Far-right figure blames ‘corrupt leftwing media’ for January 6 attack on US Capitol in new Trump documentary
The founder of the Proud Boys, the far-right group that played a major role in the January 6 riot at the US Capitol and was memorably instructed by Donald Trump to “stand back and stand by”, has told the makers of a Trump documentary: “We want to make America hate again.”
Gavin McInnes, the UK-born British Canadian citizen who co-founded Vice magazine and was influential in the New York hipster scene of the early 2000s before becoming a far-right militia figure, also claimed to the BBC that his group wasn’t responsible for what happened that day.
“It was you,” he told the makers of the documentary, which has aired on the BBC’s Panorama strand. “If anyone should apologise … it should be the corrupt leftwing media, and I’ll accept your apology now if you want to do it.”
The British-Canadian Hipster found of Vice became the leader of an anti-immigrant white nationalist group in the United States? Weird character arc. Anyone have any insight?
Yeah I’m… agog.
Am I wrong to think of hipsters as generally lefties?
Am I wrong to think of Vice as the people that do edgy progressive journalism and interesting documentaries?
Something is wrong with my preconceptions about these things.
… or maybe he just smoked too much crack and is suffering a psychosis.
Honestly, probably brain damage. Getting big head trauma can make people prone to rage and become less empathetic. Not everyone, of course. But the brain is complex, and some types of brain damage can really affect someone’s personality and mental capabilities.
Yea, same as you, I can’t connect those dots. Vice is absolutely left leaning from what I know and watch
He stuck a dildo up his ass and realized he might be gay?
The thought is still making its way from the rectum up, hasn’t reached the cerebellum yet