Proud Boys guilty of seditious conspiracy
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Serves those Antifa right!
"The result marked a significant victory for the Justice Department, which had invoked the rarely used seditious-conspiracy charge against members of the far-right group then- President Donald Trump told to “stand back and stand by” from the 2020 debate stage. During the trial, federal prosecutors said the Proud Boys were jubilant over the debate-stage remark and viewed themselves as “Donald Trump’s army” as the former president challenged his 2020 election defeat.
“The fact that the Proud Boys leaders are officially seditionists will surely hurt the Proud Boys’ arguments that they are merely a fraternal drinking club,” said Jon Lewis, a researcher at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University."
"In an address to jurors on April 25, prosecutor Nadia Moore outlined what she called the “devastating evidence of the defendants’ guilt.”
“Voting and protesting didn’t get these defendants what they wanted,” she said. “So they decided they would ignore the will of the people. They would influence the government with threats and violence. They saw a second Civil War coming, and they wanted to be on the front lines.”
Through weeks of trial proceedings, federal prosecutors presented jurors with messages and other evidence of an alleged scheme to keep Mr. Trump in office. After weeks of planning, with references to revolution and 1776, the Proud Boys effectively weaponized the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol, prosecutors said."
www.wsj.com
"The result marked a significant victory for the Justice Department, which had invoked the rarely used seditious-conspiracy charge against members of the far-right group then- President Donald Trump told to “stand back and stand by” from the 2020 debate stage. During the trial, federal prosecutors said the Proud Boys were jubilant over the debate-stage remark and viewed themselves as “Donald Trump’s army” as the former president challenged his 2020 election defeat.
“The fact that the Proud Boys leaders are officially seditionists will surely hurt the Proud Boys’ arguments that they are merely a fraternal drinking club,” said Jon Lewis, a researcher at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University."
"In an address to jurors on April 25, prosecutor Nadia Moore outlined what she called the “devastating evidence of the defendants’ guilt.”
“Voting and protesting didn’t get these defendants what they wanted,” she said. “So they decided they would ignore the will of the people. They would influence the government with threats and violence. They saw a second Civil War coming, and they wanted to be on the front lines.”
Through weeks of trial proceedings, federal prosecutors presented jurors with messages and other evidence of an alleged scheme to keep Mr. Trump in office. After weeks of planning, with references to revolution and 1776, the Proud Boys effectively weaponized the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol, prosecutors said."
Four Proud Boys Are Found Guilty of Seditious Conspiracy in Jan. 6 Case
A jury convicted members of far-right group on the gravest charge brought in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
www.wsj.com
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