Just as U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., confirmed he believes “there were easily 200 FBI undercover assets” instigating the crowd during the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, former Vice President Mike Pence has suggested another viewpoint.
While Higgins revealed there were FBI “assets” operating in the crowd, outside the Capitol, embedded into groups that entered the building and having “provoked’ protesters, Pence says he believes the FBI’s “repeated assurances … that they were not involved and I take them at their word.”
According to a report from Politico, Pence disagrees with President Donald Trump’s assertions that the FBI played a role in instigating protesters who turned their opposition to the events that day into a riot.
“I’ve heard the many repeated assurances from the FBI that they were not involved, and I take them at their word,” Pence told CNN.
Trump has described those who allegedly were instigated by Antifa and FBI agenda into making that day not jut a protest but a riot in which the Capitol building was vandalized as “hostages.”
That description was echoed recently Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y.
But Pence explained, “I’ve seen the director of the FBI repeatedly assure the American people that the FBI were not the instigators of the riot that occurred on January 6. And frankly I’m very grateful for the efforts of the FBI to bring nearly a thousand people to justice who ransacked our Capitol and did violence against police officers that day.
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