Enrique Tarrio, former leader of the Proud Boys, was convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 22 years in prison in 2023. This becomes the longest sentence so far among all January 6 cases. In an exclusive sit-down with Briana Morello on behalf of Rumble Premium, the former head of the far-right Proud Boys was sentenced for his role in the assault on our democracy.
00:00:18.000Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for charges including seditious conspiracy.
00:00:26.000This becomes the longest sentence so far among all January 6 cases.
00:00:30.000Now we have this sentence for what the judge described as the ultimate leader of the conspiracy, the leader of the Proud Boys, the person who is really at the center of the conspiracy.
00:00:42.000Many took to X to mock the Afro-Cuban white nationalists for being the face of white supremacy.
00:00:48.000I'm glad to see that the American people and our system of democracy and rule of law are holding people accountable.
00:00:58.000Enrique Tarrio, more than three decades behind bars, is what they want.
00:01:01.000He was the last Proud Boys leader to receive his punishment for the riot.
00:01:04.000This week, the former head of the far-right Proud Boys was sentenced for his role in that assault on our democracy.
00:01:10.000Enrique Tarrio was the ultimate leader of the conspiracy.
00:01:13.000There's a terrible threat on the domestic front.
00:01:16.000And a great threat may come from within rather than without.
00:01:19.000Prosecutors say that he was essentially pulling all the strings and he would have been there on January 6th had he had the opportunity.
00:01:25.000Today, let's start with the stories you've heard.
00:01:38.000Enrique Tarrio, so-called leader of the Proud Boys, was convicted of seditious conspiracy.
00:01:46.000And sentenced to 22 years in prison in 2023. And according to the DOJ, Tario, even though he wasn't in D.C., he was the mastermind of a plot to obstruct, influence, impede the official Electoral College certification on what is now the infamous January 6th.
00:02:09.000You've heard him labeled Everything from a domestic terrorist compared to Timothy McVeigh or the Boston bomber to being a fed, a plant.
00:02:23.000You likely believed a lot of these stories.
00:02:27.000And he was locked away for them in a federal prison where he would stay until he was nearly 60 years old.
00:02:37.000But if those stories are true, if any of them are true, Why the pardon?
00:02:44.000Thanks to President Donald Trump, along with a lot of other people from January 6th.
00:02:56.000And so, for the first time in an exclusive sit-down with Brianna Morello on behalf of Rumble Premium here, Lauder with Crowder, Enrique Tarrio will give you his side of the story.
00:03:12.000One that you no doubt have not heard from legacy media and certainly not reported by the government.
00:03:20.000This is his detailed truth behind everything.
00:03:23.000The days leading up to January 6th, the conditions in which he lived, what he was subjected to in prison, and above all else, hopefully the truth that you may never have known.
00:03:49.000Well, it's an honor to be sitting here with the man himself, Enrique Tarrio, fresh out of the pen after, well, a couple of years.
00:04:41.000You know, President Trump issuing this pardon to you after you were sentenced to 22 years in prison for a rally that you weren't even at.
00:04:49.000So let's just get your initial reaction to the moment where you realize President Trump was going to give you back your freedom and get you out of solitary confinement and get you out of this prison system that they've been literally been going after you for.
00:05:10.000I knew that if he got elected and they didn't steal the election, that we'd be pardoned, we, by all these J6ers.
00:05:19.000And I knew he was going to pardon or commit the sentence of everybody.
00:05:26.000It was a good hunch, because that's exactly what he did.
00:05:28.000He went ahead and he pardoned everybody.
00:05:31.000And he commuted some sentences, and some of those, I think, are temporary commutations, because if you look down that list of commutations, there are people that had very extensive trials, three-month trials, four-month trials.
00:05:46.000In our case, specifically, there's about 60,000 pages of transcripts, so there's a lot to go through, and I think he did.
00:05:56.000He did go case by case, and he saw that most of these cases.
00:06:02.000Justice was, there wasn't equality in justice when it came to J6ers or when it came to other cases.
00:06:10.000So I think promise is made, promise is kept, so I'm thankful for the president.
00:06:17.000Yeah, and that's really something that he's always done, and I think it's really impressive that he did it the day he got there, and that was really, really important.
