Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the proud boys, said he personally thanked President Trump on Saturday evening for publishing a pardon that was short The 22-year-old imprisonment In connection with the attack of January 6, 2021, he served on the Capitol.
The expression of gratitude from Mr. Tarrio came during a short but extraordinary meeting with Mr. Trump in Mar-A-Lago, the private club of the president and residence in Palm Beach, Fla. Mr. Tarrio and his mother, Zuny Duarte, were invited to dine at the building by one of her members.
According to a senior official who was not authorized to publicly discuss the episode, the club member Mr. Tarrio and his mother introduced to Mr Trump while the president walked through the main room in Mar-A-Lago on his way to a table on the terrace.
Mr. Tarrio and Mrs. Duarte said in interviews that they spoke to Mr Trump for about 10 minutes and remembered that he told that he believed that his supporters who had to deal with charges arising from the Capitol attack.
A spokesperson for the White House did not respond to an e -mail to ask for comments.
Mr. Tarrio said he told the Lord Trump that the president had saved his life by including him in the General granting of Clementia extended To all almost 1,600 people who were charged in connection with January 6.
“He knew the hardships with which I and my family were confronted for three long years,” Mr. Tarrio later wrote about the meeting on social media. “He knew how often they moved me. And he said he is working to make things right. I thanked him that he had given me life back. He answered with … I love you.”
Mr. Tarrio’s 22-year term of office was the stiffest fine with which every suspect of January 6 was confronted. Since his release of detention, Mr. Tarrio has been that involved in a number of companiesIncluding a podcast and a crypto currency with some of the other members of the proud boys, an extreme right-wing extremist group convicted of him of incentive conspiracy during a trial two years ago.
Hundreds of people descend every night at Mar-A-Lago for dinner. The guests all go through the secret service through a screening process.
Mrs. Duarte said that Mr. Trump immediately recognized her son’s name when the club member introduced him and asked, “Oh, you are that guy.” Mr. Tarrio said that the president also knew the names of some of his fellow suspects in the Sedition Case: Joseph Biggs, Ethan Nornean, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola.
Mr. Tarrio said he was not sure what Mr. Trump had meant when he stated that he was trying to “make things right” for hundreds of January 6 -relatives who received his clementia.
Mr. Trump has relocated aggressively for the past four years to rewrite the history of January 6, and describes it as a day full of ‘love’ and the name of those convicted of storming the capitol and attacking police officers ‘political hostages’.
His meeting with Mr. Tarrio came one day after the lawyers of the Ministry of Justice said they had reached a provisional agreement to arrange a lawsuit of $ 30 million that was filed during the Bides administration by the Van Ashli Babbitt family, a riot who was shot and killed by an American Capitol -Polition. The details of the settlement remain unclear.
In January 2024, the Babbitt family charged the government for what it described as her unlawful death by the officer, Michael Byrd. After an investigation of three months, Prosecutors decided not to pursue any criminal prosecution Against officer Byrd.
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