Reuters is reporting what they call an EXCLUSIVE on what the FBI has concluded about the Jan. 6 break-in at the Capitol. Those events included a facepainted man in a bison hat and boisterous-but-unarmed people angry about the outcome of the presidential election and convinced of vote-counting fraud. Reuters writes:
The FBI has found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, according to four current and former law enforcement officials.
Though federal officials have arrested more than 570 alleged participants, the FBI at this point believes the violence was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups or prominent supporters of then-President Donald Trump, according to the sources, who have been either directly involved in or briefed regularly on the wide-ranging investigations.
They estimate maybe 5% of the 570 people arrested may have belonged to an organized group like the Oath Keepers or the Proud Boys, that’s about 30 people. Enough to do some property damage, not much more. This was no insurrection, the only person intentionally harmed of which I’m aware was one of the rioters who was shot by a Capitol policeman. Three others who died at that time and place have been ruled natural causes, perhaps exacerbated by the unaccustomed stress.
Reuters isn’t a source for off-the-wall conspiracy theories. This report has to give Nancy Pelosi serious heartburn, as she’s been alleging “revolutionary intent.” In truth the demonstrators were substantially less ‘prepared/armed’ than the typical Antifa or BLM mobs which nauseatingly have her arms-length support.