00:06:25.000And you mentioned that there are some who haven't yet been pardoned, but they've been released from prison.
00:06:29.000Stuart Rhodes, I mean, I followed his trial as well.
00:06:31.000The amount of perjury committed during his trial was insane.
00:06:34.000I mean, they literally put two officers on the stand who, now, because of Joe Biden, cannot be prosecuted, of course, because they issued a pardon to them.
00:07:24.000When I first got arrested, you know, I hired my attorney, Naipa San and Sabino Jaregi, and they were awesome, first and foremost.
00:07:33.000And they came in first meeting, they're like, look, you know, we're going to fight this thing, but just letting you know, if we lose, you're going to do about four years.
00:07:53.000As time progressed, and as they denied me bail, there was a gentleman, I don't remember the name, that he was the first person to go to trial, and I believe his name is Guy Raffet.
00:08:05.000And I went to trial, and there was a big situation with that, and he got seven years.
00:08:10.000He went to trial, he stood his ground, he took the stand in his defense, and the jury still found him guilty.
00:08:17.000And we'll get into juries in a second.
00:09:24.000The PSI comes back, which is a recommendation by the probation officer.
00:09:28.000The judges almost, at least in South Florida, because I've had other cases since my first rodeo, they usually almost 100% of the time go with what's called the PSI. PSI comes back at 14 years.
00:12:11.000And then after that, the DOJ actually appealed, before we were able to put an appeal, the DOJ appealed our sentence because it was too low.
00:12:26.000When it's a tough crime, when it's a crime that's actually violence, when it's a crime that he probably should prosecute to the full extent of the law, he decides not to, and he opts out of that.
00:12:34.000And that's the reason why D.C. is such a train wreck these days.
00:12:37.000But to hear that they were appealing your sentence because they still wanted the 33 years is a gut check at that point.
00:12:44.000Because, I mean, 22 years for a man your age, that is a massive chunk of your life.
00:12:50.000That's a life sentence, let's be honest.
00:13:26.000Because, again, we have the best president since George Washington, and he's kicking ass right now.
00:13:35.000I mean, he literally came and just wiped out the whole Biden administration agenda on day one, and that's something that the American people wanted him to do, so we're thankful for that.
00:13:43.000But, I mean, it's pretty crazy to sit here and look at what's happened to you.
00:13:47.000The trial itself, let's talk about the trial itself, because...
00:13:50.000Like we just briefly mentioned, it's in Washington, D.C. You're not going to get a fair jury.
00:13:54.000That's, again, against your constitutional rights.
00:13:56.000You should have the right to have a fair jury.
00:13:58.000But you're talking about a place that literally has a majority of federal employees.
00:14:02.000They don't agree with us politically on most.
00:14:04.000I think Joe Biden won it back in 2020 by over 90% of the vote.
00:15:58.000And they're like, are you sure that if I present to you the prosecution presents the evidence and I tell you what's correct and what's not that you can't judge this?
00:17:37.000I mean, because that would be the best thing for the rest of the country.
00:17:43.000So they could see exactly what a liberal utopia looks like.
00:17:48.000And it's not going to be anything like a utopia, but we're seeing it already in multiple cities, but I want them to do what they want.
00:17:56.000They're still held back a little bit, but I want them to do what they want.
00:17:59.000So in that sense, I'm a little different.
00:18:02.000Well, you know, I mean, in New York City, they received an abundance of illegal aliens.
00:18:08.000And as a result, if you look at how the 2024 election turned out for New York City, in every borough, Trump was able to win over more voters than he's done previously.
00:18:16.000And it's numbers that we've never seen amongst Republican candidates.
00:18:19.000And so, yeah, like you said, I think a lot of people are waking up to it because you're forcing it on them to admit that, no, this isn't racist to support this.
00:18:25.000This is actually factually true that people should legally come into our country.
00:18:28.000And if you want them to follow the law, chances are if they're coming in by breaking the law, it's not going to go over too well.
00:18:33.000But that's what this country is learning.
00:18:34.000They're learning these lessons in the tough way.
00:18:36.000I want to talk about the DOJ, though, with you, because obviously the DOJ was gunning for you.
00:18:40.000It was a persecution, not a prosecution.
00:18:42.000And I think everyone needs to drive home that point.
