As a 23-year-old serving his first term in the Oregon state legislature, Representative Earl Blumenauer …
Read More »G.O.P. Congressman’s Wild Claim: F.B.I. Entrapped Jan. 6 Rioters
Even by a conspiracy theorist’s standards, the wild claims made by Representative Clay Higgins, Republican of Louisiana, stand out. The hard-right congressman, now in his fourth term in the House, has said that “ghost buses” took agent provocateurs to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to instigate the riot. He has claimed that the federal government is waging a “civil …
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