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Claim: Martha’s Vineyard “deported 50 illegals after only 24 hours.” (Instagram posts, 2022-09-16)
Evidence (2024-09-12): On September 14, 2022, Florida governor Ron DeSantis sent approximately 50 primarily Venezuelan asylum seekers by air from San Antonio, Texas, to the island of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. The incident and ones like it have caused a partisan divide across the US. President Joe Biden and other Democrats called it "a political stunt and inhumane",[1][2] while Republicans such as Mitch McConnell "thought it was a good idea".[3] [...] Aftermath [edit]Texas sheriff investigation [edit]Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar, a Democrat, launched an investigation into the incident; Salazar alleged that a Venezuelan migrant was paid to recruit 50 migrants from a resource center in San Antonio, the county seat of Bexar County, to travel to Florida and eventually Martha's Vineyard.[21] Governor DeSantis responded to the allegations, saying the migrants were not misled: "They all signed consent forms to go and then the vendor that is doing this for Florida provided them with a packet that had a map of Martha's Vineyard, it has the number for different services that are on Martha's Vineyard."[21]
Claim: Martha’s Vineyard “deported 50 illegals after only 24 hours.” (Instagram posts, 2022-09-16)
Evidence (2023-05-12): - Florida's migrant relocation program also gets another $12 million after previously flying nearly 50 undocumented from Texas to Martha's Vineyard.
Claim: Martha’s Vineyard “deported 50 illegals after only 24 hours.” (Instagram posts, 2022-09-16)
Evidence (2023-03-22): The nearly 50 migrants Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flew from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard in September were later moved to a shelter at a military base several miles away in Massachusetts. After that, most of them found housing in other parts of the state. [...] DeSantis, a Republican who may run for president in 2024, made the claim during a speech in Iowa on March 10. While discussing his state’s approach to border security, DeSantis said to cheers and applause: "We even were able to deliver 50 illegal aliens to beautiful Martha’s Vineyard. They said they were a sanctuary area. They had signs saying nobody is illegal. They said all the refugees and the illegals are welcome and then they deported them the next day. Are you kidding me?" [...] DeSantis took credit for using Florida funds to charter the two private planes that flew the migrants from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard on Sept. 14. Days earlier, in a speech to GOP donors, DeSantis teased potentially sending people who cross the U.S. border illegally to the island, where about 20,000 people live year-round. He said he might do so to help relieve southern border states dealing with a huge spike in unauthorized crossings into the country.
Claim: Martha’s Vineyard “deported 50 illegals after only 24 hours.” (Instagram posts, 2022-09-16)
Evidence (2023-04-06): Ron DeSantis falsely said migrants deported from Martha’s Vineyard within 24 hours [...] "Then they got really upset about that….," DeSantis said in his speech, regarding the migrants’ arrival at Martha’s Vineyard. "They called out the National Guard and deported them within 24 hours. So these are people, these leftist elites, they want to impose their vision on society but they don't want to have to suffer the consequences of that vision, they want you to suffer the consequences." [...] DeSantis said when migrants arrived on Martha’s Vineyard, "They called out the National Guard and deported them within 24 hours."
Claim: Martha’s Vineyard “deported 50 illegals after only 24 hours.” (Instagram posts, 2022-09-16)
Evidence (2022-09-16): The roughly 50 migrants who were sent by plane to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts by Florida’s governor this week were taken to a military base Friday to receive shelter and humanitarian support, officials said. [...] The migrants had been flown from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday in arrangements made by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis – part of a series of moves by Republican governors to transport migrants to liberal enclaves to protest what they say are inadequate federal efforts on southern border security. [...] Some of these migrants were sent to Martha’s Vineyard even though they have immigration hearings scheduled nowhere near Massachusetts, the group said. Migrants released from government custody often move to other cities in the US as they go through their immigration proceedings.
Claim: Martha’s Vineyard “deported 50 illegals after only 24 hours.” (Instagram posts, 2022-09-16)
Evidence (2022-09-17): The asylum seekers – most of them from Venezuela – had been flown from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday under arrangements made by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis – part of a series of moves by Republican governors to transport migrants to liberal cities to protest what they describe as the failure of the federal government to secure the southern border. Martha’s Vineyard had not been expecting them but a small army of activists mobilized to help people who had become pawns in the contentious debate over America’s broken immigration system. [...] On Friday, after the migrants had left Martha’s Vineyard, a volunteer with the Harbor Homes nonprofit, Sean O’Sullivan, disassembled the folding cots that 18 of the male migrants slept on in the parish hall.