00:18:44.000When I talk to J6ers, everyone would go over about how, like, last minute evidence dumps happen, where a couple of days before the big trial, they would get all these documents that are humanly impossible for you to go over.
00:18:56.000And inside it would be like a gem that you would need to defend yourself.
00:19:00.000And if you weren't properly staffed with attorneys and their office is properly staffed, you might not be able to present that evidence at your trial.
00:19:08.000And that's one of the many ways that they were able to railroad you.
00:19:10.000Even forcing trials into the Oath Keeper's trial, their attorneys were like, hold on a second, we're not ready yet.
00:19:17.000We haven't gotten all of our evidence yet.
00:19:18.000And the judge just continued to just push it through.
00:19:22.000So during your trial, were there any things that really kind of stood out that, and I joke when I say that because I know there was a lot, but is there anything that really stood out that you thought that DOJ was railroading you guys?
00:19:49.000The judge allowed him to go through anyways.
00:19:52.000I don't know if anybody is, people viewing this have used Telegram, but if I go ahead and I message you and I'm like, do you like chocolate cake?
00:23:34.000And when we brought them up, one of these FBI informants that was in the Proud Boys for years was a person that He played a major role.
00:23:46.000And inside the Capitol, he actually got a pedestal and he stopped a garage door from closing, which gave the rest of the people access to other areas of the Capitol that weren't accessible before.
00:24:00.000And when we ask him, we're like, well, are you allowed to do this?
00:24:04.000Yes, they are allowed to commit crimes in order to further their information gathering.
00:24:12.000But again, I can go on about all the things that happened to my trial.
00:24:16.000You've got to remember that this is the biggest, in U.S. history, this is the biggest operation by the Department of Justice, the most amount of indictments for political cause, the biggest amount of evidence.
00:24:31.000I mean, there was terabytes and terabytes.
00:24:34.000When we received our, it's hard to go through.
00:25:05.000But you don't have a moment to go through all of that evidence.
00:25:08.000And a lot of it's nothing that's relevant in the first place.
00:25:10.000It's just dumping to waste time and also to eventually your lawyer is going to bill you for it and it's going to bankrupt you because you have to pay these legal fees on top of everything.
00:25:18.000So, that's a tactic of, like, civil litigation.
00:25:22.000You know, we hadn't really seen it in criminal litigation by the DOJ until these cases came along, where they just do a file dump at such a magnitude.
00:25:30.000I mean, I've been sued, and a whole bunch of J6s, I've been sued.
00:25:36.000I mean, right now, with judgments honed, I think I'm in, like, the eight or nine figures.
00:26:52.000I want to ask you, you mentioned that the FBI special agent, Nicole Miller, I think you said her name was, was listening in on calls that were between you and your attorney.
00:29:41.000But put somebody else in my shoes that doesn't have throttle control?
00:29:48.000And it would have been a bad situation.
00:29:49.000When you do this to somebody, when you put somebody in jail for this, you have to ask yourself, as the prosecuting party, if I do this, will this person rationalize by the punishment, or am I going to radicalize them by the punishment?
00:30:13.000And I can't tell you That I rationalized.
00:30:19.000I can't tell you I came out of prison a better person.
00:30:22.000I couldn't come out a better person because I was already a good person.
00:30:58.000And we're supposed to have faith in our justice system.
00:31:00.000And at this point, after following all these trials, because I started off and honestly didn't know much about the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, none of you guys at the beginning part in all of this.
00:31:07.000And I start following, I'm watching all you guys get railroaded at your trials.
00:31:11.000And it's not the system that we all think it is.
00:31:13.000And I think that's the point we need to drive home here.
00:31:14.000A lot of Americans think that our justice system is blind, but it's not blind.
00:31:17.000And the prosecutors know exactly how to manipulate it their way, and they did just that against all of you.
00:32:24.000There was this moment in Petersburg, Virginia where I went three weeks with no soap, no shower, no toothpaste, no toothbrush, no deodorant.
00:32:39.000I mean, I looked and smelled like an ape.
00:32:45.000And the transit, it's called diesel therapy.
00:32:49.000And what they do is, They keep you in transit so you won't be in one place comfortably as punishment.
00:32:59.000And it's probably like the worst punishment because you don't get to get comfortable.
