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erronis

(24,637 posts)
Sat May 23, 2026, 06:00 PM May 23

Who Was President on January 6th?

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.
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Who Was President on January 6th? (Original Post) erronis May 23 OP
It's difficult for me to understand why TFG keeps relitigating January 6 UpInArms May 23 #1
Because he's narcissistic senility compels him nt Javaman May 23 #11
I saw a facebook post today where the MAGAts are saying Biden doc03 May 23 #2
Wasn't it Biden who: Chasstev365 May 23 #5
You never mentioned the Bowling Green Incedent. nt doc03 May 23 #6
Great Band Name: Bowling Green Massacre! Chasstev365 May 23 #9
or the war of 1812 choie May 23 #13
No silly MustLoveBeagles May 23 #14
I thought it was Biden who fucked the hooker bottomofthehill May 23 #15
It boggles the mind how anyone can still listen to this pathological liar... Chasstev365 May 23 #3
"If this is so, which it is". LuckyCharms May 23 #4
A kindergarten teacher would call out a pupil for such a moronic statement. erronis May 23 #8
ROFL malaise May 23 #7
Kick dalton99a May 23 #10
Yet Trump pardoned them. Norrrm May 23 #12

UpInArms

(55,475 posts)
1. It's difficult for me to understand why TFG keeps relitigating January 6
Sat May 23, 2026, 06:05 PM
May 23

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?

doc03

(39,212 posts)
2. I saw a facebook post today where the MAGAts are saying Biden
Sat May 23, 2026, 06:09 PM
May 23

bankrupted Sprit Airlines.

Chasstev365

(8,220 posts)
5. Wasn't it Biden who:
Sat May 23, 2026, 06:15 PM
May 23

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

bottomofthehill

(9,441 posts)
15. I thought it was Biden who fucked the hooker
Sat May 23, 2026, 11:43 PM
May 23

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



LuckyCharms

(23,168 posts)
4. "If this is so, which it is".
Sat May 23, 2026, 06:09 PM
May 23

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

What a fucking asshole.

erronis

(24,637 posts)
8. A kindergarten teacher would call out a pupil for such a moronic statement.
Sat May 23, 2026, 06:29 PM
May 23

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

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