![]() You may remember him because he had kind of wild and crazy hair and a shaggy beard. JOHNSON: Well, there was one man, Dominic Pezzola. KHALID: Carrie, I want to be clear here, though, because my understanding is not all of the men charged were convicted. But in the end, the jury came up with verdicts on almost every charge. And they introduced something like 500,000 chat messages, video, podcasts, all kind of evidence and dozens of witnesses that this jury had to sift through and sit through over more than four months of trial. In reality, DOJ says, that was supposed to be a fighting force on the ground for Donald Trump that day at the Capitol. And right after that, the government says, Enrique Tarrio started an encrypted chat group called Ministry of Self Defense. Then, we saw that tweet from Donald Trump in December 2020, encouraging people to come to the rally on January 6 - be there, will be wild. The prosecutors and the defense both played that tape of Trump during the presidential debate saying that the Proud Boys should stand back and stand by. JOHNSON: You know, former President Donald Trump was looming over this trial like a shadow. What is it that these men did specifically that resulted in this conviction? KHALID: So, Carrie, I know that there have been a number of prosecutions around what happened on January 6. government, to try to desperately keep former President Donald Trump in power, and to help lead breaches at the U.S. Basically, the seditious conspiracy theory is that these men were trying to oppose by force the authority of the U.S. But now the Justice Department has managed to win convictions against the former Proud Boys chairman, Enrique Tarrio, and three other members of that group's (ph) - Joe Biggs, who had a lot of ties to the conspiracy site Infowars, Zach Rehl, who once led the Philadelphia chapter of the Proud Boys, and Ethan Nordean, who played a big role on the ground at the Capitol on January 6. Seditious conspiracy - it is not a common charge. So let's begin with kind of a basic question here, but I think it's very important. And, Carrie, you have been covering this story from the start. Four members of the self-styled militia group called the Proud Boys, including the group's former chairman, Enrique Tarrio, have been found guilty of seditious conspiracy. KHALID: And we are going to begin today's show with news of a big verdict in connection to the January 6 riot at the U.S. LIASSON: And I'm Mara Liasson, national political correspondent. JOHNSON: I'm Carrie Johnson, national justice correspondent. (SOUNDBITE OF THE BIG TOP ORCHESTRA'S "TEETER BOARD: FOLIES BERGERE (MARCH AND TWO-STEP)") Eastern Time on Friday, May 5 of 2023.ĬAITLIN: Things may have changed by the time you hear it. I've just taken my last final at the University of New Mexico School of Law, and I'm about to graduate and get married to the love of my life all in the same week. CAITLIN: Hi, this is Caitlin (ph) in Albuquerque, N.M.
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