00:33:04.000And to some point, and the most insidious thing about this whole thing, and I hate it, I hate it, is how easy someone gets used to it.
00:33:13.000So it wasn't torture to me anymore as much as just kick back and relax.
00:33:20.000I remember my last experience, and it was actually, it's not supposed to be funny, but it was funny to me, is my last experience was, and it happened like two, three months ago.
00:33:33.000I was back in the D.C. Gulag, and they had to transfer me over to Pollock, Louisiana, and they had to bring me to Kentucky.
00:33:48.00014-hour drive from D.C. to Rayson County, Kentucky.
00:33:55.000And it's the first time in a long time that I was able to be with J6ers.
00:40:01.000But, I mean, the fact that there's someone calling the shots, probably someone who's not within the prison itself, but they're...
00:40:06.000Just keep shuffling them around because there's purpose in all of this.
00:40:11.000There's a goal here while they're doing it.
00:40:12.000They're trying to break you and they're trying to potentially create an issue for you and maybe create a situation where you might break and want to work with prosecutors potentially.
00:43:45.000I don't do it And it makes it so much more amazing because the fact that he's human and he's been able to fight back and he's been able to win 100% of the time is beyond anything I've ever seen.
00:44:06.000It's pretty inspiring, to be honest with you.
00:44:08.000And I took that inspiration when they did that, where they put that paper in front of me and they're like, this is the truth.
00:44:17.000I'll be like, no, actually, none of it's high grip.
00:48:06.000I want to talk about this because I think this is an important part here.
00:48:09.000The plea deal that they were offering you, from my understanding, was that they were going to try to get you to discuss President Trump's involvement in January 6th as if there was a connection between you and President Trump.
00:48:20.000Was that what was on that piece of paper when they slid it your way?
00:49:12.000And they were hoping that you were going to do so with somebody between the two of you because they knew that you didn't know President Trump directly from what you've told me.
00:49:20.000So I want to dive into that a little bit.
00:49:22.000And obviously I know that this is something that's going to be going on for quite some time for you.
00:49:27.000So I know you can't dive into all details.
00:49:29.000But I do want to talk about that because I think that's what the American people want to hear.
00:49:32.000How desperate the DOJ was to go after President Trump.
00:51:44.000And if there's anything I can do with my four guys or any other of my guys that wear that laurel, this laurel, If there's anything, to me, protection by any means necessary for them is number one.
00:52:00.000If I have to kill my reputation for it, if I gotta take...
00:52:04.000There's so many people that say, I'll take a bullet for you.
00:52:07.000If a person tells you that, it's bullshit.
00:52:11.000And I do that because I know that they would be willing to do the same thing.
00:52:18.000I know Joe Biggs would do that for me.
00:53:16.000And he didn't do the actions that they were trying to say that he did.
00:53:20.000Which I think is, can you detail a little bit what's on that piece of paper?
00:53:26.000For legal reasons, I can't, I will be able to talk about it at one point, but, you know, just, I'll tell you what this, it was, if George R. R. Martin would ever finish his fifth book, this is a story he would write.
00:53:44.000So I'll tell you, that's what I'll tell you about it.
00:53:47.000There is no way in hell I was going to do that.
00:54:15.000I'd be putting myself in legal jeopardy if I tell you exactly what was going on in that room.
00:54:21.000Yeah, we've got to get the president to get you immunity for this.
00:54:24.000I think it's interesting to talk about these things because to see the lens that they went to is crazy.
00:54:31.000And from my understanding, there was supposed to be a person in between the two of you as they drafted it to be the individual who was communicating back and forth between President Trump and yourself.
00:54:41.000I'm sure you can't disclose it, but I'm going to ask you anyway.
00:54:44.000Is this somebody who is a close ally of yours?
00:54:46.000Is this somebody who was even made aware they were looking to do this?
00:55:11.000Yeah, it's interesting to see how that even takes place.
00:55:13.000I do hope President Trump can give you immunity for that so we can talk about it.
00:55:19.000I think the American people need to know how far our DOJ went under Joe Biden to go after their political opponents and President Trump, obviously, as well.
00:55:29.000But I think that's really, really important.
00:55:45.000Yeah, and I've gone through, because I've read some of your court transcripts, and I did notice that you have worked with law enforcement in the past.
