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.
President Donald Trump is spending his first full day back in the White House meeting with congressional leaders, making an infrastructure announcement and demonstrating one of his favored expressions of power: firing people.
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.
Tarrio, 42, a Miami native, was serving a 22-year sentence after being convicted in May 2023 of seditious conspiracy.
Rhodes and Tarrio were among the most prominent defendants from January 6 and had received some of the harshest punishments.
Enrique Tarrio, the now-former leader of the neo-fascist Proud Boys gang convicted on treason-related charges after fuelling a mob on January 6, is set to be released from federal prison following Donald Trump ’s expected clemency order.
The Philly Proud Boys leader serving a 15-year sentence in federal prison is set to be released after a pardon from Trump.
Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes leave prison after Trump commuted their Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy sentences.
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.
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Pro-Trump supporters clash with law enforcement at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Credit - Kent Nishimura—Los Angeles Times via The first 24 hours of Donald Trump’s second term reflected what his supporters hoped for and his detractors feared: a willingness to follow through on some of his most radical and divisive ideas.