Proud Boys chief Enrique Tarrio mentioned on Saturday that he had been invited to the White Home, ostensibly whereas he was in Washington, D.C. to attend a collection of rallies protesting the outcomes of the 2020 election.
His posts, which had been made on the Trumpian social media web site Parler, set off alarm bells over the likelihood {that a} prime determine with a far-right, neo-fascist motion had been granted an viewers with prime authorities officers.
However the White Home says that he was not, in truth, invited in any respect and was merely on a public Christmas tour of the complicated.
“He was on a public WH Christmas tour,” Judd Deere, a White Home spokesman, instructed The Every day Beast. “He didn’t have a gathering with the President nor did the WH invite him.”
Tarrio’s Parler publish, accompanied by an image of the north aspect of the White Home, had the caption, “Final minute invite to an undisclosed location…” He then posted one other picture from the south aspect balcony—each of which might conceivably have been taken on a public tour.
There was no indication from his posts that he stepped foot contained in the White Home or had an viewers with any official.
The Proud Boys are a male-only group that has a penchant for making an attempt to fire up political violence, together with at rallies just like the one being hosted Saturday. Trump has infamously declined to denounce them up to now, telling members to easily “stand again and stand by” throughout his first debate with Joe Biden.
The president hinted earlier within the day that he can be visiting the rallygoers on Saturday. In November, he drove via an analogous rally on his technique to go {golfing}.
Tarrio didn’t reply to The Every day Beast’s request for remark.
With extra reporting by Will Sommer
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