Proud Boys Leader Tarrio Was ‘Prolific’ Law Enforcement Cooperator After 2012 Arrest | Talking Points Memo

The leader of the Proud Boys was a “prolific” cooperator with law enforcement following a past brush with federal charges, a report revealed Wednesday. 


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“I’m not going to denounce anything,” Tarrio said."

Lolz…just wait.

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Uuuuuh… The rat better stay out of prison, he will have a hard time there,

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doh

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Dude’s lifes expectancy can probably now be measured with an egg timer.

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Didn’t Who? denounce rats?

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Capture

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Yes, all the other PBoys will totally believe this, Enrique.

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This is the story I’m partial to regarding neo Nazis.

No paywall here:

Added: Near the bottom of the Insider link is a video of what all the symbols and patches mean worn by the insurrectionists in DC. After that video, there’s a 15 minute video on the founding of the Proud Boys. Tarrio is interviewed in the tape and it also reminds us who started the Proud Boys. A piece of shit named Gavin McInnes. Both videos were interesting.

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“I don’t know any of this,” he told Reuters. “I don’t recall any of this.”

I can’t think of a more odd or telling response. How can you possibly not recall court proceedings or going to jail or working with the Feds? They’re not asking him how many hot wings he ate last night or how many beers he drank. You can’t not recall or not know “any of this.” He’s about to go through some thangs.

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Oh, so the leader of the Proud Boys has a history of snitching on people when his penal interests are imperiled? Good to know.

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I don’t think his lawyer is doing him any favors in reporting all the cases he was involved in to the media

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Especially if you’re a Proud Boy. Time to Google “countries with no extradition treaty.”

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You know…quite a few people were questioning why LEO picked this guy up BEFORE the riot and After his release on January 5, 2021, he was banned from entering Washington, DC, except for trial or meeting with his lawyers.

That got him conveniently out of the fray.

This story makes the arrest all the more suspicious.

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Best thing for Tarrio is to make a deal by ratting on all his Proud Boy buddies and then go on the Federal Witness Protection Program.

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Proud boy is not exactly a
Good Fellow

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A well-known syndrome: Convenient Amnesia. I gather there are support groups for it - the G.O.P., for example.

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Sounds like **COINTELPRO just updated to a new era.

From Wikipedia:

In 1971 in San Diego, the FBI financed, armed, and controlled an extreme right-wing group of former members of the Minutemen anti-communist para-military organization, transforming it into a group called the Secret Army Organization that targeted groups, activists, and leaders involved in the Anti-War Movement, using both intimidation and violent acts.[9

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Sad to be so young and to have fucked your life up so bad you have NOTHING to look forward to.

So happy I was never an idiot.

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Reuters dug up the court transcript, which is a public record. All the lawyer said to them now is that his descriptions of his client’s cooperation back in the day would have been based on the information given to him by prosecutors and law enforcement.

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