Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio calls for retribution in chilling interview with Alex Jones hours after prison release
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‘We need to find and put them behind bars for what they did. They need to pay for what they did,’ Enrique Tarrio exclaimed on Tuesday night, referencing those who investigated the January 6 Capitol attack. However, in one of his first acts after returning to the White House, Trump announced that he was issuing blanket pardons to almost every January 6 defendant, including Tarrio. Trump also commuted the sentences of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes – who was also convicted of seditious conspiracy and serving 18 years in jail — and 13 other members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys.
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The sweeping pardons, which included at least 600 people charged with assaulting or resisting law enforcement, came after Vice President JD Vance assured the public that “if you committed violence that day,” clemency wouldn’t be given. “These are the hostages,” Trump said in issuing the pardons. “These people have been destroyed. What they’ve done to these people is outrageous. There’s rarely been anything like in the history of our country.”.
“I’d like to thank again President Donald J. Trump for helping us through these difficult times and releasing me, Joe Biggs, Ethan Nordean, Zachary Rehl, and Dominic Pezzola. Right? And all the J6ers,” he declared. Biggs, Rehl and Nordean were all convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to at least 15 years in prison. Pezzola was the only co-defendant who did not receive a seditious conspiracy conviction and was sentenced to 10 years in jail. All of them had their sentences commuted by Trump, who said he would continue to review their cases to see if they also deserved full pardons.
