Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the proud children, said he personally thanked President Trump on Saturday night for issuing a forgiveness that shortened the 22 -year prison sentence he was serving with the attack of the Capitol of January 6, 2021.
The expression of gratitude of Mr. Tarrio occurred during a letter, but an extraordinary encounter with Trump in Mar-A-Lago, the president’s private club and the residence in Palm Beach, Fla. Mr. Tarrio and his mother, Zuny Duarte, were invited to dinner on the property by one of its members.
According to an official of the Superior Administration who was not authorized to discuss the episode publicly, the club member presented Mr. Tarrio and his mother to Mr. Trump while the president walked through the main room of Mar-A-Lago on his way to a table in the courtyard.
Mr. Tarrio and Mrs. Duarte said in interviews that spoke with Trump for about 10 minutes, recovered that she told them that she believed that their supporters who faced positions that arose from the Capitol’s attack had lost their legs.
A White House spokesman did not respond to a comment from Seijs by email.
Tarrio said he told Mr. Trump that the president had saved his life by including it in the general concession of clemency extended to all the almost 1,600 people who were accused in relation to January 6.
“I knew that the difficulties that my family and I face for three long years,” Tarrio wrote about the meeting on social networks. “I knew how many times they transferred me. And he said he is working to do things well. I thanked him for returning my life. He replied with … I love them.”
Mr. Tarrio’s 22 -year -old was the strongest penalty faced by the defendant on January 6. Since his release of custody, Mr. Tarrio has been involved in a series of companies, including a podcast and a cryptographic currency with some of the other members of the proud children, an extremely right extremist group, which were sentenced by him by seditious Cos -ago.
Hundreds of people descend every night in Mar-A-Lago for dinner. All guests go through a secret service detection process.
Mrs. Duarte said Trump immediately recognized her son’s name when the club member presented it, joking: “Oh, you are that guy.” Mr. Tarrio said the president also knew the names of some of his coacked in the case of Sedion: Joseph Biggs, Ethan Nordean, Zachary Rel and Dominic Pezzola.
Mr. Tarrio said he was not sure of what Trump had Meeean when he declared that he was trying to do “the right things” for the hundreds of uprooters who received their clemency.
Trump has moved aggressively in the last four years to rewrite the history of January 6, describing it as a day full of “love” and calling those convicted of assaulting the Capitol and assaulting the police officers “Political Haras”.
His meeting with Mr. Tarrio occurred one day after the lawyers of the Department of Justice said in the courts that had reached a preliminary agreement to resolve a claim of $ 30 million filed against the Biden administration government for the family of Killi Babbit 6 by a police officer of the United States Capitol. The details of the settlement remain uncle.
The Babbitt family sued the Government in January 2024, so it has described as its unfair death at the hands of the officer, Michael Byrd. After a three -month investigation, prosecutors decided not to present criminal charges against officer Byrd.