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(145,066 posts) Mon Jan 6, 2025, 04:16 PM Monday

Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio asks Trump for pardon

Source: ABC News

January 6, 2025, 2:13 PM

The former leader of the Proud Boys -- a group prosecutors say was central to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 -- is asking President-elect Donald Trump for a pardon, according to a letter from his lawyer on Monday.

Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years behind bars for his role in helping rally members of the far-right group to come to Washington in advance of Jan. 6, prosecutors say, with the goal of stopping the peaceful transition of power, that he monitored their movements and egged them on as they attacked the Capitol, and continued to celebrate their actions in the days after the insurrection.

"Henry 'Enrique' Tarrio was portrayed throughout the government's case as a right-wing extremist that promoted a neo-fascist militant organization," Tarrio's lawyer, Nayib Hassan writes in a letter obtained by ABC News. "Henry is nothing more than a proud American that believes in true conservative values."

His lawyer writes that Tarrio is a "young man" with an "aspiring future" and that he wasn't even in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/former-proud-boys-leader-enrique-tarrio-asks-trump/story?id=117387406

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Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio asks Trump for pardon (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Monday OP

He'll probably get it, too. Ocelot II Monday #1

Manson wasn't at the scene of the Tate murders. louis-t Monday #2

Why would a Patriot need a pardon? BOSSHOG Monday #3

That bastard FBI informant has a rap sheet a mile long. Klarkashton Monday #4

There is dissent amongst the PBs over Tarrio's ethnicity. keithbvadu2 Monday #5

Today, of all days.... NM Grins Monday #6

Ocelot II

(121,828 posts)

1. He'll probably get it, too.

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Mon Jan 6, 2025, 04:17 PM

Monday

louis-t

(23,806 posts)

2. Manson wasn't at the scene of the Tate murders.

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Mon Jan 6, 2025, 04:21 PM

Monday

And if "true conservative values" means encouraging followers to do millions in damage to government buildings and cheering as they shit on the floor and smear it on the walls, well then those "values" are criminal, sick and un-American.

BOSSHOG

(40,474 posts)

3. Why would a Patriot need a pardon?

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Mon Jan 6, 2025, 04:31 PM

Monday

Klarkashton

(2,392 posts)

4. That bastard FBI informant has a rap sheet a mile long.

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Mon Jan 6, 2025, 05:02 PM

Monday

Figure that he would "clean up his act" after this?

Bullshit, he's a goddamn menace.

keithbvadu2

(40,731 posts)

5. There is dissent amongst the PBs over Tarrio's ethnicity.

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Mon Jan 6, 2025, 07:19 PM

Monday

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212402180

is Proud Boys leader a person of color? Afro-Cuban?

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214529994

Civil war brewing inside Proud Boys as top leader says he's done pretending he isn't a Nazi

“Due to the recent failure of Proud Boy Chairman Enrique Tarrio to conduct himself with honor and courage on the battlefield, it has been decided that I Kyle Chapman reassume my post as President of Proud Boys effective immediately,” Chapman wrote. “We will no longer cuck to the left by appointing token negroes as our leaders. We will no longer allow homosexuals or other ‘undesirables’ into our ranks. We will confront the Zionist criminals who wish to destroy our civilization.”
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2659141 Tarrio

Ironic that he burned a BLM banner.

His fellow white supremacists want to replace him because they consider him a negro.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214529994

Civil war brewing inside Proud Boys as top leader says he's done pretending he isn't a Nazi

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=proud+boy+kyle+chapman

Grins

(7,970 posts)

6. Today, of all days.... NM

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Mon Jan 6, 2025, 07:51 PM

Monday

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