Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Trump Commutes Sentences of Proud Boys, Oath Keepers Heads

President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned more than 1,000 people charged in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, and commuted the sentences of leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.

Posted by Corky at 12:33 PM | 66 COMMENTS | permalink

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On the campaign trail, Trump regularly featured the stories of Jan. 6 defendants he labeled "hostages" and "patriots."

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-- NPR (@npr.org) January 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM

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"Also included among the 14 individuals whose sentences were commuted by Trump on Monday is Kelly Meggs, an Oath Keeper member and the leader of the Florida contingent of the group who was sentenced to a decade in prison for the seditious conspiracy conviction.

Clemency was also granted to Thomas Caldwell, who was not a member of the Oath Keepers, but led the effort to organize the quick reaction force so that the far-right group could quickly transport firearms into DC on January 6 should they decide it was necessary.

Oath Keepers member Jessica Watkins, who had been serving a nearly nine-year prison sentence for conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding and other felony charges, also had her sentence commuted by Trump."

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Trump pardoned his seditious co-conspirators, convicted by Juries all over the country, who attacked the Police.

So much for the Law and Order Party. If you are a Trump Loyalist, you can conspire to sedition and attack Police in America and get away with it now.

Thanks yet again, Trumpism!

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-21 12:24 AM

Biden commutes sentence of actual cop killer.

#2 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-21 01:49 AM

So the Brownshirts will be ready for the call-up.

"Only the best people" is Trumpish for "scum of the earth."

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-01-21 05:28 AM

youtu.be
(Horst Wessel Lied)

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-01-21 06:53 AM

I really don't care if he pardoned the ones who were non-violent, like he said he was going to do, but showing any mercy to the ones who attacked police with flagpoles and fire extinguishers? ------- indefensible. And pathetic.

#5 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-01-21 08:17 AM

#1 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-01-21 08:17 AM | Reply | Flag:

What about police who shot unarmed Americans?

#6 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-01-21 08:29 AM

Ashley Bulleteater?

#7 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-21 08:32 AM

"What about police who shot unarmed Americans?"

What about them? Sometimes it's justified, sometimes not. Just like I've been telling the BLM supporters for years.

#8 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-01-21 08:33 AM

These criminals are the base he'll recruit his first brown shirts from.

#9 | Posted by qcp at 2025-01-21 08:35 AM

Yep.
They are his militias, now.
This was a long insurrection and coup, but now it's complete.

#10 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-21 08:36 AM

The demented orange pedo would pardon McVeigh if he could.

#11 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-21 08:39 AM

I really don't care if he pardoned the ones who were non-violent, like he said he was going to do, but showing any mercy to the ones who attacked police with flagpoles and fire extinguishers? ------- indefensible. And pathetic.

#1 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-01-21 08:17 AM | Reply | Flag

If hey had received a fair trial by an impartial jury you may have a leg to stand on.

#12 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-01-21 08:43 AM

At least I'm consistent. I don't have any sympathy for either the violent BLM rioters or the violent J6 rioters.

#13 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-01-21 08:45 AM

I'm consistent too... Fair trial/Impartial jury.

But "evidence" has been destroyed, and many who partook in these "convictions" have received presidential pardons for "things". You know... Things we don't know about.

#14 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-01-21 08:52 AM

Whatever, dude. The people who defend the BLM rioters have lame conspiracy excuses too.

#15 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-01-21 08:56 AM

If hey had received a fair trial by an impartial jury you may have a leg to stand on.'

LMAO!

#16 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-21 08:58 AM

- lame conspiracy excuses

Which ones did I mention?

#17 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-01-21 08:58 AM

My favorite part is listening to all the "Republicans" talking about how Trump never, ever should do this and all the reasons why. All these Trumplicans. But here ol' Lfthnds is, pretending they got unfair trials and other nonsense.

#18 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-21 09:09 AM

"Which ones did I mention?"

I'm not gonna play this dumb game with you. Save your sea-lioning for the lefties you're having "fun" with here.

