Five members of the Proud Boys who were convicted of seditious conspiracy and other charges in connection with the violent assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, sued the government for $100 million Friday, claiming that federal officials had subjected them to “political persecution” as “allies of President Trump.”

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Orlando, Florida, came nearly six months after President Donald Trump offered an expansive grant of clemency to all of the more than 1,500 people who had taken part in the attack. It was another attempt by rioters to flip the script about Jan. 6 and blame the Justice Department and the FBI for engaging in what the complaint called “a corrupt and politically motivated” prosecution.

In the years since Jan. 6, Trump has repeatedly sought to rewrite the history of the riot, claiming it was a “day of love” despite the fact that more than 140 police officers were injured by the mob. Since his return to the White House, he also has claimed that the Biden administration unfairly prosecuted him and many of his allies — even while setting up a special task force inside the Justice Department designed to pursue retributive investigations against his own adversaries.

Much of the lawsuit submitted by the five Proud Boys — Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs, Ethan Nordean, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola — sought to relitigate legal questions that had not gone their way during a lengthy pretrial period and a multiweek trial in U.S. District Court in Washington that ended in May 2023 with guilty verdicts against all of them.