Pardoned by President Donald Trump, former chairman of the Proud Boys Enrique Tarrio says his conviction was based on a document he never even opened.
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00:00But you weren't there at all, were you, on January 6th?
00:02No, I was not there at all. And they took about a year and change to come pick me up after January
00:106th, so they just didn't have the evidence. The evidence that they used at the grand jury
00:14indictment was a document that, again, it wasn't a nefarious document. It was called 1776 Returns.
00:23The government admits that I never opened that document. It was sent to me, but I never opened
00:28that document, never shared it, never read it. So already the prosecutor started on a bad foot,
00:38and they used that document to get a grand jury indictment for me. And the people of D.C.
00:49don't really like me or my guys. We go protest there all the time for different reasons.
00:57And they indicted me. But you could indict a ham sandwich is the saying here
01:03in the States when it comes to prosecuting the citizens of the country.