#19 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-01-21 09:10 AM

Headline fail. They are traitors and terrorists, as is Trump

#20 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-01-21 09:33 AM

^^^ THIS! ^^^

#21 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-21 09:37 AM


but showing any mercy to the ones who attacked police with flagpoles and fire extinguishers?

This Pardogeddon, I am of the opinion if Biden didn't pardon every member of his crime syndicate, Trump wouldn't have done this.

Prove me wrong.

#22 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-21 10:09 AM

My favorite part is listening to all the "Republicans" talking about how Trump never, ever should do this and all the reasons why.

Same thing Biden said about preemptive pardons, but Lumpers ignored that and actually defended it.

Pardogeddon!

#23 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-21 10:11 AM

#18 - no need to prove you wrong. You'r'e a moron. Trump said he was going to do this well before Biden did anything. You're hilarious thinking that Trump needed Biden to justify any action he takes. Seriously - how stupid are you?

#24 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-21 10:15 AM

#19 -

Are you too dumb to understand the difference between Biden saying something and wisely reversing course with his son and the all the Republicans saying "don't you do that!" to Trump on pardoning insurrectionists?

You'd have nothing if not for false equivalences.

#25 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-21 10:17 AM

should be "all those Republicans"

#26 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-21 10:19 AM

They are insurrectionists traitors to their country. Let's call them what they really are.

#27 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-21 10:22 AM

"Beating and trying to murder police is okay again. Make America Great Again!"
-Donald Trump

#28 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-01-21 11:53 AM

Those police weren't loyal to Trump.

They're expendable.

#29 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-21 11:58 AM

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis

Yup, just like the Brownshirts were. Thing is I think most of these folks actually support the original Brownshirts these days.

#30 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-01-21 12:41 PM

"Federal prisoners convicted in the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, began to be released overnight, after President Donald Trump approved pardons Monday for nearly 1,600 people charged in the riot.

Trump also commuted the sentences for 14 defendants. That included Stewart Rhodes, the former leader of the Oath Keepers militia, who had received the second-longest sentence of 18 years for his role in the riot.

Rhodes left a federal prison in Cumberland, Maryland, early Tuesday.

Relatives of Enrique Tarrio, former leader of the Proud Boys who received the longest sentence of 22 years for seditious conspiracy, said they expected his release."

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About 600 people were charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding law enforcement. Among those who pleaded guilty, 172 admitted assaulting law enforcement, 130 admitted obstructing law enforcement during a riot and 69 admitted assaulting law enforcement with a dangerous or deadly weapon.

"I have been betrayed by my country," Michael Fanone, a former officer with Washington's Metropolitan Police Department who suffered a heart attack in the attack, told CNN on Monday.

"Tonight, six individuals who assaulted me as I did my job on Jan. 6, as did hundreds of other law enforcement officers, will now walk free."

www.usatoday.com

Trump is traitor scum... and so are his supporters.

#31 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-21 12:52 PM

I'm not gonna play this dumb game with you. Save your sea-lioning for the lefties you're having "fun" with here.

#19 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-01-21 09:10 AM | Reply | Flag

Play or don't play. If I said something that was untrue, please point it out.

#32 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-01-21 01:01 PM

Five police officers are dead from January 6th MAGA terrorism.

Trump has decided law doesn't apply to militias in his name.

The presidency is a threat to national security.

#33 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-01-21 01:29 PM

This is just like when Biden and Harris pardoned those BLM rioters. Oh wait, that didn't happen.
At least the Dotard showed his true colors and intentions on day one. Anyone saying he's on the side of the rule of law is lying to themselves.

#34 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-01-21 01:48 PM

So much for "Back the blue". Trump supporters hate cops.

#35 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-01-21 02:35 PM

To all the conservatives on this site who claimed the rioters were actually antifa. Are you OK with Trump pardoning all these antifa people?

In other news, how is the price of eggs today? Ukraine war over yet?

