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.
Five of the Oath Keepers who had sentences commuted by the president on Monday -- including Rhodes, who was facing 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy -- were military veterans.
Rhodes and Tarrio were among the most prominent defendants from January 6 and had received some of the harshest punishments.
Stewart Rhodes and Enrique Tarrio, who received some of longest sentences for the US Capitol attack, freed from prison.
Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in May 2023 after a jury found him guilty of conspiring to stop the transfer of power and other charges. In September 2023, Tarrio, who asked Trump for a full pardon on the fourth anniversary of the insurrection, was sentenced to 22 years.
President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned more than 1,000 people charged in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, and commuted the sentences of leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes leave prison after Trump commuted their Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy sentences.
Former Proud Boys extremist group leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes have been released from prison after their lengthy sentences for seditious conspiracy convictions in the Jan.
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio were released from prison on Tuesday, this coming after President Trump granted pardons to more than 1,
At least six people with ties to the Triad are covered by President Donald Trump’s sweeping pardon of individuals involved in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. The refugee agency “will cease operations and close the ICF Greensboro Children’s Center as of April 1, 2025,” according to the email.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) defended President Trump’s sweeping pardons of those who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, including numerous people who violently attacked police officers. “The