On December 19, 2020 (the day the Jan6 riot was announced), Proud Boy Nicholas DeCarlo was on the phone with Gavin MacInnes.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23318822-221125-decarlo-sentencing-memo#document/p31/a2176121

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@emptywheel Their ability to like Don Jr. is directly proportional to how much use he is to them. The less useful the idiot, the less he's liked.