In October 2020, Trump refused to denounce the far-right Proud Boys organization, instead telling its members to “stand back and stand by.” The Proud Boys turned out for the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, where they helped to lead those rioters fired up by Trump’s speech at The Ellipse, where he told them: “You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing…. And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”

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“You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing …

And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”