The move, in effect, validated the far-right leader’s defiant claim that his criminal prosecution was a kind of political persecution.

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, and Enrique Tarrio, former leader of the Proud Boys, have been released from prison after their lengthy sentences for seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.

The former leader of the Oath Keepers group was released hours after Donald Trump has pardoned over 1,500 people involved in the Capitol riot.

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes says he felt relief when he heard President Donald Trump was taking action to pardon him and other Jan. 6 defendants.

Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the anti-government group the Oath Keepers, said it was a “good day for America” when President Trump pardoned him and other Jan. 6 defendants on Monday.

Enrique Tarrio, the now-former leader of the neo-fascist Proud Boys gang convicted on treason-related charges after fuelling a mob on January 6, is set to be released from federal prison following Donald Trump ’s expected clemency order.

Rhodes and Tarrio were among the most prominent defendants from January 6 and had received some of the harshest punishments.

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio are free men after President Trump granted pardons to more than 1,500 defendants who faced charges in connection with the Jan.

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes were released from prison following President Donald Trump's pardon for Jan. 6 rioters.

President Trump commuted the sentence of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, who was ordered to spend 18 years behind bars for plotting to prevent the peaceful transfer of power in 2021.