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.
Rehl, a former leader of the Philly Proud Boys, had been sentenced to 15 years for seditious conspiracy. But after Trump commuted his sentence, he walked out of prison a free man.
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.
Stewart Rhodes and Enrique Tarrio, who received some of longest sentences for the US Capitol attack, freed from prison.
Rhodes and Tarrio were among the most prominent defendants from January 6 and had received some of the harshest punishments.
Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes leave prison after Trump commuted their Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy sentences.
A federal judge who oversaw Jan. 6 cases pushed back against President Trump’s sweeping pardons Wednesday, refusing to close two rioters’ cases in a manner that would prevent charges
Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys and Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers asserted that they wanted President Trump to seek revenge on their behalf for being prosecuted in connection with the Jan. 6 riot.
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio talked to reporters at Dallas Love Field after being released from prison in Louisiana.
At least [in] the cases we looked at, these were people that actually love our country,’ Trump says of January 6 rioters