This news story is emblematic of Trump's attempt to rewrite history. And unfortunately, it is going to spawn countless embedded twitter posts by his stooges here claiming these accusations as fact. Fair and balanced reporting warns: "be careful to believe ANYTHING the known propagandist, known liar, known arsonist to all truth and fact-finding practices, has to say."
And whereupon he claims others are guilty of treason… there is only one person guilty of Jan 6 treason, and that is the man trying to extrapolate himself from it here. He organized the crimes of that day for his sole benefit.
Days after the Justice Department indicted James Comey, President Donald Trump has suggested that another former FBI director, Christopher Wray, could come under investigation.
Trump on Saturday railed against Wray, whom Trump nominated in 2017 to replace Comey, claiming in a Truth Social post that he had covered up the involvement of FBI agents "acting as Agitators and Insurrectionists" in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump has repeated the unfounded claim that the FBI incited the Capitol riot which occurred after Trump rallied thousands of his supporters over false claims that the 2020 election, which Joe Biden won, had been stolen.
"I want to know who each and every one of these so-called 'Agents' are, and what they were up to on that now 'Historic' Day. Many Great American Patriots were made to pay a very big price only for the love of their Country. I owe this investigation of 'Dirty Cops and Crooked Politicians' to them!" Trump posted.
Trump's comments come as his Administration has launched several investigations into his perceived political adversaries, including Comey last week. Earlier this month, Trump directed Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department to more aggressively investigate his foes. And in July, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard outlined claims of criminal wrongdoing against former President Barack Obama and others, whom Trump accused of "treason." Critics have sounded the alarm that Trump is weaponizing the DOJ to persecute his opponents and eroding the department's independence.
"I would imagine. I would certainly imagine. I would think they are doing that," Trump told NBC on Sunday when asked if the Justice Department is investigating Wray. He added that Wray "did a terrible job and we just found out about it."
"I think a lot of his service was very inappropriate," Trump told NBC. "But we haven't gone beyond that. Don't forget, we just found out about all of these FBI agents being there."
Here's what to know.
Trump pushes claim of '274 FBI' instigators at Jan. 6 'Hoax'
Trump claimed on Truth Social that "the FBI had secretly placed, against all Rules, Regulations, Protocols, and Standards, 274 FBI Agents into the Crowd just prior to, and during, the January 6th Hoax. This is different from what Director Christopher Wray stated, over and over again! That's right, as it now turns out, FBI Agents were at, and in, the January 6th Protest, probably acting as Agitators and Insurrectionists, but certainly not as 'Law Enforcement Officials.'"
Last week, conservative media outlet Blaze Media, citing an unnamed congressional source, reported that the FBI had "embedded" 274 plainclothes agents in Jan. 6 crowds. The report contradicts previous findings from the Justice Department and reporting from other news outlets.
A December 2024 report from the DOJ's Office of the Inspector General found "no evidence in the materials we reviewed or the testimony we received showing or suggesting that the FBI had undercover employees in the various protest crowds, or at the Capitol, on January 6." The report did find that 26 FBI informants were in Washington, D.C., that day for election-related protests.
A former senior FBI official who is familiar with the FBI's actions on Jan. 6 told NBC that the Blaze article was "completely and utterly untrue," adding, "I know of no agents who were authorized to be in the crowds observing the constitutionally protected rights of citizens on Jan. 6."
Ty Cobb, who defended Trump's first administration during the Mueller investigation into his 2016 campaign's alleged collusion with Russia, also told CBS that he doubted Comey would be convicted, if the case ever reached trial.
Trump's moves, he said on the Sunday morning show Face the Nation, were "wholly unconstitutional [and] authoritarian" and an attempt to hoodwink future generations.
"Trump wants to rewrite history so that the next generation may not know that he incited a violent insurrection, refused to peacefully transfer the power of the presidency after losing an election, stole classified documents and showed them to friends and guests at Mar-a-Lago, and that he was a criminal," Cobb said.
"He's a convicted felon. All, anybody involved in those events that offended him, they're in real danger."
Cobb, a distant relative of the baseball legend with the same name, has become a vocal Trump critic since serving as his liaison to special counsel Robert Mueller, and said his role as lawyer for the administration, not as a personal attorney to the president, allowed him to call "balls and strikes" now.
He laid out why he thought the indictment against Comey, for allegedly lying to Congress, was fatally flawed; and assailed Trump's appointment of a White House aide with no prosecutorial experience to pursue the case, after he fired a federal prosecutor, Erik Siebert, when he declined to bring charges.
"So, you have the rewriting history stuff. The US attorney that he appointed, his personal lawyer Lindsey Halligan, her role previously in the administration was, you know, trying to eliminate the theory that, you know, America had slaves, at the Smithsonian," he said.
"She was there to whitewash the Smithsonian and paint America as something that it isn't. America needs to learn from the mistakes and lessons that we've had, and one of the biggest mistakes that America ever had was re-electing President Trump."
Cobb's front-row seat to the machinations of Trump's first term has made him an in-demand commentator on the workings of the second, and he told CBS he does not like what he sees.
"Former attorney general [Robert] Jackson, the Nuremberg prosecutor, highlighted in 1940 that the most important thing at the justice department when he was attorney general was that people not target individuals, that they merely pursue crimes," he said.
