“On Jan. 6: "And obviously the FBI was involved, because [FBI Director Christopher] Wray admitted the FBI was. Didn’t he say 23 people, indirectly or directly were involved? And it was then 26?”
What FactCheck.org found
A Department of Justice inspector general report found the FBI had no undercover agents embedded in the protest crowds that day, and while there were some FBI informants there, none of them were “directed by the FBI to encourage others to commit illegal acts.”
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In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 20 January 2025. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 January 2025, 4 days later. Its rating was “Distorts the Facts”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
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