The leaders of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers were both freed from long sentences by President Donald Trump. Who are they? And what are their groups?
The return of battle-hardened leaders ... will further radicalize and fuel recruitment platforms,” said Jacob Ware, a Council on Foreign Relations research fellow.
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.
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.
The Philly Proud Boys leader serving a 15-year sentence in federal prison is set to be released after a pardon from Trump.
Until President Trump’s pardon, Enrique Tarrio was serving a 22-year prison term, the longest sentence handed down to any of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with Jan. 6.
President Donald Trump is spending his first full day back in the White House meeting with congressional leaders, announcing an investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure and demonstrating one of his favored expressions of power: firing people.
Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes leave prison after Trump commuted their Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy sentences.
While his first day was eventful - with the pomp of the inauguration and the theatre of signing dozens of executive orders live on stage - the second was equally consequential