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Wray: No Evidence Capitol Riot Was Organized by 'Fake Trump Protesters'
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0:40Now PlayingFBI Director Chris Wray says the Jan. 6 siege on the Capitol was not organized by people posing as Trump supporters.
At a hearing Tuesday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin asked Wray if there was any evidence the attack was organized by “fake Trump protesters.”
Wray replied the FBI has “not seen evidence of that."
Some Republican members of Congress have suggested that left-wing protesters dressed up as Trump supporters to attack the Capitol, despite no evidence of that.
The group laid siege on the building and interrupted the count of presidential electoral votes after then-President Donald Trump told them in a speech to “fight like hell” to overturn his defeat to Democrat Joe Biden.
Wray testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday for the first time in almost two years. Wray is defending the bureau’s handing of intelligence indicating that there might be violence January 6.
He says the bureau immediately shared with other agencies a report that included “raw and unverified” intelligence predicting the attack.
A Jan. 5 report from the FBI’s Norfolk, Virginia, field office warned of online posts foreshadowing a “war” in Washington the following day. The former chief of the Capitol Police and others have said the information wasn’t flagged for them and was only sent in an email.
Wray says he did not see the report until after the insurrection but it was shared properly.
Five people died as result of the violence.
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