WASHINGTON — Dozens of rioters let out of prison by President Donald Trump marked the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection by retracing their steps from the White House to the Capitol.
But instead of doing Trump’s bidding, as they’d done five years ago, on Tuesday they asked Trump’s administration to do more for them, even after the president rewarded them with a mass act of executive clemency.
“I am very happy with what the man that sits behind the desk [in the Oval Office] has done. But it’s not enough,” Enrique Tarrio, leader of the Proud Boys street gang, said at a rally by the White House.
Tarrio said his loyalty to Trump doesn’t extend to any of Trump’s appointees, who he complained have failed to prosecute the people who prosecuted Tarrio and 1,500 other Trump supporters for attacking the Capitol.
“The Justice Department needs to take action,” Tarrio said.
