Federal prosecutors: Proud Boys leader used violent 'foot soldiers' to keep Trump in office

10 March 2023

Many MAGA Republicans working for pro-Donald Trump right-wing media outlets have been claiming that it is inaccurate to describe the events of January 6, 2021 as an "insurrection" or "sedition." But members of the far-right Proud Boys are facing federal seditious conspiracy charges in connection with the attack on the United States Capitol Building that occurred that day. And federal prosecutors, according to Associated Press (AP) reporter Michael Kunzelman, are "employing an unusual strategy to prove" that leaders of the Proud Boys "orchestrated a violent plot to keep President Joe Biden out of the White House, even though some of the defendants didn't carry out the violence themselves."

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who lives in South Florida, was not physically present in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021. But he is among the members of the group who is on trial for seditious conspiracy, and federal prosecutors allege that he coordinated a violent plot to keep now-President Joe Biden out of the White House.

Kunzelman, in an article published on March 10, reports, "As they wrap up their seditious conspiracy case, prosecutors are arguing that Proud Boys chief Enrique Tarrio and other leaders of the group handpicked and mobilized a loyal group of foot soldiers — or 'tools' — to supply the force necessary to carry out their plot to stop the transfer of power from Donald Trump to President Joe Biden after the 2020 election. These 'tools' helped Proud Boys leaders overwhelm police, breach barricades, force the evacuation of the House and Senate chambers and disrupt the certification of Biden’s victory, prosecutors allege."

Other members of the Proud Boys who are on trial for seditious conspiracy include Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola.

Read the Associated Press’ full report at this link.

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