USMC Squashes Toys For Tots Event By Proud Boys

The Marine Corps Times reports:

A Pittsburgh breakfast restaurant had planned to hold a Toys for Tots event alongside the far-right extremist group Proud Boys this week. When Toys for Tots, started by a Marine reservist in 1947, found out about the unsanctioned event, it immediately distanced itself.

“To be clear, the Proud Boys are in no way affiliated with the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation and their use of the TOYS FOR TOTS name and logo is unauthorized and violates federal and state trademark laws,” Ted Silvester, a retired Marine colonel and spokesman for Toys for Tots, told Marine Corps times in an email.

Read the full article. The restaurant says they weren’t told the Proud Boys were involved or that Toys For Tots had not sanctioned the event. (Tipped by JMG reader Paul)