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?
At least [in] the cases we looked at, these were people that actually love our country,’ Trump says of January 6 rioters
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.
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.
Rhodes and Tarrio were among the most prominent defendants from January 6 and had received some of the harshest punishments.
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,
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 had been convicted in one of the most serious cases prosecuted by the DOJ stemming from the January 6, 2021, riot.
A federal judge says President Donald Trump’s mass pardons for rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol won't change the truth of what happened in the nation’s capital four years ago.
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, the far-right extremist group leader convicted of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, has visited Capitol Hill after President Donald Trump commuted his 18-year prison sentence.
Now, the same people officers sought to hold accountable for storming the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to subvert democracy are free.