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Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders are now free via Trump pardonsMore than a dozen people identified by the previous administration as members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers and arrested for involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol Riot were pardoned this week by President Donald Trump.
The return of battle-hardened leaders ... will further radicalize and fuel recruitment platforms,” said Jacob Ware, a Council on Foreign Relations research fellow.
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Trump's pardons will embolden Proud Boys, other far-right groups, say experts
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Trump defends pardons for rioters and suggests Proud Boys could have place in politics
Jan. 6 defendants weren't the only controversial Trump pardon recipients this week
Trump's blanket pardon for Jan. 6 rioters isn't politically popular, it polls terribly. But he doesn’t care. Trump's a term-limited, 78-year-old man who already has what he wanted most, a get-out-of-jail-free card and a few more years of adoration.
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.
Rehl, a former leader of the Philly Proud Boys, had been sentenced to 15 years for seditious conspiracy. But after Trump commuted his sentence, he walked out of prison a free man.
Stewart Rhodes and Enrique Tarrio were among the most prominent January 6 defendants had received some of the harshest punishments.
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Far-right Oath Keepers, ex-Proud Boys leaders released after Trump pardonsStewart Rhodes and Enrique Tarrio, who received some of longest sentences for the US Capitol attack, freed from prison.
Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the far-right Proud Boys, was among nearly 1,600 January 6 defendants who were either pardoned or had their sentences commuted. He is expected to be in Miami by Tuesday afternoon.
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Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes leave prison after Trump commuted their Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy sentences.
Five of the Oath Keepers who had sentences commuted by the president -- including Rhodes, who was facing 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy -- were military veterans.
He issued formal pardons to more than 1,550 rioters charged with a wide range of crimes and commuted the sentences of 14 members of far-right groups.
D.C. judges blasted Trump's Jan. 6 pardons, denouncing rioters as "poor losers" and warning against whitewashing the violence and chaos of that day.
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