President Donald Trump appeared to forget his own role in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot in a post to Truth Social early Sunday morning. While Joe Biden had been elected two months earlier, he wasn’t officially president until January 20 — two weeks after the riot.

In a 1 a.m. post, Trump claimed the “BIDEN FBI” was responsible for the Capitol riot, framing the Biden administration as accountable. The claim is obviously flawed: Trump himself was president at the time, meaning any federal law enforcement involved would have been under his administration, not Biden’s.

Legal experts quickly noted the inaccuracy. The Justice Department and FBI operate under long-standing rules designed to maintain independence from political influence, but Trump’s framing misrepresents the timeline and th

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