“A "ghost bus … filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters deployed onto our Capitol on January 6th.”
Clay Higgins
U.S. Representative. a congressional hearing. Claim dated 15 Nov 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Experts said they were unfamiliar with the term "ghost bus" and that there are reasons the FBI would not bus many informants to an event. Investigations haven't found evidence that the FBI was behind the Jan. 6 attack.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Clay Higgins (U.S. Representative) made this claim around 15 November 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 21 November 2023, 6 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- c-span.orghttps://www.c-span.org/video/?531784-1/secretary-mayorkas-fbi-director-wray-testify-globa…
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