Gavin McInnes, founder of far-right “Western chauvinist” group the Proud Boys , told a BBC documentary that “the corrupt leftwing media” was responsible for the January 6 riot at the US Capitol, it emerged this week . The documentary also showed him saying he wants to “make America hate again”. “The left are the violent ones”, McInnes told documentary makers.
“We had one riot on January 6.” Last year, Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, the Proud Boys’ former national chairman, was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his part in the Capitol attack. Attorney-General Merrick Garland said the group “played a central role”.
Jewish Australian journalist and documentary-maker John Safran met with McInnes in New York while researching his new book, Squat , which uses Kanye West’s antisemitism as an entry to a range of topics. In October 2022, West posted an antisemitic message on X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter: I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE. McInnes “was not a fan of transgender people, feminists or Muslims,” Safran writes, “but he said he loved Jews.
So much so that he met up with Kanye and tried to talk him out of promoting Hitler.” The central premise of this at times barely believable (but, as Safran maintains, absolutely true) book is Safran – who has a history of performing outlandish, occasionally shocking stunts – breaking into one of West’s houses and squatti.