After djt told Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by” during September 2020 debate, it became a group slogan. After trump tweeted to "be there, it will be wild," Enrique Tarios took it to be a call for action. He was disappointed in the groups prior protests, in November and December of 2020. where members were injured during street clashes.
He started a sub-group: Ministry of Self-Defense; he handpicked members, among group leaders whom he felt he could trust to follow orders. This "fighting force" grew to several hundred members. Tarios was not at the J6 riot; in jail after burning a BLM flag in the December protest.
Early in the morning, Ethan Nordean, took control of hundreds of Proud Boys, marching them to the Capitol building. They did not attend Trump's rally; they were the first to breach the building. Trump's defense, I assume; that he was in no way responsible for what came next.
Of course he did nothing to try to stop it. Some claim he requested the National Guard; if true, he must have expected groups like the Proud Boys to become violent and aggressive. Fight like hell? They did so. And he thanked them and said "we love you," "you are special."
The other Proud Boys in this trial: Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola.
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