‘Greatest president since George Washington’: Proud Boys leader says he met Trump
While we wait to hear from Donald Trump, the leader of the far-right group Proud Boys has said he met the US president on Saturday.
Enrique Tarrio had been facing a sentence of 22 years in federal prison after being convicted of seditious conspiracy for actions relating to the 6 January 2021 attack on the Capitol.
But in one of his first acts of his second term, Trump granted him clemency along with rioters and others convicted of involvement in the attack.
“I had the honour of meeting the President of the United States, a moment I never could have imagined in my darkest days,” Tarrio said in a post on X.
He also praised Trump as “the greatest president since George Washington”.
“My deepest gratitude goes to my family, my brotherhood, my friends, and every person who fought for justice and helped elect the greatest president since George Washington,” he wrote.
“Together, we did it.”