FBI Director Wray repeatedly rebuts claims that antifa activists attacked Capitol

If you repeat a lie often enough, pretty soon even you start to believe it.

March 2, 2021: FBI Director Christopher Wray explained that those who participated in the breach of the Capitol fell into two main groups of violent extremists — those associated with militia groups, such as Oath Keepers, and those who advocate white supremacy.

Wray's comments came after Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the top Republican on the committee, spent much of his opening remarks focused not on the right-wing extremists who attacked the Capitol in January, but on left-wing extremists, such as the anti-fascist, or antifa, movement. Grassley referred to how far-left protesters vandalized a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, in the summer and the state Democratic Party headquarters during President Joe Biden's inauguration.

Trump and many of his allies have repeatedly claimed that antifa activists were responsible for the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. At a hearing last week, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., read from an article that falsely blamed the violence at the Capitol on antifa, "fake Trump protesters" and "provocateurs." FBI Director Christopher Wray repeatedly rebuts claims that antifa activists attacked Capitol (nbcnews.com)