GOP Rep Gosar sends fundraising email claiming ‘FBI might have had a hand in planning and...

After he denied plans for a campaign fundraiser with a white nationalist who supported the Capitol insurrection, Republican US Rep Paul Gosar told supporters in a fundraising email that “the FBI might have had a hand in planning and carrying out” the attack on 6 January.

His baseless claims have been circulating among congressional Republicans who have sought to distance themselves from the false stolen election narrative that inspired the attack in the first place.

The conspiracy theory was shared across right-wing media – amplified by Fox News host Tucker Carlson – and has prompted GOP lawmakers to demand federal law enforcement to disclose whether undercover agents or informants were involved in the attack.