Trump’s Latest FBI Allegations on Jan. 6 Draw Swift Condemnation from Klobuchar, Prompt Calls for Review

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) vehemently criticized former President Donald Trump’s recent claims that the FBI secretly placed agents as “agitators” during the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, labeling the allegations “appalling.” Klobuchar’s comments, made Sunday on “Face the Nation,” directly followed Trump’s social media posts on Saturday where he asserted that 274 FBI agents were “secretly placed” in the crowd, calling for former FBI Director Chris Wray to explain.

Trump’s posts suggested these agents were “probably acting as Agitators and Insurrectionists,” directly contradicting a previous Office of the Inspector General report from late last year which found no evidence of undercover FBI employees in the protest crowds or at the Capitol on January 6.

Adding another layer to the controversy, FBI Director Kash Patel, nominated by Trump in January after Wray’s resignation, posted on X Saturday that “274 FBI agents were thrown into crowd control on Jan. 6,” a move he described as against FBI standards and a “failure… on corrupt leadership.” Patel, however, thanked agents for “stepping up,” suggesting “the truth is coming out.”

Klobuchar, who co-led a bipartisan investigation into the insurrection, underscored that their findings never indicated FBI agents acted as agitators. Instead, she emphasized, agents were “called in when there was such a delay in bringing in the military to assist” during an event that injured over 100 police officers. She acknowledged Patel’s clarification that agents were deployed “after the fact,” echoing calls from senators for urgent assistance that day.

Representative Mike Turner (R-Ohio) also weighed in on Sunday, noting that the reported number of agents “does seem to be significantly different than what anyone has heard before” and “certainly is concerning.” Turner advocated for a thorough review to determine if the information is new or a reinterpretation of existing facts.

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