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FBI Informants to Testify for Defense in Proud Boys Seditious Conspiracy Trial

The high-profile trial levying charges of seditious conspiracy for five members of the Proud Boys is underway in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, overseen by Federal Judge Timothy Kelly. The defendants are Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, Joseph Biggs, Zach Rehl, Ethan Nordean, and Dominic Pezzola.

Although the jury selection process started weeks ago, on Friday counsel for four of the five defendants presented their opening statements, following the prosecution’s opening statements made on Thursday. Dan Hull, attorney for defendant Joseph Biggs, reserved their opening statement to be made later.

The opening statements gave a preview of defense witnesses that will be called to testify. Among them are FBI informants that gained access to the group, and chats, ahead of January 6, 2021.

VICE reports:

For example, attorney Nick Smith, who’s representing [Ethan] Nordean, showed jurors a screenshot of messages from one of the informants. “PBs did not do it or inspire,” the informant wrote. “Crowds did, herd mentality. Not organized.”

In September, the New York Times ran this headline: Among Those Who Marched Into the Capitol on Jan. 6: An F.B.I. Informant

A member of the far-right Proud Boys texted his F.B.I. handler during the assault, but maintained the group had no plan in advance to enter the Capitol and disrupt the election certification.

In November, it was reported that the FBI had up to eight informants among the group. The government’s court filing and revelation caused a series of motions from the defense, including by Smith, who argued that the information was “material to the defense”; That led to a request for additional time to review the records and interview “relevant witnesses.”

Many questions remain about the informant witnesses and their testimony, including how many will testify and if they will invoke the Fifth Amendment during their questioning.

Government informants are not the only interesting witnesses to testify for the defense– a member of a rock band may be called as well. While the individual was not named in Smith’s opening statement, previous filings show this person to be Michale Graves, the former singer of The Misfits, a punk rock band.

The defense plans to call witnesses to demonstrate their arguments that a seditious conspiracy was not what was planned for the afternoon of January 6, 2021, but that alternatively, the real-time informants for the goverment reported,

“PB [Proud Boys] did not do it nor inspire. crowd did it. herd mentality. not organized.”

And, that at least one of the defendants had plans to return to an Airbnb to enjoy a rock performance.

The trial is anticipated to last weeks and will resume on Tuesday.

READ 4 COMMENTS
  • D says:

    sure they will now get off as they were all part of the government set up to get the Trump supporters going Just like the DC Police that waved supports in and opened gates and doors
    .And the several bus loads of ppl that came in escorted by police and changed from reg clothes to Trump supporter clothes behind the capital . Big Big Set Up

  • Cavalryman says:

    If the US house can just release ALL, the video evidence now before these people are wrongly convicted by a lying federal government. That may put a glimmer of hope that some true justice is still possible.

  • John says:

    The satanic minions in their own Antichrist demonic communist driven corrupted agency will have them silenced but not before the good people in this country stand up and protect people like this demons must be destroyed on Earth as well as in the realm of Heaven

  • Patty says:

    The agents should be charged with sedition along with Ray Epps, they helped instigate the whole thing, according to piglosi’s instructions! SHE should be investigated!

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