The leaders of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers were both freed from long sentences by President Donald Trump. Who are they? And what are their groups?
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.
Rhodes and Tarrio were among the most prominent defendants from January 6 and had received some of the harshest punishments.
Stewart Rhodes, the former head of the Oath Keepers militia, was among Jan. 6 inmates freed under President Trump's pardons and commutations.
More than 1,600 people charged or sent to prison for their roles in the insurrection at the Capitol four years ago are now walking free thanks to an executive order signed by President Donald Trump.
Two prominent far-right extremists with central roles in the Capitol attack, Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys and Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers militia, have been set free.
The white supremacist group’s march in Washington was its first in the city since the Capitol attack four years ago.
Rioters locked up for their roles in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack have been released, while judges have begun dismissing dozens of pending cases after President Donald Trump’s sweeping grant of clemency to all 1,
President Donald Trump granted clemency on Monday to around 1,500 people convicted of crimes related to their participation in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.
Sutton was convicted in September 2024 of second-degree murder, conspiracy to obstruct and obstruction of justice and sentenced to 5 ½ years in prison. The same jury convicted Zabavsky of conspiracy to obstruct and obstruction of justice and he was sentenced to 4 years. Both were free on appeal.
President Donald Trump on Monday issued a sweeping clemency order, granting pardons to almost all of the more than 1,500 defendants who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 and issuing sentence commutations to 14 others.