Was The FBI Behind Jan 6th? This MAGA Candidate Thinks So

By Mark Gruber | Friday, 10 June 2022 07:25 PM
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A Republican candidate in the Arizona Senate race doubted the roots of the January 6 Capitol riot, adding to conspiracies that the riot had been orchestrated.

Blake Masters, a Republican endorsed by former President Donald Trump, had met with conservative activists at a Phoenix IHOP restaurant on March 30, where he was questioned if he would back investigating U.S. intelligence operations to reveal the federal government’s “nefarious activities,” to which he answered, “absolutely,” according to a recording of the meeting obtained by CNN.

“Don’t we suspect that, like, one-third of the people outside of the Capitol complex on January 6 were actual FBI agents hanging out,” Masters questioned at the GrassRoots Tea Party Activists of Arizona event. “What did people know? And when did they know it? We got to get to the bottom of this.”

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The Arizona Senate candidate has attended many Trump rallies since Trump’s loss in the 2020 election and visited Trump’s Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, in May to watch a screening of Dinesh D’Souza’s election fraud documentary 2000 Mules. A campaign ad from November 2021 revealed Masters declaring, “I think Trump won in 2020.”

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Masters is one of many Republican candidates who have pushed Trump’s allegation that the results of the 2020 election were fraudulent, many of whom have been backed by the former President before the 2022 midterm elections.

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The January 6 hearings, supposed to start airing on Thursday, will feature “unseen material documenting January 6th, receive witness testimony, preview additional hearings, and provide the American people a summary of its findings of the coordinated, multi-step effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and prevent the transfer of power,” with U.S. Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards and documentary filmmaker Nick Quested slated to testify, according to the January 6 Committee.

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In January, Masters joined Trump at a rally in Arizona, where the former President questioned, “Exactly how many of those present at the Capitol complex on January 6 were FBI confidential informants, agents or otherwise working directly or indirectly with an agency of the United States government?” In May, Masters returned to Mar-a-Lago to watch a screening of Dinesh D’Souza’s election conspiracy documentary “2000 Mules.”

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At the Tea Party event, Masters articulated an anti-institution worldview. He insisted that “Big Tech” altered its algorithms to attempt and help Joe Biden win the White House and announced that the United States has a “two-tiered justice system” where Liberal rioters receive lighter sentences than non-violent, pro-Trump trespassers. And he advocated to fire “everybody you can” at the politically “weaponized” Justice Department.

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