Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio says he received a staggering 22-year prison sentence in his Jan. 6 case because he refused to agree to demands from the Department of Justice (DOJ) to lie about President Donald Trump.
According to Tarrio, Democrat President Joe Biden’s DOJ demanded that he give a false statement linking Trump to Jan. 6 in exchange for a reduced sentence.
However, when Tarrio refused to take the deal, the court threw the book at him.
Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in prison for the protests in Washington D.C., despite the fact that he wasn’t even at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
“They asked me to LIE about President Trump in order to indict him,” Enrique Tarrio said.
“I told them to pound sand, and because I refused to lie about President Trump it cost me twenty-two years of my life.”
“The truth is, I could have been home,” said Tarrio.
“I could have been home a long time ago.
“I could be in my warm ass bed right now, laughing at the world, without a problem…and all I had to do in order to do that WAS LIE ABOUT TRUMP.
“All I had to do was confirm a lie.”
The now-convicted Jan. 6 defendant then averred that the DOJ was trying to orchestrate a case tying Trump to the events at the Capitol with false testimony.
He added that DOJ prosecutors attempted to coerce him into signing a false statement that would implicate Trump.
The statement, he revealed, would have seen him going on the record by swearing that “through several degrees of separation and connections, Tarrio had communicated with Trump regarding ‘plans’ for January 6th.”
During an appearance on “The Absolute Truth” with Emerald Robinson, Tarrio made a similar claim about the DOJ’s attempts to frame Trump.
He also sought to dispel rumors about being an FBI “informant.”
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