Trump Repeats FBI / J6 Connection Claim and Threatens Former Director Christopher Wray.

Former president Donald Trump has revived a claim that hundreds of FBI agents were secretly embedded in the crowd during the January 6 attack on the Capitol, using the figure of 274 as evidence that federal law enforcement helped provoke the violence.

In a post on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump accused the bureau of placing agents “against all rules” and said the number contradicts what Christopher Wray, who was FBI director at the time, had repeatedly told Congress. He described the agents as potential agitators and said Wray “has some major explaining to do,” grouping him with former director James Comey as someone who, in Trump’s view, “got caught lying.”

“It was just revealed that the FBI had secretly placed, against all Rules, Regulations, Protocols, and Standards, 274 FBI Agents into the Crowd just prior to, and during, the January 6th 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.” I want to know who each and every one of these so-called “Agents” are, and what they were up to on that now “Historic” Day. Many Great American Patriots were made to pay a very big price only for the love of their Country. I owe this investigation of “Dirty Cops and Crooked Politicians” to them! Christopher Wray, the then Director of the FBI, has some major explaining to do. That’s two in a row, Comey and Wray, who got caught LYING, with our Great Country at stake. WE CAN NEVER LET THIS HAPPEN TO AMERICA AGAIN!”

According to Politico, the 274 figure does not match the public record. It appears to have grown from misreadings of an inspector general report that documented the presence of a much smaller number of confidential human sources—private individuals who cooperate with law enforcement but are not FBI agents.

The watchdog found no evidence that FBI employees were planted in the crowd or instructed informants to incite violence. The report said some informants entered restricted areas without authorization, but it also said there was no indication they were directed to do so or that they were acting as undercover agents.

Despite this, Trump has portrayed the number as proof of a conspiracy and used it to escalate his confrontation with the FBI. By framing Wray’s previous testimony as false, he is suggesting that the former director could be held legally accountable in the same way that former director James Comey is being prosecuted. The implication is that Wray, like Comey before him, misled the country and might face consequences if Trump and his allies pursue the matter.