His personal Proud Boy is a liar. Imagine that.
You may have read about a physical political attack on a Marco Rubio canvasser a few days back. It sounds pretty bad. The guy was handing out leaflets when he was allegedly attacked by violent Democrats who beat him mercilessly because he was a Republican. Then we found out that he was a Proud Boy who was fighting at Charlottesville. Now we find out that the whole thing is a sham.
Cellphone videos of the incident have now emerged (seemingly from the assailants’ defense attorneys) which undermine the political attack storyline and actually show one of the assailants (just before the attack) telling Christopher Monzon to go about his business and keep canvassing.
It appears that the brawl was triggered by one of the assailants thinking Monzon was looking too closely at his girlfriend. The big picture looks to be one of a group of young violent idiots thumping their chests and things spinning out of control.
No one should think the assailants here are somehow the good guys. Both have lengthy criminal records, including for assault and violent conduct. (So does Monzon for that matter, though his criminal record seems like connected to his political activism – assault, incitement to riot, etc.)
It wasn’t about politics at all. But that didn’t stop Rubio and the entire right wing turning this guy into a martyr and sadly, I’m not sure that the truth of this will penetrate at all. I wouldn’t be surprised to see this guy join Kyle Rittenhouse with his own Youtube channel and a full-blown right wing media career.
Here are some Proud Boys, pretending they care about political violence to troll the libs:
About three-dozen people gathered outside John F. Kennedy Library in Hialeah Saturday to rally in support of Christopher Monzon, the GOP canvasser brutally beaten earlier this week about a mile away — an attack that Monzon’s family and Sen. Marco Rubio said was politically motivated.
The protest on Saturday morning, held as voters filed into an early voting site steps away, was organized by people with past or present links to the Proud Boys, a national white supremacist organization. They handed out door hangers with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ political platform and prepared to canvass nearby homes, a symbolic gesture to finish knocking on the doors Monzon did not get to before he was assaulted.
Protesters waved American flags and Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and Ron DeSantis gear, and held large, blown-up photos of Monzon lying injured in a hospital bed. Several wore T-shirts and hats marked with Proud Boy insignia. Some covered their faces with Proud Boy bandannas. They laid the blame for the attack squarely on Democrats. “Chris cannot walk today because of the rhetoric of Joe Biden,” Gabe Carrera, one of the organizers, told the crowd.
Aren’t they cute?