The president-elect made a series of misleading and false claims during his Tuesday press conference.

Published January 8, 2025

During a press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump made several misleading and incorrect statements related to the events of January 6, 2021, when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building after a rally. These include claiming that some people who participated in January 6-related events “came from the FBI,” that some January 6 participants were imprisoned despite having never entered the Capitol building that day, that there “wasn’t one gun found” by protesters on January 6, and that the FBI knows the identity of the unidentified suspect who placed pipe bombs outside the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington on January 5.

Claim: The FBI was involved on January 6.

When asked whether Trump would pardon January 6 offenders charged with violent crimes, the president-elect responded by making claims about the FBI’s involvement. “I guess 24 or 28 people came now from the FBI—that came out very quietly,” Trump said. “Nobody reported it, but they had people in some form related to the FBI. They had four or five people that were strongly related to the FBI. We have to find out about that.”

This claim is missing context. Trump is referencing a December 12 report from the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General that found there were 26 FBI confidential...

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