Trump's mass pardons for rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol “will not change the truth of what happened” in the nation's capital four years ago, a federal judge wrote Wednesday.
Four years after they raided the Capitol and assaulted police officers, a group of some of the most violent Jan. 6 rioters are now free men.
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 highest-profile defendant of the Capitol riot from North Texas left prison after President Donald Trump granted clemency to hundreds of January 6 defendants.
Donald Trump supporters who attacked the U.S. Capitol four years ago are beginning to leave prison, after the newly installed president issued a sweeping pardon that signalled he intends to make aggressive use of his executive power.
Trump's blanket order came the same day that Joe Biden used the final minutes of his presidency to issue pre-emptive pardons for his brothers and sister, as well as members of the US House of Representatives committee whose investigation into the Capitol riot concluded Trump was to blame.
Former Proud Boys extremist group leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes have been released from prison after their lengthy sentences for seditious conspiracy convictions in the Jan.
Soon after being sworn-in on Monday, President Donald Trump signed a proclamation granting clemency to more than 1,500 charged in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection. It had long been expected that Trump would grant clemency to many Jan.
Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in May 2023 after a jury found him guilty of conspiring to stop the transfer of power and other charges. In September 2023, Tarrio, who asked Trump for a full pardon on the fourth anniversary of the insurrection, was sentenced to 22 years.
About 1,500 rioters who were involved in storming the U.S. Capitol in 2021 were granted pardons by President Donald Trump. Here’s what we know.
The far-right Oath Keepers extremist group founder serving 18 years for the Capitol riot visited Capitol Hill after President Trump freed him.
The highest-profile defendant of the Capitol riot from North Texas left prison after President Donald Trump granted clemency to hundreds of January 6 defendants.