Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio Asking Trump for J6 Pardon

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed pardons for the nonviolent Jan. 6 protesters, and the man who received the lengthiest sentence of all, 22 years for seditious conspiracy, Enrique Tarrio, is asking for a full pardon come Jan. 20.

"No, we haven't heard from the transition team at this point — I don't think we expected that; we do expect President Trump to — you know, his words are in our hearts — so, I know that he's going to do the right thing for us," Zuny Tarrio, Enrique Tarrio's mother, told Newsmax's "National Report" on Monday morning on the fourth anniversary of Jan. 6.

Trump vowed to NBC's "Meet the Press" last month to act "very quickly, first day" on those who were charged on Jan. 6, although there could be "some exceptions" if individuals had acted "radical" or "crazy."

"I'm going to look at everything," he said. "We're going to look at individual cases."

While first-day action requires some consideration before Jan. 20, Enrique Tarrio's lawyer Nayib Hassan said his client is focused on the appeal but acknowledged a Jan. 20 pardon could expedite what has been a long, delayed process with the judicial system.

"We've been working hard toward that appeal, but with the words and what we've heard so far from the area and from President Trump is that we anticipate or we're hoping for a presidential pardon from President-elect Trump," Hassan told host Shaun Kraisman.

Tarrio was convicted for seditious conspiracy for Jan. 6 despite being banned from Washington, D.C., for having burned a Black Lives Matter flag at an anti-police protest during counterprotest to the 2020 George Floyd riots.

"I am not a political zealot; inflicting harm or changing the results of the election was not my goal," Tarrio said at his September 2023 sentencing. "Please show me mercy … I ask you that you not take my 40s from me."

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, who was appointed to the bench by Trump, said Tarrio was motivated by "revolutionary zeal" to lead the conspiracy that resulted in "200 men, amped up for battle, encircling the Capitol." Noting Tarrio had not previously shown any remorse publicly for his crimes, the judge said a stiff punishment was necessary to deter future political violence.

"It can't happen again. It can't happen again," the judge repeated.

The lengthiest sentence might lend itself to review by the Trump administration, according to legal experts.

"It's obviously a very legitimate complaint from a mother … 22 years is a very, very, very lengthy sentence, obviously," former federal prosecutor Doug Burns told "National Report."

"This was overblown on many legal fronts. That's not to say that people didn't do things seriously wrong, they did. Those are on the higher end of culpability scale."

Burns is "confident" the incoming Trump administration will be able to "sort out" the different cases.

"The public definitely acted like a jury — I always say since I'm a trial lawyer — they acted like a jury who rejected a lot of what they saw," Burns said.

Zuny Tarrio noted to Newsmax her son has "been moved to 35 different facilities since March 8 of 2022" and was not present on Jan. 6 and, therefore, falls within the nonviolent group convicted for Jan. 6 actions.

"He was taken into custody and never given bond," she told Newsmax. "He's gone to 35 different jails and prisons, and he has been moved around quite a bit. So that's very, very upsetting. We're hoping that this has a very good outcome with President Trump.

"You know, it kind of surprises me that Biden would honor Liz Cheney with a medal when actually my son should be getting a medal of freedom because they really didn't do anything that day. And he was not even there in Washington, D.C., that day."

"So it is very disturbing. And they not only convicted Enrique Tarrio, they have convicted all the six families and all of the parents that are involved with this very bad situation."

Information from Reuters and The Associated Press was used to compile this report.

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