00:56:07.000In retrospect, after what we've seen here, the situation in 2013 was a criminal organization that ran different types of black market situations, but their main method of business was sex trafficking.
00:56:33.000So, like, I'm not here to try to hail myself as some type of hero that took down some criminal organization or some shit.
00:56:59.000But some of the stories that came out, they kind of mix my work with the federal government to that portion that happened in 2013. And I ran operations in some of those cases.
00:57:25.000I think that some of those Some of those police officers that were there that day, some of them, not the ones that were clout chasers like f***ing Pussy, Michael Fanone, or what's the other, what's the big thing?
00:57:39.000Harry Donnie, the one who committed perjury during the upkeepers trial too, but he's out there crying.
00:57:42.000I mean, he had the best platform to run for Congress and he's a loser.
00:58:20.000Benefit of the doubt to some of those people that have that argument that they swore an oath to protect the Constitution, and some of those people were there.
00:58:28.000Actually, all those people were there projecting their freedom of speech and defending free speech by being there.
00:58:36.000But, like, those cops' job, they're cops, right?
01:00:30.000And the thing that came up in court, I believe, that while this is why people are confusing that, I think, with being an informant, that you worked with...
01:00:39.000Local law enforcement often when you and your guys would go out to protest and obviously that's Antifa who's going to be there.
01:01:24.000Up until December 12th, I was very successful at that goal.
01:01:27.000Every event that I either put together or attended with my guys, there was no arrests.
01:01:33.000there was no injuries um and uh since it's my responsibility to do that when we go into a city city like cesspools like portland we pick we pick the worst cities to be But it's the cities that have the problem, right?
01:01:54.000Portland, Seattle, we saw what they did with Chaz, Austin, surprising in Texas.
01:02:22.000I march on the streets, on the sidewalk, wherever I could that I don't bother law enforcement.
01:02:30.000And I call law enforcement to make sure that My guys and any counter-protesters are kept at a safe distance.
01:02:39.000It is my job to make sure my guys come home safe, and that is what it takes to do it.
01:02:47.000You're not supposed to be afraid of that.
01:02:50.000Obviously, we are now because we know how they operate, and I'd still be kind of skeptical about one agency.
01:03:00.000Kash Patel has probably the hardest job besides the president's because it's probably the most corrupt agency.
01:03:09.000I mean, it's been corrupt ever since Hoover started it.
01:03:12.000But you're supposed to trust law enforcement.
01:03:19.000You're supposed to trust them, but we can't.
01:03:22.000We've come to a point in America where we don't trust those institutions.
01:03:26.000I was always in a different mind state about law enforcement.
01:03:28.000I've changed a little bit my views on law enforcement, but I'm not going to apologize.
01:03:37.000Well, do you regret, because it was used against you during your J6 trial, do you regret orchestrating with local PD? Because the accusations you were facing during your J6 trial was that you orchestrated January 6th, even though you weren't present.
01:03:50.000That was the argument they were trying to make.
01:03:52.000And so they were trying to kind of, from what I could see just from reading it, say that the experience is...
01:03:57.000Previously that you had by orchestrating with local law enforcement kind of made it seem like this was what you were doing.
01:05:31.000I didn't plan on doing it, but if I wanted to do it, it would have been successful.
01:05:38.000I mean, we're talking about conservatives who, and this is why the left likes to lie, and they're very misleading, but they like to make claims that...
01:06:08.000I think it's so crazy that they make the argument, though, that you guys were orchestrating all of this and that they did it.
01:06:14.000I mean, they try to make it seem like it was an insurrection, obviously, that's their big narrative.
01:06:18.000But we're talking about 2A, conservative Americans, who if they really wanted to do what they were accused of doing, they would have came armed.
01:06:25.000And then you see those on the left, Democrats, come out and they say, oh, well, they were armed.
01:06:29.000Well, not a single one of them were actually charged with that.
01:06:32.000I know also they like to talk about Officer Sicknick, who died of natural causes.
01:06:36.000We know that because that's what it says.
01:07:13.000I mean, listen, in our trial, if they would have charged us with like jaywalking, treason, money laundering, like they could have put any charge on there that was like so obvious that we're innocent of, that jury in DC would have found us guilty.
