>> After court documents show that Proud Boys organizer Enrique Tario,
had previously worked as an FBI informant. He took to telegram to offer an explanation
insisting that he is no longer a snitch, okay. And in fact, he did not help snitch
on other people. He was just clarifying his role in some stuff that he was involved in.
Now, of course that's not true. There are court transcripts that make it abundantly clear that
he was working with the feds to help prosecute marijuana growers and smugglers who are trying
to get people across the border. And so, I want to give you a little excerpt of what he had to say,
on telegram, to try to cover his past as an informant.
He says, the article sensationalizes the fact that in this case there was some heavy cooperating. No,
it actually makes it clear that you were cooperative. There's lots of heavy cooperating.
I have addressed this before in podcast and other interviews I have done.
My case had multiple defendants that were and are still friends minus one that recently passed away.
We worked with the prosecutor to tell her the details about all of our roles.
Now that's not true because his involvement in helping the feds prosecute and convict others
led to his sentence getting reduced by several months. But it doesn't matter what he had to say
guys because the response by his Proud Boy friends didn't really seem to buy it right.
They say, in one case, only a snitch would write a 10-paragraph post saying they're not a snitch.
This snitch worked with the feds, this phony trader should step down,
step down from what guys. >> Step down from what,
what you guys are all clowns, everyone of them he should step down from this fine establishment.
>> Yes this throne of diarrhea,
I'm sorry, but that's what it is. >> This sounds like a horrible episode
of Sons of Anarchy where it right it's step down from what it's, yeah. And then the fact
that they use the word snitch over and over again is just so 2002 like gangster movie I love this.
But once a rat always a rat, according to what people were tweeting that that this man
is definitely an informant. He's playing you all wrote somebody else. Yeah he wants to use this,
no matter how you wanna cut it, or how he tried to make it beautiful and pretty.
It is what it is. >> Yeah, we're the
actual white supremacists. We're not playing you at all. We're not telling you that you
should blame people of color and Jews for all your problems and Democrats. No, no, no,
we're not using you at all, Proud Boys. Anyway, Proud Boy, feel shame.
Shame boy now, Enrique story is fascinating to me. Because when I first saw it, the headline you
assume, great. So he was snitching on Proud Boys in the service of trying to expose White supremacy
and trying to help to root it out. That's what the feds were using him for.
No, no, no, they were using him to go after underground marijuana farms. Cool.
>> Bad Boys. >> Yeah,
exactly the and this is what we know of the Trump administration actually is that they ran ramped
up all of this. They ramped down anything that had to do with domestic terrorism or homegrown
terrorism and as far right extremism, and they ramped up things like going after weed farms.
Cool, cool, cool. And I think it speaks to so much more than than just the Proud Boys. And
it's funny that they're all whining now, but it speaks really to the failure of the FBI and the
failures and the ways in which they choose and pick informants often who have criminal records.
Often who are actually poor, who are not doing well in life. They
have offered them money to do things like entrap people for different kinds of crimes. And then
it also speaks to the crossover between if they knew he was in the Proud Boys and
was leading violence against Black Lives Matter demonstrators and against the election results.
But they knew that why did they still get through in the capital? Why did that happen? So,
it's such a story that tells tells a broader story of the moment that we're in.
>> Mm-hm. >> Yeah, so a few things, they actually
arrested him specifically Enrique Tario, several days prior to the capital riots taking place.
Because he was planning on going to the capital riots and they were keeping a
close eye on him. And they caught him with a bunch of weapons and stuff, so he got arrested
and wasn't able to attend the riots. There was obviously there was a breakdown in the system.
And if I want to put it in a generous way regarding preventing those riots
from taking place, we've talked about it quite a bit. But with Enrique Tario I mean
this case that he was caught up in and by the way he was doing
pharmaceutical fraud. He was stealing insulin and relabeling it for resale.
That was one of the things he was doing and that's what he was facing charges for
in 2014. But i agree with you I mean, the FBI and especially William Barr,
during the Trump administration not only focused on those grow houses. William Barr would try to
shut down dispensaries in states that have legalized marijuana for recreational use.