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.

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