The Saturday night time encounter happened when a member of Trump’s home-base nation membership invited Tarrio and his mom, Zuny Duarte, to dinner on the Florida resort, The New York Times reported Sunday. The member launched the 2 to the president as he walked by in the principle room, an unnamed White House official advised the newspaper.
Duarte mentioned Trump acknowledged Tarrio’s title ― “Oh, you’re that guy” ― and even knew the names of his co-defendants within the case, the Times wrote.
I simply had an awesome dialog with @POTUS. He referred to as me and my Mother over whereas we had been at dinner and mentioned he was sorry for what @JoeBiden did to all J6ers. He knew the hardships me and my household confronted for 3 lengthy years. He knew what number of occasions they moved me. And he mentioned he’s engaged on making issues proper. I thanked him for giving me my life again. He replied with…I Love You guys. To the J6ers he wished me to ship yall a message… He mentioned…Thank you.
The White House didn’t reply to the Times’ request for remark.
In 2023, Tarrio, the previous nationwide chair of the Proud Boys, was convicted and sentenced to 22 years in jail for seditious conspiracy and different crimes associated to the Jan. 6 rebel try to overturn the 2020 election outcomes. But Trump’s Inauguration Day pardon of almost all of the folks charged resulted in his launch from a Louisiana jail.
Days later, Tarrio mentioned it was investigators of the riot who belonged “behind bars.”
In February, Tarrio was arrested after Capitol police noticed him hit a lady’s cellphone and arm after she put the cellphone near his face in a gathering of J6 individuals on the Capitol.
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