The return of battle-hardened leaders ... will further radicalize and fuel recruitment platforms,” said Jacob Ware, a Council on Foreign Relations research fellow.

Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers who was convicted of seditious conspiracy in relation to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, was in the Capitol complex on Wednesday to meet with GOP lawmakers

Stewart Rhodes and Enrique Tarrio were among the most prominent January 6 defendants had received some of the harshest punishments.

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, one of the most infamous Capitol rioters, was spotted in a congressional office building on Wednesday, just days after being set free by President Trump.

At least [in] the cases we looked at, these were people that actually love our country,’ Trump says of January 6 rioters

Stewart Rhodes was serving an 18-year prison sentence for seditious conspiracy when he was freed by President Trump.

The far-right Oath Keepers extremist group founder serving 18 years for the Capitol riot visited Capitol Hill after President Trump freed him.

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, the far-right extremist group leader convicted of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, has visited Capitol Hill after President Donald Trump commuted his 18-year prison sentence.

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was spotted at the U.S. Capitol just days after President Trump commuted his 18-year prison sentence for his role in the Jan. 6 riots.

Rhodes and Tarrio were two of the highest-profile defendants Jan. 6 defendants and received some of the harshest punishments in what became the largest investigation in Justice Department history. Their attorneys confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday they had been released hours after Trump pardoned,

The newly freed founder of the anti-government group the Oath Keepers stood outside the D.C. jail early Tuesday, awaiting the release of Jan. 6 defendants after President Donald Trump issued sweeping pardons,