Enrique Tarrio
- Status of the full grant
- Pardons and commutations granted
- Clemency
- Pardon · Jan 20, 2025
- The case
- Proud Boys leader convicted of seditious conspiracy and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding over the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, for which he was serving a 22-year sentence.
WHAT THE RECORD SHOWS
Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, was convicted on May 4, 2023 of seditious conspiracy and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding along with three co-defendants, Joseph Biggs, Ethan Nordean and Zachary Rehl, in the case before U.S. district judge Timothy J. Kelly, and was serving a 22-year sentence. The January 20, 2025 proclamation named fourteen people for commutation of sentence and Tarrio was not among them; he fell under its second category, a “full, complete and unconditional pardon” for every other January 6 defendant, which, unlike the fourteen commutations, did not leave the conviction on his record. The proclamation directed the attorney general to issue certificates of pardon and to secure the release of those still in prison. On June 6, 2025 Tarrio and four Proud Boys whose sentences had been commuted — Biggs, Nordean, Rehl and Dominic Pezzola — sued the federal government, seeking $100 million in restitution over what they called an abuse of the legal system under the Biden administration to punish Trump’s political allies. No payment is documented in connection with the grant.
RESPONSE
In January 2025 Tarrio and Rhodes said they wanted Trump to seek revenge on their behalf, and at a march on the Capitol on January 6, 2026 Tarrio said the pardons were “not enough” and that the Justice Department should prosecute those who had prosecuted January 6 defendants. The proclamation granting the clemency said it “ends a grave national injustice” and “begins a process of national reconciliation.”
Correction to the shared entry, January 6 defendants (about 1,500 people). An earlier version said Enrique Tarrio’s sentence was commuted. He received a full pardon; Stewart Rhodes’s sentence was commuted. Corrected September 18, 2026.
SOURCES FOR THE FULL GRANT
- Wikipedia: Pardon of January 6 United States Capitol attack defendants ↗
- U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee: Letter to Attorney General Bondi regarding January 6 pardons ↗
- U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Pardon Attorney: Clemency grants by President Donald J. Trump (2025-present) ↗
- The White House: Granting Pardons and Commutation of Sentences for Certain Offenses Relating to the Events at or Near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 ↗
This grant is recorded in full at January 6 defendants (about 1,500 people), which carries the shared record and every source cited here. A connection recorded here is not proof that it bought the outcome. How entries are labeled · Submit a correction or response · Download the ledger
