{"id":934,"date":"2026-05-24T17:31:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T17:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/floridamovingchronicle.com\/?p=934"},"modified":"2026-05-24T17:31:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T17:31:33","slug":"proud-boys-leader-expects-tens-of-millions-from-trumps-anti-weaponization-fund-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/floridamovingchronicle.com\/?p=934","title":{"rendered":"Proud Boys leader expects &#8216;tens of millions&#8217; from Trump\u2019s anti-weaponization fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<article><!-- --><!-- --><!-- WPS-5038 -- removed the script from WPS and added the placeholder for trinity player --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- CONTENT --><!--[--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Enrique Tarrio, the former national head of the Proud Boys, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy for his role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol, says he will seek millions of dollars from the fund President Trump created to pay his supporters who believe they have been politically persecuted.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/floridamovingchronicle.com\/?p=933\">Toddler unintentionally shoots man in Delray Beach with unsecured gun, police say<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, people don\u2019t have to like me, but to say that I got 22 years correctly, is wrong,\u201d Tarrio told CBS News Miami. \u201cI was targeted, and I do believe that this fund does apply to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Tarrio said since President Trump announced the formation of the $1.8 billion so-called anti-weaponization fund, he has been inundated with calls from others convicted for January 6 related activities.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve gotten probably a million calls in the past three days from J-6ers that are like, OK, how does this work?\u201d Tarrio told CBS Miami\u2019s Jim DeFede. \u201cAnd I\u2019m like, look, I\u2019m not, I\u2019m not a guru. I don\u2019t, I don\u2019t know how this works. I can only speculate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The fund has drawn widespread outrage from both Democrats and Republicans in Congress as Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has offered no clear guidance on who would qualify for the money, or how it will be distributed. Blanche refused to rule out the notion that individuals convicted of assaulting police officers would be eligible to obtain money.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, I get the argument that, \u2018Oh, well, do these people that assault police officers get it?\u2019\u201d Tarrio responded \u201cAnd the truth is If they were weaponized against that, that is the parameter, if they were weaponized. It doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019re compensating these people just because they assaulted police officers, it\u2019s because of the system that they were in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI get it,\u201d Tarrio said. \u201cPeople that did bad things, you don\u2019t want to give money from the government to. But it doesn\u2019t matter because the baseline of this is weaponization. Were you persecuted?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Tarrio was convicted in May 2023 by a jury in Washington that found he helped orchestrate the attack on the Capitol from a hotel room in Baltimore. Prosecutors presented evidence showing Tarrio created a special chapter of the Proud Boys known as the \u201cMinistry of Self-Defense.\u201d The group\u2019s goal was to prevent the certification of the 2020 election in which Trump lost to Joe Biden. Prosecutors also revealed private messages to from Tarrio to senior leaders of the Proud Boys taking credit for the insurrection.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/floridamovingchronicle.com\/?p=931\">Overnight car burglary in Pinecrest ends with chase and crash in Broward, police say<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>According to the Justice Department, at least 140 law enforcement officers were injured during the attack, which went on for hours. U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly found that Tarrio\u2019s conduct was so egregious, it qualified as an act of terrorism and sentenced him to 22 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Tarrio served three years before Trump granted him, and the other 1,600 people convicted in the January 6 attack, a full pardon.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Exactly how much \u2014 if anything \u2014 Tarrio will receive is unclear.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Tarrio, who said he is currently the president of the South Florida chapter of the Proud Boys, said if he was looking for \u201csome type of restitution for the things that, like, I went through and my family was put through, yeah, I think it might be in the tens of millions.\u201d But he added he does not know how the money will be divided and the $1.8 billion might not be enough.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Tarrio predicted many of the January 6 individuals will be \u201cphilanthropic\u201d with their payouts from the fund.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you\u2019re going to see a lot of philanthropic endeavors come from this money when it comes to J-6ers,\u201d Tarrio said. \u201cJ-6ers are very adamant on creating changes. And I think that you\u2019ll see people start, you know, maybe some of them will use it to run for office. You know, local offices don\u2019t require a lot of money raised in order to campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Tarrio said he would also like to run for office someday in South Florida. He said his ultimate goal is to be elected to Congress.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Tarrio said he was grateful to President Trump.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI won\u2019t say I expected it to happen,\u201d he said. \u201cI think this is a campaign promise, making our lives whole. I think these are promises made, promises kept. I\u2019m very thankful to the President for everything he\u2019s done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/floridamovingchronicle.com\/?p=929\">South Florida teachers unions fight for survival under new state law<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p><i>This report was produced by Miami Herald news partner CBS News Miami.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--]--><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio says he will pursue millions from Trump&#39;s $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund after his January 6 conviction and pardon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miami-dade-county"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Proud Boys leader expects &#039;tens of millions&#039; 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