Gavin McInnes, founder of far-right “Western chauvinist” group the Proud Boys, told a BBC documentary that “the corrupt leftwing media” was responsible for the January 6 riot at the US Capitol, it emerged this week. The documentary also showed him saying he wants to “make America hate again”.
“The left are the violent ones”, McInnes told documentary makers. “We had one riot on January 6.” Last year, Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, the Proud Boys’ former national chairman, was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his part in the Capitol attack. Attorney-General Merrick Garland said the group “played a central role”.
Jewish Australian journalist and documentary-maker John Safran met with McInnes in New York while researching his new book, Squat, which uses Kanye West’s antisemitism as an entry to a range of topics.
