In a late-night Truth Social post, President Donald Trump demanded action against "THE BIDEN FBI" for allegedly placing 274 agents into the crowd on January 6, 2021, a date when Trump himself was the sitting president overseeing that very same FBI.
The president wrote in all caps 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," calling it a "SCAM" and demanding his supporters "DO SOMETHING!!!" The post, which arrived at approximately midnight, appeared to suffer from a minor temporal confusion regarding which president was actually president at the time of the incident in question.
Trump was indeed the president on January 6, 2021, with Joe Biden not taking the oath of office until two weeks later, a fact that remains stubbornly unchanged despite the former and current president's apparent attempt to retroactively reassign executive authority.
The accusation represents a bold new strategy in political accountability: blaming one's successor for events that occurred during one's own administration. Sources close to the president say he may next hold the Biden administration responsible for the 2017 federal budget, the 2018 government shutdown, and possibly the existence of Mar-a-Lago itself.
Multiple investigations have found no evidence supporting claims that FBI agents acted as agitators or insurrectionists on January 6, with hundreds of agents responding to the riot but none instructed to break the law or encourage others to do so. However, these findings were apparently conducted using the outdated method of examining what actually happened, rather than the more modern approach of determining what should have happened in an alternate timeline.
FBI Director Kash Patel, nominated by Trump himself, clarified that 274 FBI agents were deployed for crowd control on January 6, a standard law enforcement response to a massive gathering that somehow became evidence of a sinister plot orchestrated by a man who wouldn't become president for another 14 days.
The president's demand for "big apologies" has raised questions about the space-time continuum's liability insurance policy. Legal experts note that if Trump's theory is correct, it would mark the first time in American history that a president-elect secretly controlled federal law enforcement agencies before taking office, which would be a remarkable constitutional innovation that somehow went unnoticed by the 17 intelligence agencies, the entire legislative branch, and basic logic.
At press time, Trump was reportedly considering whether Barack Obama's FBI was responsible for events during the Grant administration.
