The mother of Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the far-right extremist organization Proud Boys who was sentenced to 22 years in prison after the 2021 Capitol riot, said her son was ready to return home after Donald commuted his sentence for inciting Trump.
“He’s very excited,” Duarte Tarrio told Florida news site local10.com. “It’s surreal for him. He’s ready to go.”
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio rallies in Oregon in 2019.credit: AP
Tarrio’s mother, who spoke to her son earlier in the day, was one of a few dozen people who gathered at a Las Vegas restaurant for a private viewing party, enjoying the sights and sounds of President Donald Trump’s second inauguration.
“It was the best and most exciting inauguration ever,” she said.
An attorney for Joseph Biggs, another former Proud Boys organizer whose sentence was commuted by Trump, said it was “remarkable” that his client would no longer have to serve his full 17-year sentence for seditious conspiracy.
“He got him out of jail,” attorney Norman Pattis told The Associated Press. “He had another 13 or 14 years to go, and there was no place like home.”
The Proud Boys are a group of right-wing extremists who engage in political violence. Some people wearing the group’s badge were seen marching and chanting in the streets of Washington outside Trump’s inauguration.