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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Richard Hall

A former Proud Boys leader was freed from a 17-year prison sentence by Trump. Then his problems began

On the day Joe Biggs found out he was being released from a lengthy jail sentence by the newly inaugurated Donald Trump, a prison officer was on hand to dampen his mood.

“You're still gonna get screwed,” Biggs recalls the guard warning him. “You're not getting pardoned. You're only getting your sentence commuted, so you're still a terrorist.”

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