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Far-Right Leaders Granted Clemency by Trump Express Desire for Retribution​

Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys and Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers asserted that they wanted President Trump to seek revenge on their behalf for being prosecuted in connection with the Jan. 6 riot.

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Far-Right Leaders Granted Clemency by Trump Express Desire for Retribution

Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys and Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers asserted that they wanted President Trump to seek revenge on their behalf for being prosecuted in connection with the Jan. 6 riot.
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“… Before Mr. Trump offered them a reprieve on Monday night, both men had been serving lengthy prison terms — Mr. Tarrio 22 years and Mr. Rhodes 18 years — on seditious conspiracy convictions arising from the roles they played in the storming of the Capitol. The charges they faced and the punishment they got were among the most serious imposed against any of the nearly 1,600 people prosecuted in connection with Jan. 6.

… “Success,” Mr. Tarrio said, “is going to be retribution.”

Mr. Tarrio made those comments to Alex Jones, the pro-Trump conspiracy theorist and proprietor of the news outlet Infowars. He called in to Mr. Jones’s show just hours after getting out of a federal prison in Louisiana and immediately thanked Mr. Trump “for helping us through these difficult times and releasing me.”

“Twenty-two years — this is not a short sentence,” he said. “That’s the rest of my life. So Trump literally gave me my life back.”

… In his first hours of freedom, he was also focused on seeking vengeance against those who investigated and prosecuted the events of Jan. 6. “Now it’s our turn,” Mr. Tarrio declared.

“The people who did this, they need to feel the heat,” he said. “They need to be put behind bars and they need to be prosecuted.”

At a White House news conference on Tuesday, Mr. Trump was asked whether far-right groups like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers would now have a place in the political conversation given his expansive efforts to pardon their members or commute their sentences.

“Well, we have to see,” Mr. Trump replied. “They’ve been given a pardon. I thought their sentences were ridiculous and excessive.”

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Mr. Rhodes also said he was looking for payback when he showed up on Tuesday afternoon at the local jail in Washington that has held several Jan. 6 defendants over the years and has served as the emotion focal point of protest against the federal prosecutions of the rioters.

He said, for instance, that he hoped Kash Patel, Mr. Trump’s pick to run the F.B.I., would “get in there and clean house” at the bureau. He also accused the people who oversaw his trial of breaking the law.

“What has to happen first,” Mr. Rhodes said, “is that the prosecutors who suborned perjury — that’s a crime — need to be prosecuted for their crimes.” …”
 
nycfan said:


“… As first reported by Politico’s Kyle Cheney, Ball was arrested again for federal gun charges Wednesday morning, just one day after his January 6 case was dismissed.

Online federal court records of Ball’s indictment show he was charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon on Aug. 6, 2024, listing his past convictions as domestic violence battery by strangulation in 2017 and then resisting law enforcement with violence and battery on law enforcement officer, both in 2021.

The arrest warrant filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida was issued on the same day as the indictment, and now notes that Ball was arrested on Jan. 22, 2025. He has not yet entered a plea. …”
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Probably feels free to break any law he wants. I hope he is wrong.
 
nycfan said:

Far-Right Leaders Granted Clemency by Trump Express Desire for Retribution​

Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys and Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers asserted that they wanted President Trump to seek revenge on their behalf for being prosecuted in connection with the Jan. 6 riot.

www.nytimes.com

Far-Right Leaders Granted Clemency by Trump Express Desire for Retribution

Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys and Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers asserted that they wanted President Trump to seek revenge on their behalf for being prosecuted in connection with the Jan. 6 riot.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com

“… Before Mr. Trump offered them a reprieve on Monday night, both men had been serving lengthy prison terms — Mr. Tarrio 22 years and Mr. Rhodes 18 years — on seditious conspiracy convictions arising from the roles they played in the storming of the Capitol. The charges they faced and the punishment they got were among the most serious imposed against any of the nearly 1,600 people prosecuted in connection with Jan. 6.

… “Success,” Mr. Tarrio said, “is going to be retribution.”

Mr. Tarrio made those comments to Alex Jones, the pro-Trump conspiracy theorist and proprietor of the news outlet Infowars. He called in to Mr. Jones’s show just hours after getting out of a federal prison in Louisiana and immediately thanked Mr. Trump “for helping us through these difficult times and releasing me.”

“Twenty-two years — this is not a short sentence,” he said. “That’s the rest of my life. So Trump literally gave me my life back.”

… In his first hours of freedom, he was also focused on seeking vengeance against those who investigated and prosecuted the events of Jan. 6. “Now it’s our turn,” Mr. Tarrio declared.

“The people who did this, they need to feel the heat,” he said. “They need to be put behind bars and they need to be prosecuted.”

At a White House news conference on Tuesday, Mr. Trump was asked whether far-right groups like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers would now have a place in the political conversation given his expansive efforts to pardon their members or commute their sentences.

“Well, we have to see,” Mr. Trump replied. “They’ve been given a pardon. I thought their sentences were ridiculous and excessive.”

…
Mr. Rhodes also said he was looking for payback when he showed up on Tuesday afternoon at the local jail in Washington that has held several Jan. 6 defendants over the years and has served as the emotion focal point of protest against the federal prosecutions of the rioters.

He said, for instance, that he hoped Kash Patel, Mr. Trump’s pick to run the F.B.I., would “get in there and clean house” at the bureau. He also accused the people who oversaw his trial of breaking the law.

