WASHINGTON — Former Proud Boys official Jeremy Bertino -- who last year pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy related to Jan. 6 -- took the witness stand in Washington on Tuesday in the seditious conspiracy trial of the far-right group's principal leadership.
Bertino said interest and membership requests for the Proud Boys surged after then-President Donald Trump addressed the group by name during a 2020 presidential debate.
His baseless belief that the 2020 election was stolen continued to grow in the months and weeks leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, a view that he shared with other members of the Proud Boys, he said. "Mr. Tarrio is looking forward to the start of the trial," his defense attorney, Nayib Hassan, previously said in a statement to ABC News."We look forward to making our presentation of the evidence and acquitting Mr. Tarrio of the government's allegations.""Everything seemed like a conspiracy at that point," he said.
The Proud Boys call themselves"Western chauvinists," believing that they are responsible for"creating the modern world."
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