In a move long-awaited by MAGA, President Donald Trump triumphantly returned to the Oval Office on Monday evening and immediately signed pardons for 1,500 J6 defendants.
🚨 #BREAKING: TRUMP pardons ~1,500 JAN. 6. Defendant. pic.twitter.com/Jm2mFTcA0n
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 21, 2025
Trump once again sat behind the Resolute Desk and addressed the assembled media to tell them about the pardons:
There are a few commutations there that we are investigating further.
After recognizing a familiar face in the crowd, he scratched his signature on the mass pardon and continued:
So this is a large deal. We hope they come out [of prison] Tonight, honestly.
They expect it.
When asked by a reporter how many people were included in the pardons, Trump replied: “About 1,500 people. Six conversions.” [Note: According to the White House website, the actual number of commutations is fourteen.]
Regarding any cases he may not have deemed appropriate for a commutation or pardon, the president said: “We’re looking at that. We’re looking at different things. But the conversions would be the ones we’re looking at, and maybe they’ll stay that way.
News of the pardon spread quickly on social media. It appears that one of the soon-to-be-released J6ers is Enrique Tarrio, a former member of the Proud Boys who was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison in 2023.
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
Enrique Tarrio is now leaving prison!!!
Thanks to President Donald Trump, he is a free man!
I’ll be sitting down exclusively with him on Louder with Crowder @scrowder!
Follow Tarrio’s X-Page @NobleOne !!
— Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) January 20, 2025
Tarrio’s mother, Duarte Tarrio, said she spoke with her son Monday. insightful his thoughts on his upcoming pardon and release: “He’s very excited. It’s surreal for him. He is ready to go.
RedState has reported on Tarrio’s plight after J6.
Tarrio was convicted of seditious conspiracy based on the controversial legal theory of “implicit conspiracy,” which defense attorneys likened to telepathy during closing arguments.
Finally, DOJ Attorney Connor Mulroe told the jury:
A conspiracy can be unspoken, implicit. A wink and a nod.
Although Tarrio did not witness the attack on the Capitol, he received the longest prison sentence of any of the January 6 defendants – 22 years. Federal prosecutors appealed the verdict and argued for a 33-year prison sentence despite his absence.
Trump has long promised to issue mass pardons for convicted J6 supporters upon his return to office, but as RedState’s Bob Hoge reported on Sunday, he encountered some interference from Republican colleagues like House Speaker Mike Johnson, who argued pardons should will not be granted to those who have attacked law enforcement.
Undeterred by the resistance, Trump continued with his plan as soon as he returned to the Oval Office. Trump was certainly encouraged by the fact that his predecessor, Joe Biden, tore standards and norms to shreds by pardoning his son Hunter and various other family members. Pardon-Palooza was on.
Officially, President Trump commuted the sentences of Proud Boys and Oath Keeper members issued “a full, complete and unconditional pardon of all other persons convicted of offenses related to events that occurred in or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021” for other defendants. Or, as Trump has called them in the past, J6 “hostages.”
Here is the one Full text of official commutations and pardons by the White House:
A PROCLAMATION
This proclamation ends a grave national injustice inflicted on the American people over the past four years and begins a process of national reconciliation.
Pursuant to the authority provided by Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution of the United States, I hereby declare:
(a) Commute the sentences of the following persons convicted of offenses relating to events that occurred in or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, to sentences beginning on January 20, 2025:
• Stewart Rhodes
• Kelly Meggs
• Kenneth Harrelson
• Thomas Caldwell
•Jessica Watkins
• Roberto Minuta
• Edward Vallejo
• David Moerschel
•Joseph Hackett
• Ethan Nordean
•Joseph Biggs
• Zachary Rehl
• Dominic Pezzola
• Jeremy Bertino
(b) grant a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other persons convicted of offenses relating to events in or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021;
The Attorney General shall administer and cause the immediate issuance of certificates of pardon to all persons described in paragraph (b) above and shall ensure that all persons convicted of offenses relating to events occurring on January 6th in or near the The events that occurred at the United States Capitol in 2021, who are currently in prison, will be released immediately. The Bureau of Prisons must promptly implement any instructions from the Department of Justice regarding this policy.
I am also directing the Attorney General to seek, without prejudice to the Government, the dismissal of all pending charges against individuals for their conduct relating to the events at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. The Bureau of Prisons will promptly implement any instructions from the Department of Justice regarding this policy.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereby laid down my hand
on the twentieth day of January in the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty-five, and in the year of the Independence of the United States of America on the two hundred and forty-ninth.
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