Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio has officially asked President-elect Donald Trump to pardon him for his seditious conspiracy crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. According to Politico, Tarrio is asking Trump to pardon him, claiming that the Biden administration targeted him for his political views rather than for his alleged involvement in planning the Capitol attack. In May 2023, Tarrio, along with three other members of the organization were convicted of a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6. after Donald Trump...

WASHINGTON — Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys chairman who is serving 22 years in federal prison after he was convicted of seditious conspiracy in relation to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, is asking President-elect Donald Trump for a presidential pardon. Nayib Hassan, Tarrio’s lawyer, wrote a letter to Trump on the fourth anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack asking for “a full and complete Presidential Pardon” from the president-elect who has vowed to pardon some rioters after he takes office on Jan. 20. In the letter, Hassan called...

A lawyer for the former leader of the Proud Boys has asked President-elect Trump to consider issuing him a “full and complete” pardon for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. Nayib Hassan, who represents Enrique Tarrio, wrote in a Jan. 6 letter to Trump that the ex-Proud Boys national chairman was targeted by the Biden administration for his political views. Tarrio is currently serving a 22-year sentence after he was convicted of seditious conspiracy for his role in a plot to subvert the 2020 presidential election results...

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed pardons for the nonviolent Jan. 6 protesters, and the man who received the lengthiest sentence of all — 22 years for seditious conspiracy — Enrique Tarrio is asking for a full pardon come Jan. 20. "No, we haven't heard from the transition team at this point — I don't think we expected that; we do expect President Trump to — you know, his words are in our hearts — so, I know that he's going to do the right thing for us," Zuny Tarrio, Enrique...

The most notorious of all Jan. 6 defendants — former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio — has formally asked President-elect Donald Trump to pardon him for his seditious conspiracy conviction related to the attack on the Capitol. Tarrio was convicted by a jury of helping orchestrate the attack on the Capitol, even though he was banished from the city by prosecutors that day for his role in burning a stolen Black Lives Matter banner. U.S. District Judge Tim Kelly, a Trump appointee, sentenced Tarrio to 22 years in prison, the...