WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz has been peddling a conspiracy theory for weeks suggesting that the FBI incited the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
In this scenario, the nation’s prime law enforcement agency prodded supporters of defeated President Donald Trump to ignore police lines, assault officers, smash through doors, turn flagpoles into spears, invade the Senate chamber and threaten the vice president and House speaker.
No evidence has surfaced for this explosive theory. And the purported motives for such a conspiracy are murky.