#36 | Posted by dibblda at 2025-01-21 02:36 PM

Trump doesn't like how J6 is being correctly told. He's totally innocent, according to him. And to back that, he pardons people from J6.

Trust me, if J6 didn't involve him he'd wouldn't give two ---- about those people.

With Trump, it's all about him.

#37 | Posted by brass30 at 2025-01-21 03:14 PM

I'm consistent too... Fair trial/Impartial jury.

And these people did not receive that?

#38 | Posted by brass30 at 2025-01-21 05:40 PM

That fits...
A criminal lowlife
pardoning criminal lowlifes.

#39 | Posted by earthmuse at 2025-01-21 07:53 PM

And these people did not receive that?

They sure as hell did. Partisan morons with their heads so far up Trump's ass can't see anything but how horrible and unfair it all is that this lowlife POS got off easy in the first place.

#40 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-22 09:21 AM

---- is right in the GQP wheelhouse.

www.snopes.com

#41 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-22 10:56 AM

---- Trump and everyone that voted for that felon.
---- him all to hell.

#42 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-22 02:05 PM

I'd like hear Joe's immediate family's opinion on these pardons. That Joe is one greasy bstrd.

#43 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-22 02:24 PM

You got nothing and your "president" is a total piece of ----, so you try and smear his ---- on Biden. You are pathetic.

#44 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-22 06:22 PM

your "president" is a total piece of ----

Manure is starting a defamation lawsuit against yav for being compared to trump.

#45 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-01-22 06:23 PM

Damn.
I'd lose that case, too!

#46 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-22 06:24 PM

Proud Boys and Oath Keepers said their mission was about defending the Constitutional rights. What was the self serving mission of ANTIFA and BLM who stole millions from corporations just to buy mansions. Americans prefer the former mission not the latter.

#47 | Posted by Robson at 2025-01-22 08:40 PM

President Donald Trump has suggested that far-right militias such as the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers may have a role to play in public life.

#48 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-22 10:31 PM

They sure as hell did. Partisan morons with their heads so far up Trump's ass can't see anything but how horrible and unfair it all is that this lowlife POS got off easy in the first place.

#40 | Posted by YAV at 2025-01-22 09:21 AM | Reply | Flag:

No they didn't. They were told they'd spend the majority of their lives in prison is they didn't cop a plea deal for a shorter sentence. Why do you think Liz Cheney got a pardon for "nothing"? Her and all her minions are all now absolved of crimes they "didn't commit"

And I remind you that they were pardoned by someone who was declared mentally unfit to run for president, as well as stand trial for crimes he committed with classified information.

#49 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-01-23 08:34 AM

"And I remind you that they were pardoned by someone who was declared mentally unfit to run for president, as well as stand trial for crimes he committed with classified information.
#49 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-01-23 08:34 AM"

Please provide evidence of who did these declarations.
Just to cut to the chase: FaceBook postings don't count as evidence.

www.politifact.com

#50 | Posted by TrueBlue at 2025-01-23 09:17 AM

The headline should read...

Trump Pardons American Terrorists.

#51 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-01-23 09:42 AM

The headline should read...
Trump Pardons American Terrorists.
#51 | Posted by Nixon

Trump Pardons American Nazis:

Jon Cooper
@joncooper-us.bsky.social
Trump pardoned leaders of the white supremacist, rabidly anti-Semitic terrorist group the Proud Boys. You may know them by their motto "----"--which stands for "6 Million Wasn't Enough." Yes, they're referring to the Holocaust.
bsky.app

#52 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-01-23 10:25 AM

Trump put it out on the campaign trail that he'd do this and he was still voted. Biden unequivocally stated he wouldn't pardon his son and then after the election was over he not only pardoned for convicted crimes but issued a blanket pardon not only for his son, but for other family members and political allies.

Pardons for those who engaged in actual violence is inexcusable IMO. Pardons for somebody who broke a window and entered the building and didn't engage in any kind of violence or other protect damage but received a 4 year sentence anyway, justified.

