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How the Proud Boys are prepping for a second Trump term

Jul 28, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -24% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : "Proud Boys, stand back and stand by," Trump declared.
65% : After Trump was elected he became a conservative - or got "redpilled", as he put it - and joined the Proud Boys.
60% : Once Trump was in the White House, he offered the Proud Boys as muscle to conservative pundits such as Ann Coulter and Roger Stone, which gave the group greater visibility.
56% : If he prevails in November, Trump makes clear, so will the Capitol rioters.
56% : The "rally boys" were more explicitly political; they arranged flag-waving counter-demonstrations at Pride parades and May Day celebrations, and organised to fight leftists, who took to the streets from early 2017 to challenge Trump.
46% : If Trump gets into a position to free the imprisoned Proud Boys, he may inaugurate a new age of impunity.
45% : What will the Proud Boys do if Trump is re-elected?
43% : The next day, Trump back-pedalled: "I don't know who the Proud Boys are," he claimed and told them to "stand down".
42% : Trump, currently the favourite to win the presidential election in November, said last month he will release at least "a large portion" of the January 6th prisoners if he is elected in November.
40% : On the campaign trail, Trump has embraced the cause of the convicted rioters and made political theatre out of their imprisonment.
35% : Their swelling numbers at rallies after the election announced their arrival as Trump's most visible "Stop the Steal" intimidators.
33% : Trump also scored a "big win", as he put it, when the court ruled that presidents enjoy immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts while in office, a decision that will delay and possibly scuttle his own January 6th prosecution.
29% : When Trump claimed that all the violence came from left-wingers, Wallace pressed him again.
26% : He believes Trump will liberate him and the other prisoners if returned to the White House: "I do expect him to right all the injustices and inequalities of the past four years."
24% : Like Trump, he was a "troll master of the world", said Alonso.
21% : At the microphone Trump calls them "hostages" as he has attacked Biden and the American justice system.
20% : "If it wasn't for Trump they wouldn't give two craps about us.
19% : The attempted assassination of Trump on July 13th has injected violence into an already fraught campaign.
19% : Not only has Trump enjoyed impunity so far but none of the lawyers, advisers or organisers of fake electors who were involved has yet been tried or convicted.
8% : On September 29th, during a debate with Joe Biden, the moderator, Chris Wallace, challenged Trump "to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down".

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