“What has to happen first,” Mr. Rhodes said, “is that the prosecutors who suborned perjury — that’s a crime — need to be prosecuted for their crimes.” …”
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I feel like this is probably underway already, and I hope I am wrong.
 
nycfan said:
“What has to happen first,” Mr. Rhodes said, “is that the prosecutors who suborned perjury — that’s a crime — need to be prosecuted for their crimes.” …”
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What has to happen first, Mr. Rhodes, is for you to learn something about the law, which apparently you failed to do at Yale Law School. Prosecutors have absolute immunity.
 
Trump was an absolute fool to issue blanket pardons. I would love to know who's advice he disregarded about that or if he was advised against it. I have my opinions as to why he did it but the fallout is worse than my opinion as to why he did it. He can't escape his vanity.
 
I recognize that what I'm about to say requires a significantly more charitable view than they've earned over the last decade, and I don't expect anything to happen with haste, but I do think that Trump's lame-duck status, combined with what should be (if Democrats have half a pulse) a midterm repudiation in 2026, will create a different relationship dynamic between Trump and Republicans on Capitol Hill, and not in a way that is good for the president.

President Trump’s sweeping pardons of more than 1,500 people charged with crimes related to the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021, including individuals who assaulted police officers, stunned Republican lawmakers who witnessed firsthand the chaos on Capitol Hill four years ago.

Trump’s action, which defied assurances from his allies that he would examine convictions on a case-by-case basis and not grant clemency to people who committed violence, divided GOP senators and overshadowed talk about his first-100-days agenda.

GOP lawmakers are largely willing to overlook the hundreds of people who entered the Capitol illegally four years ago, which disrupted the certification of former President Biden’s victory by several hours, but pardoning people who assaulted Capitol Police, causing dozens of injuries, was hard to swallow.

“It is wrong to pardon individuals convicted of violent crime, especially when many of the victims of their violence were law enforcement officers,” Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) said in a statement.

Moran was expressing a view shared by many of his Senate GOP colleagues even though many of them are reluctant to criticize Trump publicly.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who’s up for reelection this election cycle, said people who assaulted police should serve out their sentences, breaking with other Republican senators who tried to avoid talking about the issue.

“It’s not right. People who assault police officers, if they do the crime, they should do the time,” he said.

Cassidy described himself as a “big ‘back the blue’ guy,” referring to his record of supporting law enforcement.

“Whether you’re in Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Shreveport, Monroe, Lafayette, Alexandria, Lake Charles or Washington, D.C., it’s wrong to assault anybody,” he said.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said the blanket pardon of people convicted of Jan. 6-related crimes sends the wrong message to the police officers who protect lawmakers on a daily basis.

“I don’t think that the approach of a blanket pardon that includes those who caused harm, physical harm to our police officers, to others, that resulted in violence — I’m disappointed to see that. And I do fear the message that is sent to these great men and women who stood by us,” she said.
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Trump is scum. He has done a lot of awful things but pardoning these treasonous thugs is the worst yet. All this crap about illegals being dangerous and he goes and pardons people that attempted an insurrection. Just shows how racist he is and doesn't care about anyone but himself. And I wonder if his reason for doing this is so he can have people that will fight for him if needed.
 
Crazy but now I guess we know why she didn’t need a preemptive pardon?

 
superrific said:
What has to happen first, Mr. Rhodes, is for you to learn something about the law, which apparently you failed to do at Yale Law School. Prosecutors have absolute immunity.
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That guy is a moron. The reason he wears an eye patch is that he shot himself in the face cleaning his gun.
 
superrific said:
For real?
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Man who wears eye patch after shooting himself with his own gun convicted over Capitol riot​

Rhodes is among roughly 900 people charged so far in connection with the attack on the US Capitol, the heart of American democracy.​


news.sky.com

Man who wears eye patch after shooting himself with his own gun convicted over Capitol riot

Rhodes is among roughly 900 people charged so far in connection with the attack on the US Capitol, the heart of American democracy.
news.sky.com news.sky.com


apnews.com

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes' path: From Yale to jail

Oath Keepers militia group founder Stewart Rhodes was once a promising Yale Law School graduate. Rhodes was born in California and spent time in Nevada and once secured an Arizona Supreme Court clerkship.
apnews.com apnews.com

“… Rhodes accidentally dropped a gun and shot out his eye. He now wears an eye patch. …”

He also used his teen-aged wife’s college fund to put himself through school while demanding she work as a stripper to make money while he studied.
 
Zoo_View said:
Pretty certain either the committee chair and/or the committee by a majority vote issues subpoenas; the Democrats won’t be able to issue them.
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There used to be a minority witness rule since Watergate that allowed at least one day for the minority party to call witnesses in any hearing (though the majority can reject a witness they deem, by vote, to not be relevant to the topic). I haven’t seen the rules package for this Congress so not 100% if that is still the rule.

Also depends on rules of the committee and subcommittee which can be set so as to make it very difficult for the minority rule to operate.

EDIT to note that on quick search, I found this, which is not directly in point but related:

“… Another renewed provision mandates that the chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sign off on document requests for the Executive Branch. Effectively, this allows the House majority to veto requests for information from Democratic committee members, and makes committee and staff research and oversight more partisan. …”

www.progressivecaucuscenter.org

House Rules to Know for the 119th Congress — Progressive Caucus Center

www.progressivecaucuscenter.org www.progressivecaucuscenter.org
 
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