President Donald Trump has defended his decision to pardon people convicted of assaulting police officers during the attack on the Capitol and suggests there could be a place in U.S. politics for the Proud Boys extremist group,

A day after U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping grant of clemency to all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, America’s far-right celebrated. Some called for the death of judges who oversaw the trials.

Tarrio, 42, a Miami native, was serving a 22-year sentence after being convicted in May 2023 of seditious conspiracy.

Proud Boys leader Henry "Enrique" Tarrio, who was recently freed from prison after being pardoned by President Donald Trump, believes that those who investigated the attacks on the U.S. Capitol that occurred on January 6,

On his first day back in office, the president pardoned or commuted the sentences of those convicted over their roles in the January 6, 2021, riot.

Miamian Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boys chair, was pardoned by President Trump after he was convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 22 years in prison.

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.

On his first full day in office, President Donald Trump defended his decision to pardon people convicted of assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and suggested there could be a place in US politics for the Proud Boys extremist group.

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.

Proud Boys' former top leader Enrique Tarrio returned to Miami Wednesday after being released from prison in Donald Trump's mass pardon of rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol four years ago. (AP vide

The Philly Proud Boys leader serving a 15-year sentence in federal prison is set to be released after a pardon from Trump.