WaPo Poll: 25% Of Americans Say FBI Instigated Riot

The Washington Post reports:

Twenty-five percent of Americans say it is “probably” or “definitely” true that the FBI instigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, a false concept promoted by right-wing media and repeatedly denied by federal law enforcement, according to a new Washington Post-University of Maryland poll.

The Post-UMD poll finds a smaller 11 percent of the public overall thinks there is “solid evidence” that FBI operatives organized and encouraged the attack, while 13 percent say this is their “suspicion only.”

“The people that went there to express their views, to support Trump, were peaceful,” said Richard Baum, 61, an independent voter from Odessa, Tex. “The government implants were the violent ones: the FBI, the police people that were put in there, the antifa and BLM hired by George Soros; everybody knows that.”

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New Wash Post poll finds 25 percent of Americans believe the FBI instigated the Jan 6 Capitol riots, despite no proof after 3 yrs of trials, investigations. No paywall: https://t.co/ZBzelQFBma

— Tom Jackman (@TomJackmanWP) January 4, 2024