The return of battle-hardened leaders ... will further radicalize and fuel recruitment platforms,” said Jacob Ware, a Council on Foreign Relations research fellow.
The move, in effect, validated the far-right leader’s defiant claim that his criminal prosecution was a kind of political persecution.
Rhodes and Tarrio were among the most prominent defendants from January 6 and had received some of the harshest punishments.
Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the anti-government group the Oath Keepers, said it was a “good day for America” when President Trump pardoned him and other Jan. 6 defendants on Monday. “I think
A federal judge in Washington on Friday sentenced Kellye SoRelle, a top lawyer for the Oath Keepers militia group, to 12 months in prison for her involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Leaders of far-right militia groups and other US Capitol rioters who were convicted of violently assaulting police were freed from prison overnight by President Donald Trump’s mass pardons and commutations,
Two years ago, William Sarsfield was arrested by the FBI, detained and convicted of felony and misdemeanour charges for his role in the Capitol riot of Jan 6...
Two of the most high-profile defendents from the 2021 US Capitol riot were included in Trump's sweeping pardons.
The newly freed founder of the anti-government group the Oath Keepers stood outside the D.C. jail early Tuesday, awaiting the release of Jan. 6 defendants after President Donald Trump issued sweeping pardons,
On his first day in office, the president also ordered acting Attorney General James McHenry to dismiss the remaining Jan. 6 cases, including against people who assaulted police during the attack on the U.
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.