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Donald Trump leaned toward fantasy on Saturday evening as he blamed Joe Biden for events that happened while Trump was president and angrily insisted the FBI was in on a plot to frame him as his followers. Looks bad on 6 January 2021.
The president’s allies in Congress have often been vilified by the press for unfairly attacking the Biden administration over events that took place in 2020 and the beginning of 2021, such as Senator Jim Banks — who just last week wrongly emphasized That the 2020 US Census was “crafted by the Biden administration”. Other Republicans, in their enthusiasm to attack Democrats and support calls for a new census, have similarly forgotten who was president that year.
But now Trump himself is doing this. In a true social post On Saturday evening, he claimed in capital letters that the “Biden FBI” allegedly “deployed 274 agents into the mob on January 6th”.
“What a scam – do something!!! President DJT”, the post concluded.
Apparently, the “Biden FBI” did not exist On January 6, Nor did it exist in any of the weeks or months before the attack on the Capitol, when dozens of police officers were injured responding to a violent mob numbering thousands as rioters tore down barricades, broke windows, defaced the Capitol complex’s hallways and fought with law enforcement around the grounds.
After President Joe Biden was sworn in on January 20, 2021, the “Biden FBI” began to take shape later that month.
Donald Trump was president on January 6, and the FBI reported him that day – as did the DC National Guard. Trump himself was among the slowest to respond to the attack on the Capitol; Widespread reporting indicated that the Republican president was watching TV during the attack (after being told by the Secret Service that he could not personally attend).
Several hours passed before violence broke out at the US Capitol and the President issued a statement urging his followers to leave peacefully.
Allegations that the FBI was involved in inciting violence and disorder that day been accused for years by the president’s supporters, many of whom have long defended the presence of pro-Trump protesters at the Capitol to pressure Congress to overturn the 2020 election.
FBI officials and investigators in a January 6 bipartisan congressional investigation said there was no truth to those allegations, and Trump’s current FBI director, Kash Patel, has also refused to support that conspiracy claim.
Patel forced to explain The agency’s position on the deployment of agents on January 6 in late September, the first time Trump used his Truth social platform to amplify the conspiracy, wrote that FBI agents were “potentially acting as agitators and insurrectionists” in the crowd. The FBI director, responding in an interview, said the deployment occurred after the riot began.
Patel told Fox News Digital: “Agents were sent in on a crowd control mission after Metro Police declared a riot – something that goes against FBI standards.
“This was a failure of corrupt leadership that lied to Congress and the American people about what really happened.”
He added: “Thanks to the agents who came forward, we are now uncovering the truth. We are fully committed to transparency, and justice and accountability in this ongoing FBI investigation.”
But Trump was not satisfied with his explanation. that which remains stable On the alleged role of FBI agents in inciting their supporters to violence, many of them expressed their intentions to execute it on camera in police bodycam footage recovered after the attack. Last week on Truth Social, the president fumed that he wanted to know “who each of these so-called ‘agents’ are, and what they were doing on that ‘historic’ day.”
Within days after coming to office in January, President Moved to reduce sentences The attack involved hundreds of participants – many of whom had been convicted of violent crimes against members of law enforcement. He has also portrayed his political enemies as violent criminals, leading to crackdowns on cities including Washington DC, Chicago and Memphis.
The DOJ separately confirmed last year that about two dozen people who worked with the agency as confidential informants were present on Jan. 6, although most had not notified the agency in advance and no one was deployed to the scene by the bureau.
A month before taking the oath of office for the second time, Trump had insisted that members of Congress who participated in the January 6 bipartisan investigation should be sent to prison, although he had not accused either of them of committing crimes – only of standing by them. In recent weeks his DOJ, at his direction, has begun prosecuting his political enemies, including New York State Attorney General Letitia James.