FBI Informant Panic Is Ruining Friendships All Over the Far Right

[JonLP24]

As federal authorities crack down on the far right after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the movement’s leaders have found new sources of suspicion: each other.

In the Trumpist “America First” movement and the far-right paramilitary group the Proud Boys, alliances are fracturing as extremists brand each other as potential informants. Now racist live-streamers are accusing their former comrades of attempting to turn over followers to law enforcement, while Proud Boys chapters are splintering from the national organization over similar fears.

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Declaring the aftermath of the Capitol riot “a million times worse” for the far right than the crackdown that followed the fatal white supremacist rally in Charlottesville in 2017, Casey claimed, without offering evidence, that Fuentes’ bank accounts have been frozen by federal authorities. He also accused Fuentes of planning to drive cross-country, rather than fly, to the Florida conference because he suspected he was on the federal no-fly list, then concealing that possibility from his followers.

Worst of all, Casey argued, Fuentes planned to gather all of his supporters in Orlando, where they could be easily recorded by federal investigators or informants. He went on to suggest America First’s members would see the conference for what he thinks it could be: an FBI trap.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-informant-panic-is-ruining-friendships-all-over-the-far-right-proud-boys-and-america-firsters

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. I heard the Donald cut a deal with the FBI, telling on Proud Boys to avoid prosecution.

[jaxexpat]

2. I'm sure it's true. Many have seen it on the interwebs.

Trump needs the money. Can't sell his name. It's running at negative value in most markets. For reasons he can't understand, his plan to live off the generosity of his children is not panning out either. His properties (what real interest he actually controls) are depreciating faster than Melania's credit score and he's got planes pulling messages across the sky offering advice about his options, none of which he can monetize. He has no marketable skill and a reputation for poor work habits, leaving him unemployable. His business plan is definitely at the juncture where his easiest profit potential lies in betrayal of his supporters. I mean, after all "freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose", right?

[TexasLefty29]

9. Where did you hear this? Nt

[msfiddlestix]

15. Wait, he's been raking in millions upon millions on his various legal campaigns

how could he be broke? He's still raking it in like gang busters I thought.

[yardwork]

21. I've heard all this and more. /nt

[msfiddlestix]

13. wait. You heard Donald cut a deal with the FBI? Where did you Hear this?

Pray tell!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

14. Many people are saying. I'm not, but many fine people are saying that. Very fine people.

[central scrutinizer]

17. Yes, it's been said by many in the know

That names were named, deals were struck, pleas were bargained, the passive voice was abused.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

18. Money may have changed hands. Mistakes were made! Freedom was jeopardized!

[KewlKat]

22. Yes, many fine people on both sides. Many people are saying this. More than anytime in our history

[Ford_Prefect]

3. We are only seeing the Tip of the Iceberg, so far...

[malaise]

4. Good

Rec

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. Excellent. Get them all turning against each other.

And once that starts, how long before they start suspecting that maybe, just maybe, Dear Leader has started selling them out and disposing of the non-performing assets?

[2naSalit]

7. +1

It's a good tactic, hope it does a lot of damage.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

6. Hopefully, many patriotic young folks will join the FBI because

of the terrorist assault on the Capitol, and will be dedicated to rooting out these domestic terrorists, until there are few or none left to root out.

[jaxexpat]

19. About the "none left" stuff, I don't think it works like that

So long as there are laws, there will be people to break them. So long as fear is motivation to sit and worry, terrorists will be around to play on it.

[Turin_C3PO]

24. It'll scare quite a few away from

engaging in terrorism or sedition if the FBI and DOJ really put the hammer down on these assholes. Most of these idiots aren’t as determined as we might think. Most have jobs, families maybe. They don’t want to go against the government once it gets real. There will still be some who commit terrorism but the number will be reduced.

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. There is no honor among thieves or Proud Boys. nt

[marmar]

10. If you can't trust a white nationalist terrorist who can you trust?

[Dorian Gray]

12. heh

they deserve every second of backstabbing and jail time

[Progressive Jones]

11. There cannot be enough mental and physical damage heaped upon the TrumpRiotMonkeys. nt

[oasis]

16. All right wing fanatics suffer from out of control paranoia. It's firmly

embedded into their DNA.

[smirkymonkey]

20. Gee, that's too bad. Sorry to hear it.

[Johnny2X2X]

23. Easy to access means easy to infilitrate

The same things that made attracting new members online for them have made infiltration easy. It's all online, it's all anonymous, it's easy. And above being infiltrated by the authorities or left leaning groups looking to report them, there's a lot of false leaders in their ranks, people egging them on that are not really all in and are just doing it for kicks. One major Q leader whose online persona was named "The Commander" and pretending to be ex military in the know, turned out to be a 13 year old kid just looking for attention.

The FBI has been warning about these groups for years, the last administration did little to prevent this extremism, that will change now. Bottom line is that these groups need to stop planning terrorist attacks and stop promoting violence, if they don't they're going to be shutdown and/or arrested.