Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes leave prison after Trump commuted their Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy sentences.
Trump's actions were the latest step in his drive to overhaul Washington and erase the work of President Joe Biden's administration.
Stewart Rhodes, the former head of the Oath Keepers militia, was among Jan. 6 inmates freed under President Trump's pardons and commutations.
The founder of the right-wing 'Oath Keepers' militia, who himself was recently had his 18-year- prison sentence commuted, appeared outside of D.C.'s Central Det
The return of battle-hardened leaders ... will further radicalize and fuel recruitment platforms,” said Jacob Ware, a Council on Foreign Relations research fellow.
Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the anti-government group the Oath Keepers, said it was a “good day for America” when President Trump pardoned him and other Jan. 6 defendants on Monday. “I think
A federal judge in Washington on Friday sentenced Kellye SoRelle, a top lawyer for the Oath Keepers militia group, to 12 months in prison for her involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, and Enrique Tarrio, former leader of the Proud Boys, have been released from prison after their lengthy sentences for seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.
The move, in effect, validated the far-right leader’s defiant claim that his criminal prosecution was a kind of political persecution.
Rhodes and Tarrio were among the most prominent defendants from January 6 and had received some of the harshest punishments.
President Donald Trump on his first full day in office Tuesday defended his decision to grant clemency to people convicted of assaulting police officers during the 2021 attack on the Capitol and suggested there could be a place in American politics for the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers,