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The events of January 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol were not “the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result,” according to
Officials quoted in an exclusive Reuters report have blown the Democrats’ narrative about Jan. 6th wide open.
Democrats have pushed a false narrative that the events of January 6, 2021 were an organized attempt to overturn the presidential election result.
The only problem is that this claim lacks evidence, according to officials. On the contrary, there is strong evidence that roughly 96% of cases were “one-off incidents” and only 4% could be tied to various militia-type groups. These groups were still not centrally coordinated.
Officials state in the Reuters reports that the events of Jan. 6th at the U.S. Capitol were not “the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result.”
“FBI at this point believes the violence was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups or prominent supporters of then-President Donald Trump,” the report adds.
“The FBI has so far found no evidence that he [President Trump] or people directly around him were involved in organizing the violence, according to the four current and former law enforcement officials,” it continued.
The new report vindicates Trump as being falsely linked to allegedly inciting or organizing the events of Jan. 6th and wrongfully banned by social media platforms.
A former senior law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation explained, “Ninety to ninety-five percent of these are one-off cases.”
“Then you have five percent, maybe, of these militia groups that were more closely organized,” he added.
“But there was no grand scheme with Roger Stone and Alex Jones and all of these people to storm the Capitol and take hostages,” he concluded.
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EXCLUSIVE FBI finds scant evidence U.S. Capitol attack was coordinated-sources https://t.co/Y6DEbtqoWo
— Dan Gainor (@dangainor) August 20, 2021
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This new revelation that runs opposite most of the liberal media and Democrat narratives about January 6 comes after federal officials arrested more than 500 alleged participants in the course of their investigation but turned up no central plot organized by President Trump or his administration…
The only coordination, then, was among smaller groups of organizations not directly affiliated with President Trump and his administration. “Cells of protesters, including followers of the far-right Oath Keepers and Proud Boys groups, had aimed to break into the Capitol,” Reuters reports, “But they found no evidence that the groups had serious plans about what to do if they made it inside, the sources said.”
The FBI has subsequently filed conspiracy charges against 40 individuals who allegedly engaged in some form of planning, though “so far prosecutors have steered clear of more serious, politically-loaded charges that the sources said had been initially discussed by prosecutors, such as seditious conspiracy or racketeering.” Rather, “conspiracy charges that have been filed allege that defendants discussed their plans in the weeks before the attack and worked together on the day itself. But prosecutors have not alleged that this activity was part of a broader plot.”
The FBI’s findings strike a blow to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s largely partisan committee to investigate the events of January 6th as her attempts to prove a grand conspiracy by President Trump, his administration, and allies in Congress are now contradicted by federal law enforcement findings.