Claim: Martha’s Vineyard “deported 50 illegals after only 24 hours.” (Instagram posts, 2022-09-16)
Evidence (2022-09-16): So the three boarded one of at least two private planes with about 50 other migrants who were also promised jobs and months of free rent. Yet just before their arrival, they were told they were instead going to Martha’s Vineyard — an island south of Cape Cod, hours away from Massachusetts’ largest city. [...] The migrants’ arrivals on Martha’s Vineyard caught local officials and residents by surprise, though they quickly sprung into action alongside dozens of islanders who were suddenly thrust into a new and startling chapter in the nation’s long-running political war over immigration. [...] Lisa Belcastro, a shelter organizer on Martha’s Vineyard, said she was glad she was able to welcome the migrants and offer them kindness. She said the assembly of volunteers who showed up were able to provide some sense of peace to the otherwise tumultuous day.
Claim: Martha’s Vineyard “deported 50 illegals after only 24 hours.” (Instagram posts, 2022-09-16)
Evidence (2023-10-15): Neither one knew they were going to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. They were among 50 migrants flown from Texas to Martha's Vineyard on flights arranged by the office of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. [...] The day after they signed the forms, the 50 migrants boarded private jets. Flight data shows they took off at 8 a.m. on Sept. 14, stopping in Crestview, Florida, and again in the Carolinas to refuel. They landed on Martha's Vineyard around 3 p.m. [...] One of the 50 migrants left Martha's Vineyard for the mainland while Self arranged later check-in dates for the other 49.
Claim: "Antifa was already inside the Capitol with floor plans dressed as Trump supporters" on Jan. 6, 2021, proving the attack “was 100% a setup." (Facebook posts, 2022-07-15)
Evidence (2022-07-15): The Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was not a "setup" by antifa activists who were "already inside the Capitol with floor plans dressed as Trump supporters." The viral Facebook post making that claim revived a debunked conspiracy theory. A University of Chicago research group that has examined 900 people charged to date has found no evidence of antifa involvement in the day's events. A video captured amid the attack does not show antifa; it shows a group of pro-Trump rioters, including some whose support for former President Donald Trump has been documented in charging documents, discussing the Capitol’s layout after breaching it.
Claim: "Antifa was already inside the Capitol with floor plans dressed as Trump supporters" on Jan. 6, 2021, proving the attack “was 100% a setup." (Facebook posts, 2022-07-15)
Evidence (2022-08-09): The claim: A video shows antifa inside the Capitol building with floor plans and dressed as Trump supporters on Jan. 6, proving the attack was a setup [...] Based on our research, we rate FALSE the claim that a video shows antifa inside the Capitol building with floor plans and dressed as Trump supporters on Jan. 6, proving the attack was a setup. Experts said antifa was not involved in the Jan. 6 attack, and all evidence indicates that a pro-Trump mob was responsible for breaking into the Capitol building. Some of the rioters in the video are well-known Trump supporters. In addition, the footage does not prove that the attack was a setup. It shows events that occurred when the attack was underway.
Claim: "Antifa was already inside the Capitol with floor plans dressed as Trump supporters" on Jan. 6, 2021, proving the attack “was 100% a setup." (Facebook posts, 2022-07-15)
Evidence (2022-06-10): The primetime hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was carried across broadcast and cable networks, but not on Fox News. [...] Fox News host Tucker Carlson didn’t just ignore the first primetime House hearing dedicated to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. He spent the show rehashing many of the same falsehoods about the attack he has promoted for months. [...] PolitiFact, "Tucker Carlson’s conspiracy theory about FBI and Jan. 6 continues to be wrong," Nov. 4, 2021
Claim: "Antifa was already inside the Capitol with floor plans dressed as Trump supporters" on Jan. 6, 2021, proving the attack “was 100% a setup." (Facebook posts, 2022-07-15)
Evidence (2023-03-08): On Jan. 6, 2021, supporters of outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump violently converged on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. in support of Trump's false claims that the November 2020 presidential election was beset by massive scale voter fraud that led to his loss. [...] Some right wing figures pointed to John Sullivan, an accused agent provocateur who filmed the death of Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran and Trump supporter who was shot by police when she tried to break through a barricaded door as rioters broke into the building. Sullivan was arrested in Utah on Jan. 14, 2021, on charges related to the riot. [...] The FBI said during a Jan. 8, 2021, news conference that there was "no indication" that anyone from the antifa movement was involved in the attack. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican who has been an outspoken Trump supporter, bluntly rejected the claim that the riot was instigated by left wing activists, stating, "Some say the riots were caused by antifa. There is absolutely no evidence of that. And conservatives should be the first to say so."
Claim: "Antifa was already inside the Capitol with floor plans dressed as Trump supporters" on Jan. 6, 2021, proving the attack “was 100% a setup." (Facebook posts, 2022-07-15)
Evidence (2021-01-07): "Evidence growing that fascist ANTIFA orchestrated Capitol attack with clever mob control tactics," Brooks, an Alabama Republican, tweeted Thursday morning. [...] "(S)ome of the people who breached the Capitol today were not Trump supporters," Gaetz said. "They were masquerading as Trump supporters and, in fact, were members of the violent terrorist group antifa." [...] The FBI told reporters Friday there’s "no indication" that Antifa disguised themselves as Trump supporters to join the ranks of the mob.
