In the last two weeks of December, they pushed Mr. Some urged him to declare martial law or take control by force. Trump’s legal efforts failed, the Proud Boys called for him on social media to use his presidential powers to stay in office. Trump’s legal team battled the election result with lawsuits, the Proud Boys closely followed the court cases and appeals in different states, posting frequent links in their Telegram channels to news reports.īut when Mr. “Now that he has left office, they believe he has both surrendered and failed to do his patriotic duty.”Īs Mr. “When Trump told them that if he left office, America would fall into an abyss, they believed him,” Arieh Kovler, a political consultant and independent researcher in Israel who studies the far right, said of the Proud Boys. At least four other members of the group also face charges stemming from the attack. On Wednesday, a Proud Boy leader, Joseph Biggs, 37, was arrested in Florida and charged with unlawful entry and corruptly obstructing an official proceeding in the riot. Trump has heightened after he did nothing to help those in the group who face legal action for the Capitol violence.
Trump, cut off on Facebook and Twitter, has been unable to talk directly to them to soothe their concerns or issue new rallying cries. On social media, Proud Boys participants have complained about his willingness to leave office and said his disavowal of the Capitol rampage was an act of betrayal. Trump, who later condemned the violence, has boiled over. Capitol.īut since then, discontent with Mr. 6, some Proud Boys members stormed the U.S. Trump that they offered to serve as his private militia and celebrated after he told them in a presidential debate last year to “stand back and stand by.” On Jan.
Led by Enrique Tarrio, many of its thousands of members were such die-hard fans of Mr. The comments are a startling turn for the Proud Boys, which for years had backed Mr.
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