Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio says he met with Trump in Florida

WASHINGTON – Former Proud Boys person Enrique Tarrio, who was pardoned by Donald Trump for his condemnation related to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack connected the Capitol, said helium met with the president implicit the play successful Florida.

Tarrio posted astir the gathering connected his X relationship Sunday morning.

“Yesterday, I had the grant of gathering the President of the United States, a infinitesimal I ne'er could person imagined successful my darkest days,” Tarrio wrote.

In different posts, helium said helium was astatine Mar-a-Lago, the president's club, and that helium had a “great conversation” with the president aft Trump called him and his parent implicit during dinner.

Neither the White House nor Tarrio responded to messages seeking remark astir the meeting.

A elder medication authoritative told The New York Times that Tarrio and his parent were astatine Mar-a-Lago successful Palm Beach astatine the invitation of a impermanent and were introduced to Trump arsenic helium was walking to the patio.

A national assemblage convicted Tarrio and 3 lieutenants of seditious conspiracy for a failed crippled to support Trump successful the White House aft helium mislaid the 2020 statesmanlike election. Tarrio was serving a 22-year situation sentence, the longest of immoderate Capitol riot case, earlier Trump pardoned him. He was successful situation for astir 3 years.

Tarrio wasn’t successful Washington, D.C, erstwhile Proud Boys members stormed the Capitol with a mob of Trump supporters. But prosecutors said the Miami nonmigratory organized and led the far-right extremist group’s battle from afar.

Trump has defended the clemency actions helium took connected his archetypal time returning to office. He pardoned astir 1,500 radical who were progressive successful the siege astatine the Capitol by his aggravated supporters. He besides suggested determination could beryllium a spot successful American authorities for the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, the extremists groups whose leaders were convicted of seditious conspiracy against the U.S.

Before the Capitol attack, the Proud Boys were champion known for thoroughfare fights with anti-fascist activists astatine clip erstwhile Trump told the radical to “stand backmost and basal by” during his archetypal statement successful 2020 with then-presidential campaigner Biden.

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Associated Press writer Michael Kunzelman contributed to this report.

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