Ex-Proud Boys leader Tarrio guilty of Jan. 6 sedition plot

Yahoo! ^ | May 4, 202 | Staff

[Red Badger]

Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and three other members of the far-right extremist group were convicted Thursday of a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol in a desperate bid to keep Donald Trump in power after the Republican lost the 2020 presidential election.

A jury in Washington, D.C., found Tarrio guilty of seditious conspiracy after hearing from dozens of witnesses over more than three months in one of the most serious cases brought in the stunning attack that unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021, as the world watched on live TV.

Tarrio was also convicted of obstructing Congress' certification of President Joe Biden's electoral victory and obstructing law enforcement as well as two other conspiracy charges. He was cleared of an assault charge stemming from a co-defendant who stole an officer's riot shield.

It’s a significant milestone for the Justice Department, which has now secured seditious conspiracy convictions against the leaders of two major extremist groups prosecutors say were intent on keeping Biden out of the White House at all costs. The charge carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years.

[Fury]

He was not allowed to pardon who he wanted or anything like that.

That's simply not correct. The President's pardon power is absolute. He does not even need to run it through DOJ, etc. A signed letter would have been sufficient.

[forthedeclaration2]

This gets overturned on appeal

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Meanwhile I can’t think of one BLM/Antifa commie who got sentenced for throwing Molotov cocktails at cops

[CA Conservative]

I’m sure you have documentation of all of this... Surely Trump released memos, recordings, other evidence of such activity, right?

[trustverify0128]

(Playing devil’s advocate here...)

There are plenty of instances where not being physically present at a “crime scene” is a defense against a conspiracy to commit said crime.

For instance... if a woman hires someone to kill her husband, gives the hitman information about where her husband will be and when, and then goes to get her hair done during the attack. She’s absolutely part of a conspiracy even if she’s under the hair dryer when the attack happens.

I’m not saying that this guy hired anyone to do anything. I’m just giving an example of how his physical presence at a “crime” (or lack thereof) isn’t pertinent to a conspiracy charge.