Posted on 03/10/2023 8:23:10 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors are employing an unusual strategy to prove leaders of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group 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.
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.
Defense attorneys have dismissed the “tools” theory as a novel, flawed concept with no legal foundation. They argue that the Justice Department is trying to unfairly hold their clients responsible for the violent actions of others in the crowd of Trump supporters. Tarrio, for example, wasn’t even in Washington on Jan. 6.
The seditious conspiracy trial, which started nearly two months ago, is one of the most serious cases to emerge from the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and comes as some conservatives continue to try to downplay the riot and push false narratives about what happened that day.
Prosecutors this week publicly identified nearly two dozen Proud Boys members and associates they say served as “tools.” All but one of the 23 people named as “tools” have been publicly and separately charged with Capitol riot-related crimes.
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Anyone who knows the origins of the “Proud Boys” knows that they are a ridiculous social club dedicated to drinking and posturing.
AP?
The Pride Boys, a group of fed plants with homoerotic overtones, pretty much the same as the 2% meal team six types and the oath breakers.
To be more accurate - FBI deployed foot soldiers in sedition plot, American Citizens say!
bkmk
So what about the attack on a police station in Atlanta, Merrick?
Does that not count or are you just busy continuing your political coup?
...as opposed to the Federal/Global coup that DID get President Trump out of office?
More projection from the REAL evil.
Hey! Look! Squirrel!
Precisely.
Probably a lot of drinking heh.
Feds proven to have destroyed evidence and manufactured evidence. The feds no longer people that I could trust their word under oath or otherwise.
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Pssst...look over here. Stop looking at the January 6th video!
Big G will always defend itself. Maintaining a narrative that supports the establishment is job one for all federal agencies. No one joins the bureaucracy unless they believe in the bureaucracy.
All the while, antifa runs wild and nothing happens to them.
and comes as some conservatives continue to try to downplay the riot and push false narratives about what happened that day.
I despise these propagandists.
“Meal Team Six”
That’s hilarious!
All the while, antifa runs wild and nothing happens to them.
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They get to be as seditious and insurrectionist as they like without anyone in the MSM or government calling them as such. I wonder why? /s
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