Tarrio said that he wished he had the president "on speed dial" during an interview with CNN's Laura Coates on Friday.

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President Donald Trump has defended his decision to pardon people convicted of assaulting police officers during the attack on the Capitol and suggests there could be a place in U.S. politics for the Proud Boys extremist group,

The former Philly Proud Boys leader serving a 15-year sentence in federal prison is set to be released after President Trump commuted his sentence.

Four years after they raided the Capitol and assaulted police officers, a group of some of the most violent Jan. 6 rioters are now free men.

Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the far-right Proud Boys, was among nearly 1,600 January 6 defendants who were either pardoned or had their sentences commuted. He is expected to be in Miami by Tuesday afternoon.

On his first day back in office, the president pardoned or commuted the sentences of those convicted over their roles in the January 6, 2021, riot.

Following his inauguration, Donald Trump offered clemency to all Jan. 6 defendants and commuted the sentence of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes.

A day after U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping grant of clemency to all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, America’s far-right celebrated. Some called for the death of judges who oversaw the trials.

The leaders of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers were both freed from long sentences by President Donald Trump. Who are they? And what are their groups?

The white supremacist group’s march in Washington was its first in the city since the Capitol attack four years ago.

Miamian Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boys chair, was pardoned by President Trump after he was convicted of seditious conspiracy for his role in orchestrating the Jan. 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol.