 6,
President Donald Trump pardoned all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol and commuted the sentences for 14.
Miamian Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boys chair, was pardoned by President Trump after he was convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 22 years in prison.
Two of the most high-profile defendents from the 2021 US Capitol riot were included in Trump's sweeping pardons.
Tarrio, 42, a Miami native, was serving a 22-year sentence after being convicted in May 2023 of seditious conspiracy.
Four years after they raided the Capitol and assaulted police officers, a group of some of the most violent Jan. 6 rioters are now free men.
Two prominent far-right extremists with central roles in the Capitol attack, Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys and Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers militia, have been set free.
President Trump commuted the sentences of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders convicted of sedition in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack – but Enrique Tarrio, national chairman of
Enrique Tarrio, the former chairman of the right-wing group known as the Proud Boys, returned to Miami Wednesday after receiving a pardon from President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot.
President Donald Trump plans to pardon people convicted for participation in the January 6 Capitol riot, which may include two of its organizers: Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers, and Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, ABC News reported Monday.