‘Have a Child in Federal Prison Without a Real Reason’: Mother of Proud Boys Leader Begs Trump to Free Her Son from 22-Year Sentence Tied to Jan. 6 Riot, Blames Government for Chaos

The mother of Enrique Tarrio, leader of the Proud Boys and a chief architect of the Jan. 6 insurrection, has gone public with her plea to President-elect Donald Trump to release her son from prison.“President Trump, I think my son and most of those J6, if not all, deserve to be home with their families,” Zuny Tarrio said in an interview with a WTVJ, an NBC affiliate in South Florida. “We’ve suffered long enough.”Tarrio, now 40, was not in Washington, D.C., that day, but prosecutors accused him of playing a pivotal role in the riot. He was convicted of seditious conspiracy and received the longest sentence of all the Jan. 6 defendants: 22 years in prison.But with Donald Trump hinting that he might pardon at least some of the defendants once he retakes office Jan. 20, the push has begun for him to make good on that promise. Trump has called Jan. 6 “a day of love” and has said he could pardon all the prisoners, whom he has referred to as “patriots” and hostages,” within “nine minutes” of his return to the Oval Office. Zuny Tarrio insisted her son is not a violent man. “First of all, the word...