Who believes Jan 6 was a fed setup?

The claim: Federal agents or informants planned or provoked the January 6 Capitol breach. Counts as saying it's true: Says or endorses that the FBI or other federal agents or informants instigated, organised or provoked the breach, or that it was staged. Counts as saying it's false: Says the breach was carried out by Trump supporters acting on their own, and that federal agents did not instigate it.

Says it's true (7)

Joe Rogan: “The Jan. 6 thing is bad, but also, the intelligence agencies were involved in provoking people into the Capitol Building. That's a fact” (2023-07-28, source)
Marjorie Taylor Greene: “We need names and answers about the FBI operatives, who were involved in organizing and carrying out the Jan 6th Capitol riot,” (undated, source)
Alex Jones: “turn out to be feds with idiots they provocateured to be part of it, the Q people” (2021-01-14, source)
Donald Trump: “FBI Agents were at, and in, the January 6th Protest, probably acting as Agitators” (2025-09-27, source)
Jimmy Dore: “January 6 was an FBI operation, just like the kidnapping of Governor Whitmer.” (2026-06-03, source)
Candace Owens: “This is common sense. The most obvious clue that the DOJ was behind January 6th were the pipe bombs that were dropped off the night before by an anonymous person who the FBI claims to still be searching for.” (2021-06-16, source)
Tucker Carlson: “But direct incitement by federal agents? The intentional entrapment of American citizens? No decent person wants to believe that. But increasingly there’s evidence it is true,” (2021-11-01, source)

Hints it's true (7)

Michael Flynn: “January 6th was a complete setup” (2026-10-02, source)
Jack Posobiec: “Ray Epps is on video directing people to attack the Capitol. Ray Epps texted his nephew 'I orchestrated it' But if they charged him with incitement, they couldn't indict Trump, so they protected Epps. Are you getting it yet?” (2022-12-31, source)
Elon Musk: “Jan 6 certainly had a large organic component, but there were some undercover government agents in the mix, which the government has admitted is true.” (2024-01-15, source)
Dan Bongino: “I believe the FBI knows the identity of this pipe bomber on January 6th, four years ago, and just doesn't wanna tell us 'cause it was an inside job.” (2025-01-01, source)
Ian Carroll: “the theory is that there are certain agencies that are professionals at co-opting mobs movements protests like it is literally Co inel pro 101” (2023-11-13, source)
Laura Loomer: “Today is the 3 year anniversary of the January 6 protests. 3 years ago today, patriots protested the 2020 stolen election. 3 years ago today, the FBI and other deep state bad actors decided to take advantage of the protests for the sake of creating a false flag with the help of” (2024-01-06, source)
Nick Fuentes: “was just a big psyop/false flag.” (2022-02-23, source)

Unclear (3)

Stephen Colbert: “for something that Tucker says didn't happen, there sure are a lot of people pleading guilty to it” (2023-03-07, source)
JD Vance: “For those keeping score at home, this was labeled a dangerous conspiracy theory months ago.” (2024-12-13, source)
Russell Brand: “THEN FBI Whistleblowers dropped BOMBSHELL info About JAN 6 Informants #YouWereRight” (2023-12-26, source)

Hints it's false (10)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “Because there are no consequences in the Republican caucus for violence. There’s no consequences for racism. No consequences for misogyny. No consequences for insurrection. And no consequences mean that they condone it.”” (2021-01-28, source)
Hillary Clinton: “January 6th last year was a gift to them, because they know something we need to remember: America is only as strong as our unity and our democracy allows us to be.” (2022-02-17, source)
Anderson Cooper: “Last night, Carlson called people who breached the Capitol 'sightseers' instead of insurrectionists” (2023-03-07, source)
Bill Maher: “Whenever they do some f*cked up sh*t, it's always us dressed up as them” (2021-05-29, source)
John Oliver: “if we've learned anything from January 6th and it seems that we have not learned nearly enough is that it's very easy for a joke to become reality and that a troubling number of people don't seem to understand the difference between storming the capital metaphorically and physic…” (2021-12-12, source)
Michael Shermer: “Even in 2020 when Trump said he won, when MAGA followers stormed the Capitol Jan 6, on Jan 20, 2021 Biden was POTUS & DJT was gone.” (2025-09-25, source)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “I think it was a protest that turned into a riot. I think there were people who wanted an insurrection.” (2024-04-09, source)
Ben Shapiro: “In what way, exactly? January 6 was a riot. Many people were violent. They were arrested and sentenced. But it's not newsworthy that the cops were apparently walking around the inside of the Capitol with QAnon Shaman?” (2023-03-08, source)
Donald Trump Jr.: “We need an Oval office address. He has to lead now. It has gone too far and gotten out of hand.” (2021-01-06, source)
Seth Meyers: “Republicans are still obsessed with trying to overturn the election of the 2020 election and rewrite the history of what happened during the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol.” (2021-06-22, source)

Says it's false (6)

Jon Stewart: “I think it's a ridiculous belief, but I have no doubt that there are massive numbers of people who sincerely hold that belief.” (2025-08-13, source)
Adam Kinzinger: “Let's say Ray was an agent (HE IS NOT), the premise is that one agent can gin up a crowd to insurrection.” (2022-01-11, source)
Piers Morgan: “I don’t expect Trump to ever admit he lost the election fairly or confess to being responsible for the January 6 carnage.” (2022-04-21, source)
Barack Obama: “History will rightly remember today's violence at the Capitol, incited by a sitting president who has continued to baselessly lie about the outcome of a lawful election, as a moment of great dishonor and shame for our nation.” (2021-01-06, source)
Liz Cheney: “Those who invaded our Capitol and battled law enforcement for hours were motivated by what President Trump had told them — that the election was stolen, and that he was the rightful President. President Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack.” (2022-06-09, source)
Rachel Maddow: “It was six months ago today that a Donald Trump rally on the ellipse morphed seamlessly into a violent mob attack by Trump supporters on the U.S. Capitol.” (2021-07-06, source)

No stance found (7)

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