Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Trump’s effort to move the Jan. 6 goalposts is literally unbelievable

"To hear Trump tell it, the fact that the Jan. 6 mob included some who were confidential FBI informants is evidence of a "disgrace." But that's preposterous: The far-right conspiracy theory wasn't that the Jan. 6 mob included some who were confidential FBI informants. We already knew this. Some even testified during Jan. 6 criminal cases. 

Rather, the conspiracy theory was that the FBI was somehow responsible for instigating the attack and entrapping Trump's poor, unsuspecting supporters. Horowitz's report — the one the president-elect seemed so excited about — discredited the bizarre idea. Not only did the IG conclude that the FBI informants weren't authorized or encouraged to break the law, but the same findings made clear that there were no undercover FBI employees at the Capitol, either…"

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