Enrique Tarrio, leader of the Donald Trump paramilitary organization, the Proud Boys, was sentenced in September 2023 to 22 years in prison for the role he played in organizing his gang of seditious punks to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in hopes of restoring Trump to his dictatorship and denying Joe Biden his rightful position as president.

Tarrio’s sentence was the result of his conviction several months ago on charges of seditious conspiracy.  

Tarrio’s co-defendants Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, and Dominic Pezzola were previously sentenced. So was Stewart Rhodes, the leader of another Trump-inspired paramilitary organization, the Oath Keepers.

U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly called Tarrio the “ultimate leader of that conspiracy” and had been “motivated by revolutionary zeal.”

Trump famously endorsed the violence of the Proud Boys by telling the organization during a presidential debate with Biden, to “stand back and stand by.”

Tarrio had long connections to the Trump friends like Roger Stone.

Prosecutors portrayed the Proud Boys during the trial as serving as “Donald Trump’s army” on January 6.

Tarrio later described the January 6 insurrection as a “national embarrassment,” Tarrio said, adding, “I am not a political zealot.”

No, you’re not.

You’re a traitor to the United States and should be stripped of your clothes, covered with butter and mushrooms, and slowly dragged through a village of starving cannibals.