Undercover FBI agents had no role in U.S. Capitol attack: report

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Trump has lauded them as "patriots" and "political prisoners" and pledged to pardon many of them when he returns to the White House.
46% : Thousands of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol on January 6 in a bid to prevent congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden's election victory.
24% : Right-wing media and even some Republican lawmakers have spuriously claimed that undercover FBI agents provoked the attack on Congress, which followed a fiery speech by Trump in which he falsely claimed the election had been stolen.
22% : FBI deputy director Paul Abbate was quoted as saying this was a "basic step that was missed" in "understanding the threat picture prior to January 6."Trump was impeached by the Democratic-majority House of Representatives following the attack on the Capitol, but acquitted by the Senate.
14% : Trump supporters clash with police as they storm the US Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021 (Olivier DOULIERY/AFP)Undercover FBI agents were not present during the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump supporters, a Justice Department watchdog said Thursday in a report debunking a popular right-wing conspiracy theory.

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