A day after U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping grant of clemency to all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, America’s far-right celebrated. Some called for the death of judges who oversaw the trials.

He issued formal pardons to more than 1,550 rioters charged with a wide range of crimes and commuted the sentences of 14 members of far-right groups.

Former Proud Boys extremist group leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes have been released from prison after their lengthy sentences for seditious conspiracy convictions in the Jan.

In spirit of “national reconciliation,” Trump offers clemency to all Jan. 6 defendants and commutes sentence of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes

Stewart Rhodes and Enrique Tarrio, who received some of longest sentences for the US Capitol attack, freed from prison.

President Donald Trump has defended his decision to pardon people convicted of assaulting police officers during the attack on the Capitol and suggests there could be a place in U.S. politics for the Proud Boys extremist group,

Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in May 2023 after a jury found him guilty of conspiring to stop the transfer of power and other charges. In September 2023, Tarrio, who asked Trump for a full pardon on the fourth anniversary of the insurrection, was sentenced to 22 years.

Leaders of far-right groups in the United States (US), who were at the forefront of the Capitol riots and were recently freed by the Donald Trump administration, said on Wednesday (January 22) that they were planning to regroup.

Leaders of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys called for prosecutions of police, prosecutors and members of a congressional committee.

Pardoned former Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio flew into his home city of Miami on Wednesday after being released from prison, where he was serving a 22 years for his involvement in January 6.

One of President Donald Trump’s first orders of business following his inauguration this week was to pardon those jailed in relation to convictions stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the United States Capitol.