Deleted Text Messages Swayed Proud Boys Jury

“Jurors who convicted four Proud Boys leaders of seditious conspiracy reviewed thousands upon thousands of text messages and private chats that the defendants sent in the weeks leading up to Jan. 6, 2021 — exchanges prosecutors described as the prelude to a violent effort to keep Donald Trump in power,” Politico reports.

“But paradoxically, it may have been the absence of key messages that sealed the case for prosecutors.”

“The thousands of messages they reviewed — extracted from the phones of Enrique Tarrio and his co-defendants — were peppered with blank slots where exchanges had been deleted.”