At least [in] the cases we looked at, these were people that actually love our country,’ Trump says of January 6 rioters
Tuesday as the leaders of two extremist groups who played outsize roles in the Capitol attack walked out of federal prisons after serving a fraction of their sentences for seditious conspiracy.Trump called the conspirators’ sentences “ridiculous and excessive,
Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers who played a significant role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, reportedly returned to the scene of the crime on Wednesday. Several Capitol Hill reporters spotted Rhodes at a Dunkin' in the Longworth House Office Building,
Rhodes and Tarrio were among the most prominent defendants from January 6 and had received some of the harshest punishments.
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.
Oath Keepers' Rhodes, convicted of sedition for Jan. 6 attack, visits Capitol Hill after clemency and meets lawmakers.
President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned more than 1,000 people charged in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, and commuted the sentences of leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
Rhodes’ appearance came the day after he was released from prison as a result of Trump’s order of clemency benefitting the more than 1,500 people charged with federal crimes in the Jan. 6
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes says he felt relief when he heard President Donald Trump was taking action to pardon him and other Jan. 6 defendants.
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.
Five of the Oath Keepers who had sentences commuted by the president on Monday -- including Rhodes, who was facing 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy -- were military veterans.