President Donald Trump on Oct. 12 repeated false claims about the deadly Jan. 6 attack, suggesting in a social media post that former President Joe Biden placed FBI agents within the crowd.
The Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, when a violent mob swarmed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to stop the peaceful transfer of power after Biden won the 2020 presidential race, occurred while Trump was still in office. The presidential election was certified the day afterward, and Biden became president on Jan. 20, 2021.
"THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social overnight. "If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!!"
The post follows a similar claim he made on social media in late September. It also echoes years-long conspiracy theories that say the attack was directed by the government, despite multiple reports and investigations debunking the allegations.
A Justice Department inspector general report released December 2024 didn't find any evidence that the FBI had undercover employees in the protest crowds at the Capitol. The report concluded there were 26 FBI confidential sources not employees of the agency who independently attended Jan. 6 events in DC. Of those, the agency tasked three with reporting on possible domestic terrorists on Jan. 6, the report said, and four FBI...
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