'Make it a spectacle': Proud Boys leader Tarrio key to Jan. 6, U.S. says

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

One day after news networks declared President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, his campaign had a request for the Proud Boys: Members of the extremist group should attend rallies pushing Trump’s false claim that the election was stolen — but not in their recognizable black-and-yellow gear.

“The campaign asked us to not wear colors to these events,” Proud Boys leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio told one of his closest deputies in an encrypted Nov. 8, 2020, chat, according to court evidence.

Eight weeks later and days before Jan. 6, 2021, the Proud Boys chairman confided further to multiple girlfriends about members’ preparations for violence and the possibility of storming the Capitol.

“Whatever happens … make it a spectacle,” the 39-year-old Miami-born Cuban American said in a final text to another lieutenant and co-defendant as police arrested Tarrio on his arrival in D.C. on Jan. 4, government exhibits and testimony show.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/01/proud-boys-trial-enrique-tarrio-jan6/

[jaxexpat]

1. Maybe I'm just genetically predisposed and susceptible to suggestion, but......

every time I read "Miami-born Cuban American," I see a very exclusive club which would include Marco Rubio as well as many people whose grandfather or uncle worked for the CIA in the 60's. Miami's a small town and little Havana is super small.

[H2O Man]

2. Rafael Cruz's father.

[calimary]

3. "... confided further to multiple girlfriends"?

“Multiple girlfriends”? What is he? Some self-anointed Casanova or something?

And who’s be stupid enough to date this jerk?

[Karadeniz]

4. The campaign told them....

[Lulu Latech]

5. Who???

Who at the Campaign told him this? That seems to be a vital piece of info.

[wiggs]

6. ...maybe the defense will bring this connection into the PB trial but if they don't

it's not relevant to the prosecution who at the campaign requested this. I would think it's VERY relevant to Jack Clark and DOJ.

[orangecrush]

7. The American Wagner group

You got a preview of it on January 6th.