Prosecutor: Proud Boys Viewed Themselves As “trump’s Army”

The Associated Press, Denver Post
Mon, 04/24/2023 - 5:32pm

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — Ready for “all-out war,” leaders of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group viewed themselves as foot soldiers fighting for Donald Trump as the former president clung to power after the 2020 election, a prosecutor said Monday at the close of a historic trial over the U.S.

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