Report: FBI Deployed 274 Plainclothes Agents on Jan. 6

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Above: FBI agents at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., following the Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021. Image copyright: Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg/Getty Images

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Right narrative

This report, the content of which conservatives have intuitively understood for years, proves the lengths to which the FBI has gone to frame Trump supporters as dangerous criminals. Jan. 6 was just one example of this — they also conducted undercover operations on Turning Point USA and traditional Catholics. The top law enforcement agency in the country was not used to solve crime, but rather as a weapon against half the country.

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This overlooks what Americans know: violent Trump supporters attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, yet Republicans choose to restart futile probes to rewrite history while pardoning rioters. Ironically, they decry FBI "weaponization" under Biden when Trump is currently prosecuting ex-FBI Director Comey via political pressure and inexperienced appointees. Trump, not the left, is twisting "domestic terror" to target his opponents.

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