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.
After receiving a pardon from President Trump, Gabriel Garcia cut off his ankle monitor at a watch party in Doral.
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.
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,
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?
Never in a million years” did he think that Mr Trump would set every January 6th “hostage” free. All but 14 leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, a militia, who breached the Capitol building, were granted full pardons.
Forty-seven-year-old David Moerschel, of Punta Gorda, is one of the 14 people whose sentences were commuted by President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump's action paved the way for the release of extremist group leaders convicted in major conspiracy cases, as well as people who violently attacked law enforcement officers defending the Capitol.
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 extraordinary pardons and commutations extended to those who committed both violent and nonviolent crimes on Jan. 6, including assaulting police officers and seditious conspiracy.
A federal judge says President Donald Trump’s mass pardons for rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol won't change the truth of what happened in the nation’s capital four years ago.