It's amazing how the FBI managed to track down every person waived in by capitol police, who then wandered around for 15 minutes, snapped a couple of pics and left. Then to have the DOJ come crashing down on folks like this, most of whom had no priors, like a ton of bricks. But they can't find the person who deposited a couple of pipe bombs.

#53 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-23 12:28 PM

Trump put it out on the campaign trail that he'd do this and he was still voted. Biden unequivocally stated he wouldn't pardon his son and then after the election was over he not only pardoned for convicted crimes but issued a blanket pardon not only for his son, but for other family members and political allies.

Pardons for those who engaged in actual violence is inexcusable IMO. Pardons for somebody who broke a window and entered the building and didn't engage in any kind of violence or other protect damage but received a 4 year sentence anyway, justified.

It's amazing how the FBI managed to track down every person waived in by capitol police, who then wandered around for 15 minutes, snapped a couple of pics and left. Then to have the DOJ come crashing down on folks like this, most of whom had no priors, like a ton of bricks. But they can't find the person who deposited a couple of pipe bombs.

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-23 12:28 PM | Reply

You're a sad pathetic MAGA Trumper. Seek help NOW.

#54 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-23 12:40 PM

Jeff loves cop killers that support Trump.

It's who he is. It's who the MAGA filth are.

We shouldn't pretend otherwise. We never should have.

#55 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-01-23 01:00 PM

No cops were killed on J6.

Of course you can't refute what I said, per usual.

#56 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-23 01:13 PM

5 DC cops perished thanks to Patricide Jeff's child-raping hero's insurrection.

#57 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-23 01:19 PM

" No cops were killed on J6. Of course you can't refute ... "

Posts the guy "refuting" the Doctors' reports.

Clearly, cruelty is the point.

#58 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-01-23 01:41 PM

Had Trump simply conceded the election, just like every other losing POTUS candidate in history, Ashli Babbitt would still be alive.

Swallow it.

#59 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-01-23 01:46 PM

" Had Trump simply conceded the election, just like every other losing POTUS candidate in history, Ashli Babbitt would still be alive."

Agreed.

#60 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-23 02:02 PM

" Posts the guy "refuting" the Doctors' reports"

According to those reports Officer Sicknick died of natural causes.

#61 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-23 02:03 PM

CNN
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Were the strokes that killed US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick after the January 6 insurrection really natural? Some neurologists don't think so.

Sicknick suffered strokes that killed him, according to the medical examiner's office. However, the medical examiner, Dr. Francisco Diaz, told the Washington Post, that "all that transpired" on January 6 "played a role in his condition."

The insurrection caused him to die.

#62 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-23 02:15 PM

" played a role in his condition."

Yet he doesn't say what role it played.

#63 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-23 02:18 PM

Part of what transpired was being sprayed with a chemical agent directly in the face from a few feet away by a man wearing a knit Trump hat and Trump gloves.

"When I saw him get attacked, I remember his face, ghostly pale, and in pain. I remember thinking that I had never seen anyone go pale when they got sprayed with chemical spray, and I knew he must need help," fellow Capital Police Officer Caroline Edwards said in a victim's impact statement. "I didn't get a chance to help, though, because seconds later I was sprayed."

www.thedailybeast.com

#64 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-23 02:19 PM

@#53 ... It's amazing how the FBI managed to track down every person waived in by capitol police, who then wandered around for 15 minutes, snapped a couple of pics and left. Then to have the DOJ come crashing down on folks like this, most of whom had no priors, like a ton of bricks. ...

That scenario describes how many of the 1500 who faced Justice?

Got any substantiated numbers?

#65 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-23 02:37 PM

@#10 ... They are his militias, now. ...

Exactly.

They now seem to have have been told by Pres Trump that when they do his bidding, no matter the level of violence involved, they will not be held accountable for their actions.

Pres Trump apparently has just enabled his private militia.

#66 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-23 02:40 PM

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