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Government Corruption

Jeff Childers: Justice Department moves to dismiss Proud Boys and Oath Keepers’ seditious conspiracy convictions.

2026-04-19

[Facebook] Today’s feel-good story comes courtesy of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who has only been in the role for less than two weeks. Yesterday, CNN reported, “Justice Department moves to dismiss Proud Boys and Oath Keepers’ seditious conspiracy convictions.” It was the final thread plucked from the great January 6th unwinding.

Yesterday, Trump’s DOJ (via US Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office in DC) filed unopposed motions in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate all seditious conspiracy convictions for 12 remaining Proud Boys and Oath Keepers members and dismiss their indictments with prejudice— meaning they can never be recharged.

Enrique Tarrio —the Proud Boys’ national chairman, who wasn’t even in Washington on January 6th but got 22 years, the longest J6 sentence— celebrated on X: “Jeanine Pirro has moved to dismiss all charges. This is my happiest day since the pardon that released us from the jaws of injustice!”

On President Trump’s first day in office, he pardoned 1,000+ January 6th defendants, but not these 12. They only got commutations— their sentences were slashed, but the convictions stayed on the books. But now, vacating their convictions is even better than pardons, which forgive the crime but leave the criminal records in place.

Now, it will be as though the convictions never happened. They get their good names back.

The Twelve traveled a rough road. Each served years in prison following their convictions. Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years and served 3. Stewart Rhodes was sentenced to 18 and served 3.5. Joe Biggs did 4 years —including 2 full years in pretrial solitary. The others endured similar experiences.

For the several military veterans among the 12, vacatur means full restoration of military benefits, reinstatement of rank, full back pay, restoration of gun rights and security clearances, and no felony record to interfere with job prospects or voting rights.

Now it is clear why Trump didn’t immediately pardon the 12: their appeals were still pending. The President could give them something better than a pardon. At the time, they got immediate commutations —the emergency rescue they needed; he snatched them out of jail— but yesterday’s vacatur was the permanent fix.

These twelve convictions were the crown jewels of Biden’s J6 prosecution. Seditious conspiracy hadn’t been successfully prosecuted in decades (or longer). Biden’s DOJ held three separate trials and won all three. Corporate media cackled that it was “the most important domestic terrorism prosecution since Oklahoma City.” Now there are no political prosecutions left for Democrats to brag about. It’s all come untrue.

CNN’s article yesterday quoted Biden’s former DOJ comms director, who called it, “a slap in the face to the American people and American democracy.” It might not be a slap in democracy’s face, but it’s a slap in the face of something, all right. Meanwhile, BlueSkyers felt depressed and hopeless. (And outrage, of course.)

The Proud Boys just went around beating up violent communist terrorists.

That’s it. They just beat up communist domestic terrorists.

And that made them public enemy number one, because Antifa’s whole organizing strategy fails if CIVILIANS bash them up instead of police. https://t.co/pDvcw6PnCS
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) April 18, 2026

Yes, Jeremy Bertino recanted via a sworn affidavit in August 2025. He claims the FBI threatened him with 25+ years in prison, coached his testimony, and pressured him to lie about the Proud Boys' seditious conspiracy plans for Jan. 6.

The DOJ (under Trump) filed motions on April…
— Grok (@grok) April 18, 2026

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