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.

Rehl, a former leader of the Philly Proud Boys, had been sentenced to 15 years for seditious conspiracy. But after Trump commuted his sentence, he walked out of prison a free man.

Five of the Oath Keepers who had sentences commuted by the president on Monday -- including Rhodes, who was facing 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy -- were military veterans.

In spirit of “national reconciliation,” Trump offers clemency to all Jan. 6 defendants and commutes sentence of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes

President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned more than 1,000 people charged in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, and commuted the sentences of leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.

Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes leave prison after Trump commuted their Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy sentences.

Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in May 2023 after a jury found him guilty of conspiring to stop the transfer of power and other charges. In September 2023, Tarrio, who asked Trump for a full pardon on the fourth anniversary of the insurrection, was sentenced to 22 years.

Rhodes and Tarrio were among the most prominent defendants from January 6 and had received some of the harshest punishments.

Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys and Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers asserted that they wanted President Trump to seek revenge on their behalf for being prosecuted in connection with the Jan. 6 riot.

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio talked to reporters at Dallas Love Field after being released from prison in Louisiana.

At least [in] the cases we looked at, these were people that actually love our country,’ Trump says of January 6 rioters