01:07:32.000That judge would have granted them full...
01:07:38.000Four rights to do whatever the hell they want.
01:07:40.000Those prosecutors would have came down.
01:07:41.000So I'm actually really surprised actually that nobody got a manslaughter charge for that.
01:07:47.000And I think it has to do with the autopsy and the hurdle.
01:07:50.000I mean, let me not say hurdle or grand jury indictment because the grand jury indicted me for a document that I never even opened or read.
01:10:07.000So, this guy, it was a war game document, right?
01:10:13.000The original, the very, very original document, and I can't, not that I can't get into it now, but I need to get some more information on the actual origins of the document, but the...
01:10:25.000The document, as we state, is a CIA war game, right?
01:10:47.000And it was put together by somebody that...
01:10:50.000Put together a CIA. Now, he sent it over to another friend of mine, which forwarded it to me, and if I could show you my phone, I'd show you that I get a million messages in the network.
01:11:09.000But I never opened the document because I never f***ing saw it.
01:11:14.000That's what they used to use the grand jury and how the f*** they got me because they took a year and a half for the grand jury to indict me.
01:11:21.000And how they got me is they finally unlocked my phone and they found this document that they knew I never read, opened, edited.
01:11:55.0002016 was a revolution, but I think 2024 is top soon.
01:12:01.000And for the record, by the way, the individual, we're not going to say the name, but the individual who sent this to you in your phone, I won't even talk about, but they...
01:12:47.000At this point, I wanted to drive home that this was somebody who knew that you were being railroaded and wanted to not partake in that behavior because they knew that something was very wrong about this.
01:12:54.000They're trying to nab everybody and trying to throw shit at the wall, and they had this giant shit truck with a fire hose, and they're just hitting the wall.
01:13:17.000It's because of D.C. It's D.C. Well, actually, I remember at the very beginning of the trials, there was one J6 defendant who actually was found not guilty by the judge.
01:13:26.000They waived their right to have a jury.
01:13:28.000And I was like, well, maybe that's a winning strategy in D.C. Yeah, it is.
01:13:32.000Actually, you do better with not much better.
01:15:09.000I told her, hey, let's get some media out at the airport so I won't have to f***ing deal with them all the time because I kind of want to just get home and grill.
01:15:20.000So she brought in and was like, dude, it was like about a hundred cameramen and news crews and all of that.
01:15:26.000And what they did is they went in a stack formation, right?
01:16:53.000She's kept me in the loop on all of this.
01:16:54.000And she's definitely someone who, I mean, I was joking with you, but I'm like, I don't know if my parents would ever do this for me.
01:17:00.000But she's been someone who's been by your side in all of this and taking on the media because there's a lot to take on because they have been bashing your character and who you are as an individual and the organization, the Proud Boys and going after all of you.
01:17:12.000So I think it's laughable that they were actually very violent themselves.
01:17:15.000Well, when you get on Crowder and you call the judge a piece of s***, Yeah, you could expect a little bit of heat back, but it's true.
01:21:06.000Are you the former leader of the Proud Boys?
01:21:09.000So, we've made a decision about three years ago, almost before I came in, that we're not going to be publicly stating what our structure is.
01:23:26.000I actually just got a letter from her this morning, which broke my heart because she was counting down the days until she thought she was going to be released.
01:24:08.000I didn't know that she wasn't pardoned so I feel really bad that I haven't kept up with that.
01:24:15.000Not only Bevelyn, there's other anti-abortion pro-life anti-abortion pro-life demonstrators that I was actually in transit with one because I've been in transit with probably everybody that's in the BOP. I've been in transit with them.
01:26:03.000A way that we could start is we could get the government to start paying out to these families that have been affected by political persecution.
01:26:22.000And I think a lot of these people who...
01:26:24.000I think that investigations also should lead to those who are involved, judges, prosecutors, everyone who touched these cases, to be disbarred because you should not be allowed to practice law or have anything in the justice system after allowing what took place to take place.
01:26:38.000And it's the only way that we could restore faith in the justice system if people are publicly punished for what's taken place.
01:26:43.000But so far, I mean, obviously we're just a few days into the new administration, but we haven't seen anything coming out of a lot of the Crossfire Hurricane characters.