Misleading January 6 video edit fuels FBI conspiracy theories
Source: Agence France-Presse
Misleading January 6 video edit fuels FBI conspiracy theories
Bill MCCARTHY / AFP USA
Wed, November 29, 2023 at 4:01 PM EST·4 min read
Conservative commentators are claiming a video compilation shows an undercover federal agent with an earpiece pulling Donald Trump supporters inside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. This is false; the edit combines unrelated clips of two different men charged in the riot -- one of whom wore a face mask with straps around his ears.
"Here's a possible Federal agent wearing an earpiece physically forcing people inside the Capitol on J6," says Rogan O'Handley, a conservative commentator who has previously promoted election disinformation, in a November 22, 2023 post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The video, which O'Handley also published on Instagram, shows someone pulling people through the Capitol Rotunda's eastern door before cutting to a close-up of a woman speaking to a man inside the building.
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The man caught on camera pulling other rioters through the door is Israel James Easterday of Munfordville, Kentucky, who in October was found guilty of six felonies and three misdemeanors (archived here and here).
The other man is Tyrone McFadden Jr of Baltimore, Maryland, ...
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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/misleading-january-6-video-edit-210159307.html
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