Vance, Musk, Ramaswamy Lie About FBI/Riot Report

Axios reports:

Vice President-elect Vance, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in their social media posts falsely conflated the FBI’s acknowledgement that several informants were at the riot and even entered the Capitol with a long-running conspiracy theory that the FBI staged the attack to discredit then-President Trump.

The report explicitly said that no FBI employees were present and that no FBI informants were authorized to participate.

Although the report established the FBI was not involved in spurring the events of Jan. 6, members of Trump’s incoming administration propped up the presence of the informants as proof of the exact opposite.

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For those keeping score at home, this was labeled a dangerous conspiracy theory months ago. https://t.co/gNJPUuRp5U

— JD Vance (@JDVance) December 12, 2024

What’s the difference between a “right-wing conspiracy” and reality? About 6 months. https://t.co/NZTdG0zKdn

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 13, 2024

If you uttered the facts in this IG report last year, you were labeled a “conspiracy theorist.” It’s also notable that the IG report came out literally the day after Christopher Wray resigned. https://t.co/7u6T2e4ZjN

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) December 12, 2024