Posted on 01/22/2025 12:07:41 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Fresh from being freed by President Trump’s sweeping grants of clemency, two of the nation’s most notorious far-right leaders — Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys and Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers militia — spoke out this week.
While the men avoided any declarations about the future of their battered organizations, they asserted unrepentantly that they wanted Mr. Trump to seek revenge on their behalf for being prosecuted in connection with the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
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.
Perhaps for that reason, their remarks, made to largely friendly audiences, were couched in a tone of cautious belligerence.
They were cagey about what sort of profile the organizations they once led would strike in a second Trump administration. But they clearly echoed assertions by the president and some of his allies that those who sought to hold Mr. Trump and the Jan. 6 rioters accountable should themselves face some sort of punishment.
“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.”
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The Toilet Paper of Record has spoken.
The decision to reject truth is marks a severe mental deficit.
Who wouldn’t want retribution after they were thrown in jail by a corrupt judge presiding over a kangaroo court?
The Slimes uses the word militia like it's a bad thing. But besides, neither group are militia groups.
So, the "retribution" is President Trump being successful!
I also want "retribution"!
The far-left NY Times ⏲️ says what?
The narrative will reverse once Pam Bondi and Kash Patel flip over the flat damp rocks at the DOJ and FIB and watch what scurries out.
We still don’t know how many embedded federals led the charge into the Capitol, nor do we know anything substantive about the DNC bomb.
Paging Dan Bongino.
I listened to the entire interview with Enrique Tarrio and Alex Jones. Tarrio was clear as day that he wanted to seem the held accountable within the judicial system, not extra-judicial retribution.
Tell you what little Alan Furer, lets do to you what was done to them and see what you say then. In addition, I haven’t heard any call for retribution. What they are calling for is justice — that those responsible for those made up charges are brought to justice. But then writing for the NYT, Alan isn’t very bright.
The medias new trope is the J6 folks are Trump’s militia ready for action against democracy. Uh, otay assclowns.
The NYT has no shame. None.
First learn how to put plates in a plate carrier. What a goof.
“Who wouldn’t want retribution after they were thrown in jail by a corrupt judge presiding over a kangaroo court?”
It’s a terrible thing but someone has to pay.
As a test, how about we charge the NYT editors with misdemeanors and lock them up for 4 years without bail or a trial? At the end of 4 years, we can ask how they feel about it.
2%ers, Oath Breakers and Pride Boys need to stick with running around looking tacticool while they play airsoft in the forest.
Criminals must be identified and prosecuted and receive all penalties due them for their crimes; however, note tagline.
The people demand justice.
Uh, Mr. Feuer, the correct term is “persecuted.”
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