Proud Boys leader a scapegoat for Trump, attorney tells January 6 trial

Neo-fascist group's leader Enrique Tarrio is charged along with four others with seditious conspiracy

A defense attorney argued on Tuesday at the close of a landmark trial over the January 6 insurrection that the US justice department is making the Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio a scapegoat for Donald Trump, whose supporters stormed the US Capitol.

Tarrio and four lieutenants are charged with seditious conspiracy for what prosecutors say was a plot to stop the transfer of presidential power from Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 election.