“We do not recognize the assumed authority of any national Proud Boy leadership including the Chairman, the Elders, or any subsequent governing body that is formed to replace them until such a time we may choose to consent to join those bodies of government.” “We reject and disavow the proven federal informant, Enrique Tarrio, and any and all chapters that choose to associate with him,” read a statement shared by the Indiana group’s state-level Telegram channel and on the Alabama group’s website, previously reported by USA Today. (Tarrio did not return a request for comment.)
states-including four local chapters in Indiana-now claim to have broken with the national organization over Tarrio’s work as a federal informant. But a Reuters report on Tarrio’s history as a federal informant cast members’ suspicions on their own leader, even as Proud Boys who allegedly participated in the riot face federal conspiracy charges. Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was arrested in Washington, D.C., two days before the riot, and now faces felony charges over the possession of illicit firearm magazines. But that paranoia has been ratcheted up in the aftermath of the riot, with the Proud Boys-a group that has seen a slew of members indicted-splintering under accusations that leaders have become informants or otherwise been compromised by the FBI. “He wants you to give him your real name, to show up to his event where your face will be visible, where your cellphone data will be in close proximity to his,” Casey said.įuentes didn’t respond to a request for comment.Īccusations that one-time allies have become federal informants aren’t uncommon in the extreme right, which has built up an entire lexicon of terms to describe the varieties of real or suspected federal infiltrators. He went on to suggest America First’s members would see the conference for what he thinks it could be: an FBI trap. Worst of all, Casey argued, Fuentes planned to gather all of his supporters in Orlando, where they could be easily recorded by federal investigators or informants. He also accused Fuentes of planning to drive cross-country, rather than fly, to the Florida conference because he suspected he was on the federal no-fly list, then concealing that possibility from his followers. “Some people who were at the Capitol are going to flip,” Casey said in his video.ĭeclaring the aftermath of the Capitol riot “a million times worse” for the far right than the crackdown that followed the fatal white supremacist rally in Charlottesville in 2017, Casey claimed, without offering evidence, that Fuentes’ bank accounts have been frozen by federal authorities. "in record numbers" in a post on conservative social media app Parler, according to The New York Times.On Thursday, Casey distanced himself from Fuentes and America First in a live-streamed video, slamming Fuentes’ decision to gather his followers in Orlando later this month for a conference right as other America First supporters face charges over the riot. Despite conceding that the election was not stolen, Tarrio urged members of the Proud Boys to go to a Stop the Steal rally in Washington, D.C. Tarrio was not present at the Capitol during the riots due to being arrested a short time earlier and ordered to stay away from the area. "I don't believe the election was stolen."
"No, I don't," Tarrio told the network when asked whether be believed the claims. During an interview broadcast by CNN Thursday night, Tarrio said that he did not agree that the election had been stolen, even though the riots were fueled by false claims of massive voter fraud. Capitol, where Trump supporters attempted to prevent Congress from certifying Biden's Electoral College win. Members of the Proud Boys are among those that have been charged for allegedly taking part in the deadly January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio does not believe that President Joe Biden was the beneficiary of a "stolen" election, despite having participated in "Stop the Steal" rallies after former President Donald Trump lost the election.
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