“I never quite understood the relentless rallying,” said McInnes. McInnes has also criticized the direction of the Proud Boys under Tarrio, who helped organize high-profile, large-scale rallies through 2020 that drew considerable media attention and public scrutiny to the group. There’s still some people who don’t like me, but welcome to reality,” said Tarrio. Tarrio insisted he wasn’t planning on running for reelection as chairman that September, and that he’d put a vote of no-confidence in himself to the membership. “If you’ve worked with the feds, you shouldn’t lead a club,” McInnes told him. “I don’t think he should have been chairman after working with the FBI.”
I felt betrayed that he’d worked with the FBI and not told us,” said McInnes. When contacted by VICE News, McInnes responded by asking when this reporter would consider “relinquishing your obsession on the club” and didn't address questions about his current ties to the Proud Boys.Ī week later, he had Tarrio on the show to clear the air. Membership estimates range between thousands and tens of thousands. They also have chapters in the United Kingdom and Australia. apart from Delaware, Wyoming, and Vermont. He founded the Proud Boys in 2016.) Today, the Proud Boys claim to have 157 chapters in all states in the U.S. He left the company in 2008 and has had no involvement since then. (Disclosure: Gavin McInnes was a co-founder of VICE in the mid-1990s. 6 anniversary was just the latest example of McInnes appearing to publicly associate himself again with the Proud Boys, raising fresh questions about his role and continuing influence on a group that’s become a household name since dozens of its members have been hit with serious federal charges in connection with the Capitol riot.
“Proud Boys are getting it worse than everyone because they’re Proud Boys, not because of what they did,” McInnes said. In the hourlong episode, McInnes, 51, claimed that the Proud Boys were being unfairly punished. The episode, titled “The Meandering,” featured interviews with Nick Ochs, one of the approximately 50 Proud Boys facing charges in connection with the attack on the Capitol, and two attorneys representing Proud Boys in their Jan.
“Today we’re wearing Proud Boy regalia, as an homage to our brothers behind bars,” McInnes said.
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