Jon Stewart on Jan 6 Fed Setup: Denies

The claim: Federal agents or informants planned or provoked the January 6 Capitol breach.

Undated: “we all watched the footage of January 6, but I think we may have gotten a very different interpretation of it rather than the correct interpretation” source
Undated: “the people we saw earlier beating the sh*t out of police officers were hardworking, loving people provoked by law enforcement and ultimately they deserve a full pardon” source
2025-08-13: “Like the whole thing about Ray Epps being a federal agent and January 6th being a government operation where a group of agents urged Antifa to storm the Capitol, or that the deep state was protecting Epstein's list because of that. How much did they believe that? How cynical was that?” source
2025-08-13: “So, Mike, you're there when you're at the FBI and you see online that Ray Epps is a federal agent and that's why on January 6th... What's the recourse within the FBI to debunk that? Is there any kind of energy to debunk it?” source
2025-08-13: “I think it's a ridiculous belief, but I have no doubt that there are massive numbers of people who sincerely hold that belief.” source