Posted on 09/29/2025 12:27:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
After targeting one former FBI director he forced out, Trump raised the prospect of an investigation into a different former FBI director he forced out.
For more than four years, a wide variety of Republican conspiracy theorists clung to a ridiculous idea about the Jan. 6 attack: It was federal law enforcement, they’ve claimed, that secretly instigated the insurrectionist assault on the Capitol. The absurd claims grew so common that they were given a name: the “fedsurrection” narrative.
Indeed, at the heart of the theory is the idea that insurrectionist rioters were actually the victims on Jan. 6: These poor, unsuspecting partisans were actually entrapped by nefarious FBI personnel, the story goes.
The theory has long been preposterous, and late last year, it was definitely discredited when the Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, unveiled the detailed findings of a four-year investigation, which concluded that while there were FBI informants at the Capitol, no FBI officials were responsible for instigating the attack.
The trouble is, Republicans didn’t read the report — or the reporting about the report.
And so, when a conservative online outlet claimed late last week to have “bombshell” about the FBI and Jan. 6, Donald Trump and members of his team once again told the public that the FBI “staged” the attack on the Capitol and “secretly placed” agents in the Jan. 6 crowds. These partisans were, of course, either deeply confused or brazenly lying: FBI personnel went to the Capitol to assist the Capitol Police after the assault began, but that’s neither new nor controversial.
Even FBI Director Kash Patel released a “clarification,” pushing back against his own allies’ conspiracy theory, though that didn’t stop House Speaker Mike Johnson from peddling outrageously false claims soon...
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Where’s Kash’s list, with Comey number 1, and about 30 others?
Just because Wray engaged in traitorous actions doesn’t mean he’s a traitor ... or does it?
We need to know from video exactly which FBI agents were there and what actions they took. E.g., did they assault capitol police? Did they commit vandalism?
Ref the leaders of that agency, who authorized the wiretapping of a sitting president? Putting agents into his campaign?
Yes, major felonies were committed. Pretty obvious.
Good go after them all.
Steve's hands are out the picture because he's busy Toobin himself over his "clever" article...
Has Comey written his suicide note yet?
I thought I saw a video of one of them smashing a window at the Capitol.
Media: Outrageous! Just because he committed crimes is no reason a public servant should be held accountable! It simply isn’t done! Clearly fascism!
Guy looks like a dollar store version of Bruce Willis.
Ah, E Pluribus, I see that you are up to your old tricks. Quoting your freindly MSNBC, I note.
Ah, E Pluribus, I see that you are up to your old tricks. Quoting your freindly MSNBC, I note.
Really? Because the MSM has been blorphing for years that the idea that Feebs were there was just a right wing conspiracy theory.
One again I politely request that you stop stalking me.
I am your Sherlock Holmes to you, Moriarity.
And... What about Mayorkis? He lied, lied and lied some more to the Congress... Over and over. Really, what about Mayorkis?
And yet again, I politely request that you stop stalking me.
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