Some members of the group appear to have connections to the President’s longtime friend and political adviser Roger Stone, according to Stone’s testimony for his 2019 criminal case related to the Russia investigation.
Trump refuses to condemn White supremacists at presidential debate They say despite the videos, McInnes has refuted claims that he is anti-Semitic and racist. The Anti-Defamation League, citing videos posted to social media from McInnes’ radio show, says he has previously posted videos of himself giving the Nazi salute, saying, “Heil Hitler,” defending Holocaust deniers and repeatedly using racial and anti-Semitic slurs. “Justified violence feels great and fighting solves everything.” “Violence doesn’t feel good,” he said in the same speech. The group was created by Gavin McInnes, a co-founder of Vice, in 2016, according to a Proud Boys website.īefore he quit the group in late 2018, McInnes said in a speech that the Proud Boys weren’t going to pick fights, “but if they pick fights with us, we’re going to finish them.” In response to the violence, the President said at the time that there were “very fine people on both sides” of the protests, which included White supremacists. It also provided further fuel for Biden’s claims that the President has emboldened right-wing extremist groups since the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which a neo-Nazi drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing one woman.īiden has frequently cited Trump’s response to that as motivating him to run for the presidency. Trump defends his Charlottesville comments after Biden slams them But members are often seen carrying firearms, bats and donning protective gear, and some have been convicted of crimes against anti-fascist protesters. In online statements, Proud Boys have claimed they have only used violence in self-defense. Tarrio said he interpreted “stand back and stand by” as meaning they should just keep doing what they’re doing.Īlthough it claims a diverse membership – Tarrio says he is Cuban American – the Proud Boys group lists among its central tenets a belief in “closed borders” and the aim of “reinstating a spirit of Western chauvinism.” ĬNN’s Elle Reeve spoke with Enrique Tarrio, the group’s leader, who said while he was happy about the President’s comments, he doesn’t see it as an endorsement. Now, they’re turning it into profit by selling merchandise with the comment on it. Others treated the President’s choice of the words “stand by” as a sort of rallying cry – and have since been promoting it. Some emblazoned the phrase “stand back and stand by” onto the group’s logos. Portland on edge as far-right group holds rally with counterprotesters nearby Members of the Proud Boys and other right-wing demonstrators rally on Saturday, Sept.
0 kommentar(er)
