Rhodes and Tarrio were among the most prominent defendants from January 6 and had received some of the harshest punishments.

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, and Enrique Tarrio, former leader of the Proud Boys, have been released from prison after their lengthy sentences for seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The former leader of the Proud Boys and the founder of the Oath Keepers have been released from prison after their lengthy sentences for seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol were wiped away by a sweeping order from President Donald Trump benefiting more than 1,500 defendants.

The move, in effect, validated the far-right leader’s defiant claim that his criminal prosecution was a kind of political persecution.

President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned more than 1,000 people charged in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, and commuted the sentences of leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes says he felt relief when he heard President Donald Trump was taking action to pardon him and other Jan. 6 defendants.

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio were released from prison on Tuesday, this coming after President Trump granted pardons to more than 1,

Tarrio and Rhodes, along with over 1,500 other people, were pardoned for their involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot

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.

Following Trump's executive action, two people who pleaded guilty for their actions at the Capitol that day have spoken out against their pardons.

Michael Fanone, a former DC police officer who was attacked during the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, joins CNN’s Pamela Brown to react to Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes’s comments about January 6th after President Trump commuted Rhodes’ prison sentence.