‘Crush Them for Good’: New Messages Suggest Oath Keepers, Proud Boys Made ‘Alliance’ Ahead of Riots
Oath Keeper Kelly Meggs wasn’t planning to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6 alone.
On top of the more than two months of preparation and coordination with fellow members of the far-right group, the 52-year-old boasted that he was keeping busy forming alliances with the Proud Boys and other paramilitary groups ahead of the insurrection, new messages released by federal prosecutors suggest. In the private Facebook messages, Meggs even claimed he’d “orchestrated a plan with the Proud Boys” to confront any violent members of Antifa.
“This week I organized an alliance between Oath Keepers, Florida 3%ers, and Proud Boys,” the self-described leader of the Florida chapter of the Oath Keepers, wrote in a Dec. 19 Facebook message to an associate. “We have decided to work together and shut this shit down.”
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