Proud Boys Member Was in Contact With the White House in the Days Before 1/6

Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=58548"><span class="small">Katie Benner, Alan Feuer and Adam Goldman, The New York Times</span></a>

Saturday, 06 March 2021 09:27

Excerpt: "A member of the far-right nationalist Proud Boys was in communication with a person associated with the White House in the days just before the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation."

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Proud Boys Member Was in Contact With the White House in the Days Before 1/6

By Katie Benner, Alan Feuer and Adam Goldman, The New York Times

06 March 21

A leader of the far-right group separately said he had been in touch with Roger Stone, but an official said it was not the same contact investigators found through electronic communications records.

member of the far-right nationalist Proud Boys was in communication with a person associated with the White House in the days just before the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation.

Location, cellular and call record data revealed a call tying a Proud Boys member to the Trump White House, the official said. The F.B.I. has not determined what they discussed, and the official would not reveal the names of either party.

The connection revealed by the communications data comes as the F.B.I. intensifies its investigation of contacts among far-right extremists, Trump White House associates and conservative members of Congress in the days before the attack.

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