It was not very easy to find reactions to the Justice Department going 4 for 5 on seditious conspiracy charges against the leadership of the Proud Boys (5 for 5 on other conspiracy counts) on Thursday. Some sites just didn’t want to cover it – and understandably so, because it wasn’t the “winning” their audience demands. But we found enough to fill this out, and man are they butthurt:
“Tarrio said a long time ago he wasn’t even there… unlike FBI informant ray epps screaming for everyone to ‘go into the capitol’ when will he be convicted?! democrat radicals used to call Tarrio a white supremacist until they found out he is a Black Hispanic, morons that they are! I have about had it with joe biden justice and their kangaroo courts” – Top comment on the OAN story.
“And Ray Epps walks free” – Top comment on the Breitbart article.
“Hard to do a legal defense when the Judge prevents you from calling witnesses eh? Or revealing to the jury that the person who emailed the ‘plot’ around to people in the organization in the first place was working for the FBI?” – Top comment on the Daily Caller’s report.
Clear now the Biden Admin is going to charge Trump with seditious conspiracy
This is the end goal of the Garland grand jury and the Proud Boys convictions
GOP primary challengers are telling donors they are betting on it taking him out of the race
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) May 5, 2023
“Seditious Conspiracy is what Nancy, Shumer, McConnell, and others did to keep Republicans from investigating the blatant election fraud of the 2020 election” – Top comment on the Gateway Pundit’s story, hilariously titled “Good God: Proud Boys Members Guilty of Seditious Conspiracy by DC Kangaroo Court – Face 20 Years in Prison – After FBI Planted Evidence in Their Chatroom.”
“There was no plot to keep Trump in power. Proud Boys are not a NEO Fascist group. The fascists are on the left and always have been. There never was a Trump Army. This is such a BS case. The prosecutor should be facing the death penalty” – The top comment on the Newsmax article.
I’ll really miss Tucker tonight. He would shred this Proud Boys trial and verdicts like no one else can.
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) May 4, 2023
The first 300 or so top comments on the the Fox News article are from lib trolls. No joke. There’s not a single sincere MAGA comment to be found after 10 minutes of scrolling. RedState.com, PJ Media, TownHall, BizPacReview, Twitchy, and Daily Wire didn’t cover the verdict at all.
It’s not clear if Trump was talking about himself or the Proud Boys. Probably himself if we had to guess, but might as well throw this in there on the off chance that he’s actually pretending to care about his loyal fascists who now face decades in federal prison because of his lies.