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John,
When rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 one of the insurrection’s main planners was actually not there: Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio.
Tarrio had been arrested days earlier for destroying a Black Lives Matter banner at a D.C. church. But his plan to keep Trump in office by rioting and attacking lawmakers who voted to certify the election went forward unimpeded.
Tarrio’s goal was to subvert and overturn a national election—which had given an undeniable Electoral College and popular vote victory for Joe Biden—by causing maximum chaos and violence to stop certification.
Tarrio was eventually sentenced to 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy: attempting to disrupt and ultimately stop Congress’ certification of the 2020 election.
Donald Trump pardoned Tarrio, along with every single other Jan 6 rioter, on his very first day back in office. And now Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio is considering running for Congress to replace Matt Gaetz in Florida:
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