Proud Boys saw themselves as "Trump's army" and were "thirsting for violence," says prosecutor in Jan. 6 trial.

Prosecutors in the trial against former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants charged with seditious conspiracy for their alleged role in the U.S. Capitol insurrection have argued that the group viewed themselves as foot soldiers fighting for Donald Trump. The prosecution has sought to link the violence on Jan. 6 to the rhetoric and actions of the former president. The defense has argued that there was no evidence of a conspiracy or plan for the Proud Boys to attack the Capitol. The trial marks the first major trial involving leaders of the far-right Proud Boys, a neofacist group of self-described “Western chauvinists” that remains a force in mainstream Republican circles.