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

Rhodes’ appearance came the day after he was released from prison as a result of Trump’s order of clemency benefitting the more than 1,500 people charged with federal crimes in the Jan. 6

Stewart Rhodes,, the leader of the far-right extremist group Oath Keepers convicted of seditious conspiracy in the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, visited Capitol Hill on Wednesday following President Donald Trump's commutation of his 18-year prison sentence.

Stewart Rhodes, the former head of the Oath Keepers militia, was among Jan. 6 inmates freed under President Trump's pardons and commutations.

The founder of the right-wing 'Oath Keepers' militia, who himself was recently had his 18-year- prison sentence commuted, appeared outside of D.C.'s Central Det

Four years after they raided the Capitol and assaulted police officers, a group of some of the most violent Jan. 6 rioters are now free men.

The Oath Keepers founder met with Republican Rep. Gus Bilirakis of Florida to lobby for a pardon for fellow Oath Keeper and January 6 rioter Jeremy Brown, who was sentenced to seven years in prison on weapons charges.

A federal judge in Washington on Friday sentenced Kellye SoRelle, a top lawyer for the Oath Keepers militia group, to 12 months in prison for her involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Kellye SoRelle was among the last Jan. 6 defendants to receive a sentence before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated. Trump has indicated he may pardon hundreds of rioters.

Rhodes had been convicted in one of the most serious cases prosecuted by the DOJ stemming from the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

Stewart Rhodes and Enrique Tarrio were released from serving lengthy prison terms for convictions of seditious conspiracy.

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