Pardoned Proud Boys leader Enrique Torres says he’s gone from rotting in prison to hanging out at President Trump’s luxury Mar-a-Lago estate — and now plans to run for political office.
“Two weeks ago I was in prison and just last night I was in Mar-a-Lago at the president’s house,” Tarrio, 40, told Newsmax late Wednesday, after his “great two weeks” of freedom since Trump pardoned him and 1,600 other Jan. 6 prisoners.
Tarrio, who is still a Proud Boys member, did not say why he was at the Florida estate, nor whom he met, while the president was in the Capitol this week.
He did, however, tell “Greg Kelly Reports” that he soon ditched his initial plans to “relax” during his newfound freedom and just “kick back” and watch movies.
“And that’s not what I’ve done at all … I’ve kind of just jumped back on the horse,” he said.
“I think my future is in politics. I think I’m going to take a serious look at running for office at some point in 2026 or 2028, and I believe that there is a path for that because it is my passion.”
Tarrio said he plans to “take [his] time with picking what office specifically” he will run for.
“Is it going to be local? Is it going to be at a federal level? I don’t know, but I will tell you that I have made a decision,” he said.
Tarrio was not at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but was convicted of seditious conspiracy for helping to orchestrate his group’s storming of the Capitol, in part based on texts he sent that day.
He served just 16 months of his 22-year sentence — one of the longest issued by a judge in a Jan. 6 case.