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applegrove

(118,659 posts)
Fri Apr 8, 2022, 05:37 PM Apr 2022

Proud Boys Leader Admits Plan to Storm Capitol

Proud Boys Leader Admits Plan to Storm Capitol

April 8, 2022 at 3:35 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 54 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/04/08/proud-boys-leader-admits-plan-to-storm-capitol/

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In a newly filed statement of offense, prosecutors said that Proud Boys leader Charles Donohoe — who took a plea deal earlier today — “understood that the purpose of the rally in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, was to stop the certification of the Electoral College vote,” the Washington Post reports.

Key passage: “Donohoe was aware that members of MOSD leadership were discussing the possibility of storming the Capitol. Donohoe believed that storming the Capitol would achieve the group’s goal of stopping the government from carrying out the transfer of presidential power. Donohoe understood that storming the Capitol would be illegal.”

Donohoe has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.

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Proud Boys Leader Admits Plan to Storm Capitol (Original Post) applegrove Apr 2022 OP
What is MOSD? CurtEastPoint Apr 2022 #1
Ministry of self defense Ohio Joe Apr 2022 #2
Ministry of Self Defense Claire Oh Nette Apr 2022 #3
Planned, funded, coordinated. Not the spontaneous "protest" that the Orange Anus asserts. nt Evolve Dammit Apr 2022 #4
K&R UTUSN Apr 2022 #5

Claire Oh Nette

(2,636 posts)
3. Ministry of Self Defense
Fri Apr 8, 2022, 05:49 PM
Apr 2022

Pretty Conspiracy-ish and seditious if ya ask me...

“Beginning in late December 2020, TARRIO and a handful of other members of the Proud Boys created a new chapter for the Proud Boys that would consist of members from across the country. The new chapter was referred to as the Ministry of Self Defense or MOSD (“MOSD”). TARRIO described the MOSD as a ‘national rally planning’ chapter that would include only ‘hand selected members.'”

The MOSD, prosecutors say, “began preparations for Jan. 6, 2021” almost immediately after it was formed.


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