Proud Boys leader serving 22 years for Jan. 6 conviction asks Trump for a pardon

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WASHINGTON — Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys chairman who is serving 22 years in federal prison after he was convicted of seditious conspiracy in relation to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, is asking President-elect Donald Trump for a presidential pardon.

Nayib Hassan, Tarrio’s lawyer, wrote a letter to Trump on the fourth anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack asking for “a full and complete Presidential Pardon” from Trump, who has vowed to pardon some rioters after he takes office on Jan. 20.

In the letter, Hassan called Tarrio, 42, a “young man with an aspiring future ahead of him” who was “portrayed throughout the Government’s case as a right-wing extremist that promoted a neo-fascist militant organization,” when, Hassan claimed, Tarrio is “nothing more than a proud American that believes in true conservative values.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/proud-boys-leader-serving-22-213443271.html

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