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Quote, they have never been more dangerous.

We begin today with a chilling warning about the nexus of domestic violent extremism and

an emboldened president with a year's long affinity for the far right.

It comes from one of the prosecutors of the largest Justice Department investigation in our history,

the probe into the January 6th insurrection, which netted more than 1,600 arrests and put the

leaders of some of the most violent militias in the country in prison for decades on charges of seditious conspiracy.

But it was all just undone by a mass pardon from the man who, as Liz Cheney puts it,

lit the flame of the attack in the first place.

Writing in the New York Times, former federal prosecutor Brendan Ballou writes this, quote,

while some convicted rioters seem genuinely remorseful, and others appear simply ready to put politics

behind them, many others are emboldened by the termination of what they see as unjust

prosecutions. freed by the president, they have never been more dangerous.

Takes Stuart Rhodes, whose oathkeepers group staged firearms and ammunition near Washington

on January 6th in anticipation of a, quote, bloody and desperate fight.

Or Enrique Tario, whose proud boys led rioters into the Capitol and who had declared just after the 2020 election that while he and his followers would not start a civil war, they would be sure to, quote, finish one.

They're now free to pursue revenge and have already said they want it.

As we reported earlier this week,

Retribution appears to have been on Amrique Tario's mind

the minute he was released.

Watch.

Well, now it's Archer.

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