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.
After receiving a pardon from President Trump, Gabriel Garcia cut off his ankle monitor at a watch party in Doral.
Just hours after his swearing-in ceremony on Monday, President Donald Trump pardoned the more than 1,500 people charged in connection to to the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The pardons and commuted sentences were extended to members and leaders of far-right groups,
President Donald Trump pardoned all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol and commuted the sentences for 14.
The extraordinary pardons and commutations extended to those who committed both violent and nonviolent crimes on Jan. 6, including assaulting police officers and seditious conspiracy.
Forty-seven-year-old David Moerschel, of Punta Gorda, is one of the 14 people whose sentences were commuted by President Donald Trump.
Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders call for investigation of prosecutors. Judges say history will remember their record of Jan. 6 Capitol riot and 2020 election.
Just one day after being released from prison, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes showed up on Capitol Hill in a blue Trump hat. Rhodes was serving an 18-year sentence for a seditious conspiracy conviction for his role in the Jan. 6 riots, but his sentence was commuted by Trump on Monday.
The implications are clear,” said Julian Zelizer, a Princeton University historian. “Trump will go to great lengths to protect those who act in his name. This is the culmination
The leaders of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers were both freed from long sentences by President Donald Trump. Who are they? And what are their groups?
Stewart Rhodes was serving an 18-year prison sentence for seditious conspiracy when he was freed by President Trump.