Trump wildly suggests Proud Boys, Oath Keepers might have a place in the ‘political conversation’
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‘At least [in] the cases we looked at, these were people that actually love our country,’ Trump says of January 6 rioters. President Donald Trump has suggested that far-right militias such as the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers may have a role to play in public life.
![[Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio had his 22-year sentence commuted by Trump - and has now called for retribution.]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/20/23/GettyImages-1162234167.jpg)
Trump was asked during a press conference in the Roosevelt Room on Tuesday if there’s room for the leaders of such groups in the political conversation. “We’ll have to see,” Trump said. “At least [in] the cases we looked at, these were people that actually love our country,” Trump added.
Tarrio appeared on Alex Jones’s InfoWars last night, just hours after leaving prison. “We went through hell — and I’m gonna tell you, it was worth it,” said Tarrio. “Because what we stood for … was what we’ve been fighting for, and what we saw yesterday on the inauguration stage.”.
He suggested that “people like” Pam Bondi, the nominee for attorney general, and Kash Patel, the nominee to lead the FBI, and the “rest of Trump’s cabinet” should “right all these wrongs … The people who did this, they need to feel the heat. They need to be put behind bars.”.
Several Republican senators attempted to avoid answering questions about the January 6 pardons and blamed former President Joe Biden for using the pardon power excessively. “We’re not looking backward we’re looking forwards,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune said, according to CBS. “I’ve said this before — Biden laid forth the most massive use of the pardon power that we’ve seen in history.”.
