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The New York Times reports: Even by a conspiracy theorist’s standards, the wild claims made by Representative Clay Higgins, Republican of Louisiana, stand out. The hard-right congressman, now in his fourth term in the House, has said that “ghost buses” took agent provocateurs to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to instigate the riot. He has claimed that the federal …

The Meidas Touch reports: Rep. Clay Higgins has always been pretty bizarre. He has a penchant for making menacing speeches at witnesses appearing before Congress, often threatening them with jail or some other consequence as a result of whatever conspiracy he has cooked up in his head to involve them in. His latest obsession is what he has called “ghost …

From the Heritage Foundation’s Daily Signal: “We believe that there were easily 200 FBI undercover assets operating in the crowd, outside the Capitol, embedded into groups that entered the Capitol or provoked entry of the Capitol,” Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., said. Higgins appeared on the Tucker Carlson Network for an interview that aired Saturday, the third anniversary of the day …

“So, let me say, regarding Jack Smith and his request for another list of American citizens under some alleged legitimate investigative effort. I consider it a badge of honor to be on another one of Jack Smith’s lists. So, I’ll just say that his days are numbered and American patriots are not gonna stand idly by, good sir, and allow …

“The very fact that we have all read ‘the investigative report’ indicates a level of public character assassination that I have not witnessed through 4 terms of Congressional service. This report is posing as an objective presentation of fact, yet it is most certainly written with notable disregard for professional objectivity, and it is wrapped in a media incensed public …

Lafayette’s NBC affiliate reports: Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins told a federal judge last week that the Texas man who pled guilty to assaulting police while storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 was “a man of good character, faith, and core principles.” Ryan Taylor Nichols pled guilty last Tuesday to two counts of obstruction and assaulting, resisting or impeding …

“Are you familiar with – do you know what a ghost vehicle is? You’re the director of the FBI, you certainly should. Do you know what a ghost bus is? It’s pretty common in law enforcement. It’s a vehicle that’s used for secret purposes. It’s painted over. “These two buses in the middle here [points to photo] were the first …

Via press release from the GOP Rep. Clay Higgins: American conservatives are shocked at the level of corruption and targeted persecution we’re witnessing out of our DOJ and FBI. We are outraged and rightfully so, and we want to protect our freedoms and preserve our Republic. However, we’re not willing to violate our Constitution, even as we recognize the dire …

The New Republic reports: Republicans are quadrupling down on defending the man who has helped them lose election after election. Ohio Senator J.D. Vance said the indictment is somehow Biden “using the justice system to preemptively steal the 2024 election,” in order to attack “his most likely 2024 opponent.” A wild suggestion given the basic fact that a grand jury …

The Huffington Post reports: Republican Rep. Clay Higgins (La.) sparked criticism Wednesday after he aggressively removed a protester from a press conference in Washington D.C. Jake Burdett, 25, posted footage to Twitter on Wednesday afternoon confronting Reps. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) at a media event in the Capitol. In one clip, the activist yells questions toward Gosar …

“Bottom line is that the FBI had the Biden crime family laptop for a year. They knew it would hurt the Biden campaign. So, the FBI used its relationship with Twitter to suppress criminal evidence being revealed about Joe Biden one month before the 2020 elections. “You, ladies and gentlemen interfered with the United States of America 2020 presidential election, …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) deleted a tweet spreading a nasty conspiracy theory in the aftermath of the brutal attack of Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). On Sunday, Higgins tweeted what appears to be a doctored pic of Pelosi covering her eyes with one of them looking bruised. This was accompanied by Higgins writing …

NBC News reports: A Republican member of Congress from Louisiana said Sunday that he was sick with Covid-19 for the second time as a surge of new infections hits parts of the U.S. with low vaccination rates. Referring to the disease as the “biological attack weaponized virus” from China, Rep. Clay Higgins said on Facebook that the latest infection is …

Mediaite reports: In a roughly four-minute-long, incredibly bizarre video, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) claimed he had “insider data” that proved the 2020 presidential election had been rigged. “Our nation, right now, and I have inside data, this election is compromised. Our president is not compromised. I stand with him, if anybody likes it or not. I’m telling you right now,” …

The Hill reports: Democratic Louisiana House candidate Rob Anderson is fundraising off of opponent Rep. Clay Higgins’s (R) Friday claim that his wife has “the gift of premonition” and woke up this week crying over a dream of a dystopian future. Higgins tweeted Friday that his wife dreamed that “Federal squads were in our home seizing guns, knives, ‘unauthorized foods’ …

The Huffington Post reports: Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) said he’d be more than willing to shoot any armed demonstrators in Louisiana in a Facebook post Tuesday that was accompanied by a picture of Black men with guns. “One way ticket fellas,” he wrote on his campaign account. “Have your affairs in order. Me?… I wouldn’t even spill my beer. I’d …

Roll Call reports: Rep. Clay Higgins has an idea for how to get Congress to clean up its act: random drug screenings. “I have observed some behavior that would cause one to wonder,” Higgins, a freshman GOP congressman from Louisiana said, apparently joking. But his legislation to proposal to test senators and House members for drug use once per term …

The Associated Press reports: Officials at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum have criticized a Louisiana congressman for narrating part of a five-minute video from inside a former gas chamber at the Nazi concentration camp in Poland. Louisiana news outlets report that U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins posted the video Saturday. In it, the Republican says the gas chamber killings took only …