A hard-right congressman from Louisiana, Rep. Clay Higgins, visited WWL on Thursday and stood by claims that “ghost buses” took outside agents to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to instigate the insurrection while F.BI. agents dressed up as MAGA supporters spurred people into invading the Capitol.
Higgins, an ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump, told guest host Don Dubuc that federal law enforcement officers illegally entrapped MAGA supporters into violently attacking the Capitol.
"Some of us have been investigating within the parameters and authorities of our offices," Higgins explained on the show, later adding, "It's quite a different narrative than what has been presented to America ... since 2020."
He added on the show that he asked pointed questions of the FBI during the Jan. 6 hearings because "At that time, I already knew the FBI had human assets dressed as Trump supporters positioned inside the Capitol prior to the doors being opened and the masses being waved in. I already knew that. I had the evidence."
Notably, this is what NOLA.com wrote about his questioning: "U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, R-Lafayette, last week embarrassed both himself and the state of Louisiana by using a House hearing to lob conspiracy-theory gibberish at FBI Director Christopher Wray,"
On WWL, Higgins credited "men like me" with "cracking" the narrative that MAGA supporters stormed the Capitol -- an event that has drawn thousands of investigations and 1,350 arrests, trials and sentencings in American courts across the country.
When pressed on the show about sources behind his claims, Higgins cited 'digital evidence,' demurring from naming any person or documentation that's credible.
"Through my own and with a senior position on the oversight committee, I have access to sources that are sort of baked in to that level of congressional service," he said. "Top secret security clearance and access to staff. Further, my own personal sources, confidential informants, span the country. I'm a very well known confidant to law enforcement across the country."
The New York Times wrote about Higgins' claims, saying that "even by a conspiracy theorist’s standards, the wild claims made by Representative Clay Higgins, Republican of Louisiana, stand out."
They added that Higgins has a "penchant for spreading unsupported theories, many of which portray law enforcement and the government in an evil, conspiratorial light."
A lawyer for the Proud Boys, whose members were charged with seditious conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6 attack, called the theory they were impersonated by federal agents or driven to act by them or bused in by secret ghost buses to the Capitol “slander” in court.