The Proud Boys started as a right-wing fight club. Now many of its members have been charged in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. CNN’s Elle Reeve, who has covered the Proud Boys from their earliest days, discusses the rise of this paramilitary group with Reality Check’s John Avlon – and why one former Proud Boy says he left the group he believed had become “too much like a nationwide criminal gang.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Proud Boys started as a right-wing fight club. Now many of its members have been charged in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. CNN’s Elle Reeve, who has covered the Proud Boys from their earliest days, discusses the rise of this paramilitary group with Reality Check’s John Avlon – and why one former Proud Boy says he left the group he believed had become “too much like a nationwide criminal gang.”The Proud Boys started as a right-wing fight club. Now many of its members have been charged in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. CNN’s Elle Reeve, who has covered the Proud Boys from their earliest days, discusses the rise of this paramilitary group with Reality Check’s John Avlon – and why one former Proud Boy says he left the group he believed had become “too much like a nationwide criminal gang.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haitimotivate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haitimotivate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haitimotivate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haitimotivate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haitimotivate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haitimotivate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haitimotivate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haitimotivate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}