President Donald Trump confirmed what many had suspected about the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
In a Wednesday interview with Miranda Devine of the New York Post, Trump asserted that federal informants infiltrated the crowd gathered to hear him speak and played a role in inciting the violence that occurred at the Capitol. “Just so you understand, these are people that have been decimated,” he said, referring to those who were railroaded over Jan. 6. “These are people that lost their lives over nonsense, where the FBI said, ‘go in, go in, police, go in, go into the van.’” He added that many Jan. 6 defendants were “were supposed to serve five