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.
Pardoned Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio has been pictured for the first time since being freed from his 22-year sentence for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot — calling for those behind the mass convictions to “feel the heat” and “pay for what they did.
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.
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 of the most high-profile defendents from the 2021 US Capitol riot were included in Trump's sweeping pardons.
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.
Donald Trump described the imprisoned January 6 rioters as "hostages" and ordered that all pending criminal cases against Capitol riot defendants be dropped.
Trump kicked off his second presidential term by pardoning Jan.6 rioters, and signed executive orders on TikTok and immigration.
The order grants a “full, complete and unconditional pardon” to all but 14 defendants convicted in connection with the riot and directs the Justice Department to immediately begin working to ...