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Nevada GOP consultant tried to recruit the far-rightProud Boys for an event, $4 reported. - Woodrow Johnston was hired to investigate election fraud before being tasked with organizing a rally.
- Johnston said he needed "to get the Proud Boys out" to a post-election rally for Trump at a Las Vegas election department.
A Nevada GOP consultant tasked with organizing a post-election rally in support of former President Donald Trump last year tried to recruit the far-right Proud Boys to attend the event, $4
Woodrow Johnston, the vice president of McShane LLC who had been hired by the Republican Party to investigate election fraud, tried to recruit the Proud Boys for a November rally held at the Clark County Election Department in North Las Vegas, The Post reported.
In doing so, he contacted Sarah Ashton-Cirillo - a liberal activist who was working closely with people on the far-right under a fake identity - saying that they would "need to get the Proud Boys out" to Nevada, according to The Post.
The Proud Boys is a far-right group with members tied to violent political incidents in recent years. $4 describing the events around the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol said members of the group had been planning for the siege months in advance and prepared tactical resources for the attack.
$4 the Canadian federal government named the Proud Boys a terrorist organization in the weeks after January 6. A spokesperson for Public Safety Minister Bill Blair denounced "white supremacists, anti-Semitics, Islamophobic and misogynist groups."
The FBI told Insider's Haven Orrechio-Egresitz that it cannot designate domestic terrorist groups, and membership in groups that have domestic extremist ideology is not illegal on its own.