Who Was President on January 6th?

[erronis]

https://digbysblog.net/2026/05/23/who-was-president-on-january-6th/

That's from October, btw, but circulating again. For some reason I missed it the first time and had to look up to see if it was real. It is (https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/17/politics/grocery-prices-fbi-january-6-trump).

Two days prior to Trump's social media post, a right-wing website had published a document that said 274 FBI agents had been deployed on January 6. But the document, whose authenticity CNN hasn't verified, made clear that these agents were responding to the riot and other incidents that day (like the pipe bombs found near Republican and Democratic offices), not instigating or perpetrating the riot. And the inspector general for the Justice Department found last year that the FBI had no undercover agents at all at the Capitol on January 6, though 26 of its paid informants were in Washington that day.

Kash Patel, the Trump-appointed director of the FBI, tried to correct the record about the activities of the 274 agents on January 6. He told Fox News on the day of Trump's post: "Agents were sent into a crowd control mission after the riot was declared by Metro Police - something that goes against FBI standards." Patel reiterated on the social media platform X, "274 FBI agents were thrown into crowd control on Jan 6 against FBI standards."

Even with the "against FBI standards" claim, Patel's statements represented a clear repudiation of the president's conspiracy theory.

Trump repeats the original false claim: Nearly two months later, Trump revived the conspiracy theory about the 274 agents on Monday morning. The president re-posted the September post in which he wrongly described the actions of the agents. And in a second Monday post, Trump promoted someone else's call for Wray to be indicted and imprisoned - and he wrote, baselessly, "Wray lied!!!"

Daniel Dale did an article on the lies this week. He has 28, I'll just excerpt a few of the worst whoppers

... Please read Digby's column for the rest. Well worth the time, again.

[UpInArms]

1. It's difficult for me to understand why TFG keeps relitigating January 6

I know about the big lie theory … say it often enough and stupid people will believe it.

But, this shit is so fukking dumb and annoying … I am just sick and tired of the repetitive lies and gaslighting

Can’t the stinking mass of cells just die already?

[Javaman]

11. Because he's narcissistic senility compels him nt

[doc03]

2. I saw a facebook post today where the MAGAts are saying Biden

bankrupted Sprit Airlines.

[Chasstev365]

5. Wasn't it Biden who:

Assassinated the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand
Kidnapped the Limbaugh baby
Aided the Japanese on the Battan Death March
Gave the Atomic Secret to the Soviet Union
Led the Bay of Pigs invasion
and caused the 3 Mile Island disaster?

Because a guy said so on the internet

[doc03]

6. You never mentioned the Bowling Green Incedent. nt

[Chasstev365]

9. Great Band Name: Bowling Green Massacre!

[choie]

13. or the war of 1812

[MustLoveBeagles]

14. No silly

That was Hillary Clinton.

[bottomofthehill]

15. I thought it was Biden who fucked the hooker

While his third wife, the stripper and second imigrant wife, was pregnant with his 4th anchor baby. Although I may be confused as there were so many

[Chasstev365]

3. It boggles the mind how anyone can still listen to this pathological liar...

[LuckyCharms]

4. "If this is so, which it is".

Ladies and gentlemen, that's the president of the United States.

What a fucking asshole.

[erronis]

8. A kindergarten teacher would call out a pupil for such a moronic statement.

It's the obvious skeletal framework for a lie. His brain will be a interesting study - soaked in formaldehyde to cut the stench.

[malaise]

7. ROFL

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He really thinks everyone is stupid.

[dalton99a]

10. Kick

[Norrrm]

12. Yet Trump pardoned them.