. what do you want to call them? give me a name. proud boys. proud boys, stand back and stand by. after he made this comment, enrico tarrio said standing by, sir. during our investigation, we learned that this comment during the presidential debate led to an increase in membership in the proud boys. would you say proud boys numbers increased after the stand back stand by comment? exponentially. i d say tripled probably. with the potential for a lot more eventually. did you ever sell any stand back and stand by merchandise? a vendor on my page beat me to it, but i wish i would have made a stand back stand by shirt. call and answer. call and effect. trump speaks, there are consequences. and this will be our third straight go-round, third
standard. harry, let me go back to you on this. what we do know is these are some of the texts we saw going from oath keepers who were connected to other far right groups, the three percenters and others. so kelly megs who was the leader of the florida chapter of the oath keepers which is one of the other main groups started reaching out to allies and other far right organizations. they sought to create what prosecutors called an alliance. he told a member of the three percenters he made contact with the proud boys and called them a force multiplier. there s video here that shows enrique tarrio, a documentary filmmaker took this video. his is the garage meeting on january 5th. the video included a portion in which you can hear someone saying it s inevitable. it s going to happen. we just have to do it strong and fast. this video includes stewart rhodes, enrico tarrio, a lawyer for the oath keepers, the leader of latinos for trump, which also enrique tarrio used to be a
lives matter signs. that s why he was arrested, why he wasn t actually free to be in d.c. on january 6th. but as you said, he s pushed forward as the frontman. he s probably going to do time and get convicted because the case against him is no different than the case against elmer stewart rhodes. these are people like him that are going to go to jail and for what? for donald trump. right, and they see donald trump as the main reason for being. they are out there fighting for gop grievances. part of what makes this trial so interesting is it s almost a mob-like trial. you have proud boys who have already pleaded guilty ready to testify against their own. and you have enrico tarrio s connections to people like roger stone and donald trump s inner circle. so if the prosecution wants to fry some big fish here, they could use that testimony to try to get more information about extremist connections to people like roger stone and trump s inner circle. it s going to be very interesting to s
federal government began making its case today against members of the right wing extremist group the proud boys for their role in the january 6th attack on the capitol. former leader enrico tarrio is charged with seditious conspiracy and obstruction of a official proceeding. with four other defendants, ethan nordean, joseph biggs, and dominic pet sola. they played this infamous moment from the 2020 presidential debate. what do you want to call them? give me a name. white supremacists. who do you want me to condemn? proud boys. proud boys, stand back and stand by. u.s. taerg jason mccullough told the jury these men did not stand back, they did not stand by. instead, they mobilized. the second january 6th trial that could garner a conviction on seditious conspiracy charges. in november, oath keepers leader elmer stewart rhodes and his