Trump accuses Wray of lying about agency actions on January 6, days after Comey indicted [View all]

Source: CNN Politics

PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2025, 4:43 PM ET


President Donald Trump on Saturday accused former FBI Director Christopher Wray of lying about FBI agents’ presence during the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, days after his administration brought charges against Wray’s predecessor, James Comey.

Trump claimed, without evidence, that the FBI “secretly placed” agents into the crowds to act as “agitators and insurrections,” rather than law enforcement officials, in what he called “the January 6 hoax.”

“This is different from what Director Christopher Wray stated, over and over again! That’s right, as it now turns out, FBI Agents were at, and in, the January 6th Protest, probably acting as Agitators and Insurrectionists, but certainly not as ‘Law Enforcement Officials,’” Trump said on Truth Social. CNN has reached out to Wray for comment.

As CNN previously reported, no undercover FBI agents were at the Capitol during the January 6 riot, according to a Justice Department watchdog. However, the DOJ inspector general said that 26 paid FBI informants were in Washington, DC, that day.

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