Ted Cruz still peddling baseless conspiracy theory that FBI incited Jan. 6 riot [View all]

WASHINGTON – With House hearings underway on the Jan. 6 riot, Sen. Ted Cruz on Tuesday dusted off an ominous but unfounded conspiracy theory suggesting that the FBI incited the attack aimed at keeping Donald Trump in power.

“Is the kangaroo court in the House willing to press hard and get REAL answers as to what happened with the FBI on January 6? Or is this circus simply a failed Democrat campaign commercial?” Cruz tweeted to his 5.2 million followers.

The Texas Republican issued his challenge alongside video of his exchange with a senior FBI official during a February Senate hearing, at which he speculated that a former FBI informant had acted as an agent provocateur.

Cruz’s office provided no evidence, then or on Tuesday.

This “fed-surrection” theory is sharply at odds with allegations and evidence offered by the House select committee, whose members have accused Trump of inflaming the mob, and the Justice Department, which regards the Proud Boys as key instigators of the violence.

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