Far-right figure blames ‘corrupt leftwing media’ for January 6 attack on US Capitol in new Trump documentary

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.”

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 hours ago

      If this post is any indication, he definitely has succeeded in making America hate him again. If that’s what he wanted.

  • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    71·
    3 hours ago

    I love that he called his little gang ‘The Proud Boys’. It makes think of him and his little buddies all sitting around playing video games, proudly shitting in their pants, with big smiles on their happy faces.

  • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    31·
    3 hours ago

    I love that he called his little gang ‘The Proud Boys’. It makes think of him and his little buddies all sitting around playing video games, proudly shitting in their pants, with big smiles on their happy faces.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
    6·
    4 hours ago

    I hear he’s sleeping with other proud boy’s’ partners. They should all know that.

    Let him die a traditional neonazi death

  • Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    29·
    7 hours ago

    Hey, everyone. You can’t tolerate intolerance. The intolerant ones will harass the tolerant ones.

    You have to fire them into space so they can die alone and unloved.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 hours ago

      You have to fire them into space so they can die alone and unloved.

      This is why Elon has never gone up on one of his rockets. He doesn’t want to be shoved out the airlock.

      (No it isn’t. He’s just a coward.)

    • Commiunism
      7·
      5 hours ago

      Nah, you’re supposed to take them seriously and give them various platforms to speak on and beat them with FACTS and LOGIC because that’s what’s needed for a marketplace of ideas and functioning democracy.

      In other unrelated news, fascism is now rising tremendously in the world.

      • Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        6·
        5 hours ago

        Nah, you’re supposed to take them seriously

        I do take them seriously, that’s why I call for them to be shot into space.

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
    5·
    7 hours ago

    you mean you want to get rich off these people and you probably don’t care left or right you just find people who are easiest to manipulate, are likely in some sort of identity crisis and will act like fanatics for you

    • frickineh@lemmy.world
      36·
      13 hours ago

      Didn’t he also eat cereal with pee instead of milk and take a picture of himself stepping on his own nutsack? I feel like this dude is just forcing his gross fetishes on people left and right.

      • glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        12 hours ago

        Which I’d respect if he was honest about it. I don’t think he’s capable of being honest with himself, much less anyone else.

      • errer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        11 hours ago

        Honest question: is it physically possibly to step on one’s own nutsack? Do I have to dislocate my pelvis or something?

        • SilverCode@lemm.ee
          2·
          7 hours ago

          I find if you use a pair of scissors to remove the nutsack first, then stepping in it becomes a lot easier.

    • Machinist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      70·
      14 hours ago

      Thank you for bringing this up. Anytime this fuckwit is allowed back in the public eye, this should be right at the top to help invalidate the shit he spews.

  • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
    170·
    15 hours ago

    The left are the violent ones. They burnt down this country for 2 straight years.

    me looking at all the intact cities, towns, and unincorporated townships that haven’t been burnt to the ground for 2 years straight

    These assholes literally live on Earth 2, don’t they?

    • benyameen@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      I’ve taken to believing conservatives live in a shadow realm, separate from reality. There, they are scared by their own delusions and exist detached from the real world.

    • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      22·
      12 hours ago

      They have no qualms about lying to further their agenda. Many of the people leading these movements aren’t unintelligent, but rather immoral.

  • xtr0n@sh.itjust.works
    66·
    14 hours ago

    UK born British-Canadian citizen? So another far right anti-immigrant immigrant, coming to the US to stir up shit? When will we deport this clown and Phony Stark?

    • solomon42069@lemmy.world
      21·
      11 hours ago

      That’s one area I’m proud of Australia for. We frequently deny travel for problematic people - most recently Candace Owens was denied entry. Most likely for saying that Australia should be invaded, but she’s said a lot of horrible stuff so who can tell!

      • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc
        2·
        6 hours ago

        We do have our share of anti-immigrant immigrants though.

        Jack van Tongeren comes to mind. A Dutch migrant that hated asians. He set fire to a bunch of Asian restaurants. There was something of a political movement IIRC, they wanted to send asian migrants back to where they came from (?!) and relocate Australia’s Capital City to Alice Springs because it was geographically central.

        • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 hours ago

          I don’t know much about Australia, but isn’t the geographically central part the least pleasant livable part?

          • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc
            2·
            3 hours ago

            Yes!

            I mean I don’t want to be mean about where someone lives. About 33k people live in Alice Springs and I’m sure it’s a great place to be.

            That said, it really is in the middle of the desert. It’s harsh beauty is breathtaking even on google maps satellite view:

            There’s no sensible reason to move Australia’s Political capital in any case.

            I doubt it’s even feasible to support a large population in that area.

            • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 hours ago

              Yeah, perhaps I should have said livable instead of pleasant. I’ll change it. But Phoenix and Las Vegas have a lot of problems because they’re giant cities built in places that can’t really support populations that size using water in the way they do.

  • nick@midwest.social
    26·
    12 hours ago

    Oh, I already hate.

    I hate these fucking cocksuckers (proud boys) and hope they all burn.