Proud Boys Juror Suggests Lack of Evidence Was Proof of Guilt in 'Seditious Conspiracy'

Andre Mundell, a 63-year-old retired DC resident, sat on the Proud Boys jury hearing evidence since February. I sat down with Mundell just hours after the verdicts were rendered and jurors were excused. Our conversation has been edited for length.

How quickly was the jury convinced on the seditious conspiracy charges?

The first day we elected a foreman. After that, we all put out our initial impressions of the evidence. We all voted and most people saw the evidence pointed towards seditious conspiracy. By the second day we had pretty much established guilty verdicts on the conspiracy, since that was count number one. First of all, we had to establish that there was a conspiracy then that it was a seditious conspiracy, because that involved the use of force. Not to overthrow the government, but to interfere with the government by use of force.

What evidence convinced you that the Proud Boys had entered into a seditious conspiracy?

It was all the chatter. All the chats. Parler, Telegram...those telegram text messages back and forth. Not just the chats, but also the private texts. I think that was what it boiled down to. What they had to say prior to Jan. 6 and the fact that they wanted to do so much in secret. And that's why the government couldn't present too much of the evidence that they had already deleted, because it was unrecoverable. So, they didn't they definitely didn't want people to know. They didn't want everybody to know the plan, the Proud Boys, because then I guess it would have gotten out. And they didn't want it to get out.

Hoping this is my last thread of the day but I can't pass up dissecting this batshit interview with a Proud Boys juror

Not only did they quickly convict on seditious conspiracy, this juror thought deleted messages were evidence of guilt---except the messages were probably... pic.twitter.com/sS47FG1Cve

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) May 5, 2023

Cell service was down everywhere in DC especially near Capitol. Nordean didn't have his phone on all day but sure, they should've texted each other to "stand down" or something. So that makes them seditionists, cool story, juror. pic.twitter.com/3SinYgp6Nj

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) May 5, 2023

Donald Trump famously told the Proud Boys, in September 2020 at the presidential debate, to "stand back and stand by." That came out in evidence in the trial. How important was that?

It was part of it. You can't single out one thing but the debate kind of got the ball rolling that the Proud Boys need to be part of this. We need to wait for the President to set things up. Then the tweet came (on Dec. 19) and Trump said, "Be there, will be wild." So they were there and they were wild.

There ya go... pic.twitter.com/fVxD73108G

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) May 5, 2023

Based on jury profile, nearly all were anti-Trump or at least Democrats.

And this juror wanted to make DAMN SURE another "insurrection" never happens again!

(Recall one juror had BLM yard sign, foreman was a BLM sympathizer.)

🍌republic pic.twitter.com/3PQuQQ2uZ1

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) May 5, 2023