Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys group who received a 22-year sentence for seditious conspiracy related to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol in 2021, has formally asked Donald Trump for a pardon.
A jury convicted Tarrio of helping to orchestrate the insurrection. At the time of the attack, Tarrio had been banned from the city by prosectors for burning a stolen banner from a historic Black church in December 2020 during a protest march against Trump’s election loss.
In his pardon request, Tarrio claims he was targeted unfairly by the Biden administration. Trump has promised full pardons for January 6 rioters as soon as he takes office.
It’ll be interesting to see if he pardons them on the way in or the way out.
I’m guessing in. He has nothing to lose.
Maybe someone should remind Trump that these guys are losers who got captured and made him look bad. The thing is, he’s awfully easy to manipulate. If enough people start talking about pardoning the losers, he’d probably drop the idea like a hot potato.
Not really. He kinda decides that himself. Making him think that giving them pardons means he (Trump) is weak or being controlled would have a better chance.
President Musk might veto it.
