Among those impacted was David Moerschel, 37, a self-described former member of the Oath Keepers militia group from Port Charlotte, Florida, who had his sentence commuted late Monday evening.
The Oath Keepers founder met with Republican Rep. Gus Bilirakis of Florida to lobby for a pardon for fellow Oath Keeper and January 6 rioter Jeremy Brown, who was sentenced to seven years in prison on weapons charges.
Joseph Biggs, a member of the Proud Boys from Ormond Beach, had a 17-year sentence commuted by Trump. Prosecutors said Biggs led a group of rioters chanting, “Whose house? Our house,” to tear down fencing and burst through barricades at the Capitol. Biggs famously bragged on video: “We’ve gone through every barricade thus far.”
Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in May 2023 after a jury found him guilty of conspiring to stop the transfer of power and other charges. In September 2023, Tarrio, who asked Trump for a full pardon on the fourth anniversary of the insurrection, was sentenced to 22 years.
President Donald Trump pardoned all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol and commuted the sentences for 14.
Retired U.S. Army Special Forces master sergeant Jeremy Brown remains in jail while his attorney advocates for his release under President Donald Trump’s pardon for Jan. 6 crimes.
President Donald Trump enacted this pardon just hours after his inauguration, making it one of 46 presidential actions Monday.
Rhodes and Tarrio were two of the highest-profile defendants Jan. 6 defendants and received some of the harshest punishments in what became the largest investigation in Justice Department history. Their attorneys confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday they had been released hours after Trump pardoned,
Four years after federal authorities began rounding up suspects in the Jan. 6, 2021, attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, President Donald Trump cleaned the slate with a sweeping clemency
After the Justice Department says Trump wanted all conditions on sentences ended, a federal judge eliminates post-trial supervision for all the Oath Keepers’ leaders.
For a time, they all occupied the same pod—some called it the Patriot Wing—where they would sing the national anthem together every night. Trump added their choral rendition to his Mar-a-Lago iPad playlist and put it on at his rallies.