In an interview with CNN’s Sara Sidner, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio admitted that, although he encouraged members of his far-right group to attend the “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan 6th that led to a riot at the Capitol building, he doesn’t believe the election was stolen from Donald Trump — and then added that members of the Proud Boys who entered the building broke the law.
Tarrio, who has been accused of being an FBI informant and was not on the Capitol grounds the day of the insurrection because he was in jail, stated that he had no sympathy for the terrorized lawmakers, telling Sidner, “I’m not gonna cry about people who don’t give a crap about their constituents. I’m not going to sympathize with them.”
“They [lawmakers] are doing the job that the people put them there to do, and if they don’t like it, they can vote them out,” the CNN correspondent asked. “They are still Americans, they are still human beings who felt that their lives were in danger. How can you not feel any sympathy or any empathy towards them like that?” Continue reading.