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TexasTowelie

(116,823 posts)
Tue Jun 14, 2022, 07:59 PM Jun 2022

Ted Cruz still peddling baseless conspiracy theory that FBI incited Jan. 6 riot

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.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2022/06/14/ted-cruz-still-peddling-baseless-conspiracy-theory-that-fbi-incited-jan-6-riot/

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Ted Cruz still peddling baseless conspiracy theory that FBI incited Jan. 6 riot (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2022 OP
You are a fucking TRAITOR Eliot Rosewater Jun 2022 #1
Squirming traitor about to get called out by name for the pardon bum rush, and raphael is a scumbag Comfortably_Numb Jun 2022 #2
So, Rafael, when did you stop ReluctanceTango Jun 2022 #3
Cancun Ted is desperate to deflect. Haggis 4 Breakfast Jun 2022 #4
 

ReluctanceTango

(219 posts)
3. So, Rafael, when did you stop
Tue Jun 14, 2022, 10:26 PM
Jun 2022

raping your kids? Why are you mad? I'm also "just asking questions."

Same concept as him making accusations about FBI provocateurs.

Haggis 4 Breakfast

(1,456 posts)
4. Cancun Ted is desperate to deflect.
Tue Jun 14, 2022, 10:48 PM
Jun 2022

Stories are hitting the news like mad about Lauren Boebert -- if true, REAL bombshells -- and Cruz is involved in one aspect. He donated money to her campaign (some are calling it blackmail money) which he reported on his FEC forms, but she did not.

Watch that space.
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