Claim: "Antifa was already inside the Capitol with floor plans dressed as Trump supporters" on Jan. 6, 2021, proving the attack “was 100% a setup." (Facebook posts, 2022-07-15)
Evidence (2022-01-18): There remains no evidence to support the conspiracy theory, promoted most prominently by Fox News host Tucker Carlson, that the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was actually a false flag event orchestrated by the FBI to entrap Trump supporters. [...] The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol dealt a fact-based blow to efforts to rebrand the insurrection as a false flag orchestrated by the FBI. [...] The case that Epps was working for the FBI hinged on videos from Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021, that show him encouraging people to enter the Capitol, including one clip in which the crowd responds with chants of "Fed! Fed! Fed!"
Claim: "Antifa was already inside the Capitol with floor plans dressed as Trump supporters" on Jan. 6, 2021, proving the attack “was 100% a setup." (Facebook posts, 2022-07-15)
Evidence (2021-02-27): Nearly a dozen Trump supporters charged in connection with the US Capitol insurrection have said that Antifa and other left-wing groups weren’t involved in the attack, debunking a false-flag conspiracy theory that is gaining popularity in the pro-Trump orbit. [...] Many of the alleged rioters facing charges also embraced this conspiracy. But according to a CNN review of court documents, nearly a dozen defendants have explicitly pushed back, saying that they and other Trump supporters deserve the credit for storming the Capitol – not Antifa. [...] At least one speaker at CPAC this week promoted the lie, though he admitted that some Trump supporters participated in the Capitol assault. Conservative radio host Wayne Dupree said, "Antifa was there, BLM was there, MAGA people were there, everybody was there."
Claim: "Antifa was already inside the Capitol with floor plans dressed as Trump supporters" on Jan. 6, 2021, proving the attack “was 100% a setup." (Facebook posts, 2022-07-15)
Evidence (2021-01-07): On Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress met to officially count and certify Biden's electoral victory, Trump told a crowd of his supporters to walk to the U.S. Capitol. In the hours before people stormed the building, Trump supporters were urging violence on social media. As violence erupted in the Capitol, photographs and videos showing Trump supporters wearing Trump merchandise and waving Trump flags were widely circulated on social media. [...] Some claimed, for instance, that a man in a Viking helmet who stormed the Capitol had previously attended a Black Lives Matter rally. While photographs truly show this person at both events, this person is not a member of antifa. This person has been identified as Jake Angeli, a Trump supporter who is sometimes referred to as the "QAnon Shaman." [...] The other big piece of "evidence" used to support the claim that antifa had spurred on the violence in D.C. came from another photograph of a Trump supporter in the U.S. Capitol. In that case, social media users claimed that a tattoo on this person's hand proved he was antifa.
Claim: "Antifa was already inside the Capitol with floor plans dressed as Trump supporters" on Jan. 6, 2021, proving the attack “was 100% a setup." (Facebook posts, 2022-07-15)
Evidence (2021-12-16): A review of their on-air and social media comments show that on Jan. 6, Ingraham, Hannity and Kilmeade broadly condemned the attack while at the same time questioning whether those who stormed the Capitol were Trump supporters. Ingraham and Hannity also minimized the event, likened it to protests from the summer of 2020, and entertained the conspiracy theory that antifa instigated it. Guests on Ingraham’s show also posited that antifa may have been involved. [...] Media Matters for America, "Sean Hannity speculates "groups like antifa" are the ones storming the US Capitol," Jan. 6, 2021 [...] PolitiFact, "The 2021 Lie of the Year: Lies about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and its significance," Dec. 14, 2021
Claim: "Antifa was already inside the Capitol with floor plans dressed as Trump supporters" on Jan. 6, 2021, proving the attack “was 100% a setup." (Facebook posts, 2022-07-15)
Evidence (2023-01-06): On Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress convened to count the electoral college votes and certify Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, a mob of pro-Trump rioters sought to overturn the results by storming the U.S. Capitol.
Claim: "Antifa was already inside the Capitol with floor plans dressed as Trump supporters" on Jan. 6, 2021, proving the attack “was 100% a setup." (Facebook posts, 2022-07-15)
Evidence (2022-01-19): There is no evidence to support the conspiracy theory that the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was a false flag by antifa. [...] Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier on Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP) [...] PolitiFact, "There’s no proof antifa stormed the Capitol. The rumor spread quickly anyway," Jan. 7, 2021
Claim: "Antifa was already inside the Capitol with floor plans dressed as Trump supporters" on Jan. 6, 2021, proving the attack “was 100% a setup." (Facebook posts, 2022-07-15)
Evidence (2023-12-23): WASHINGTON — In nearly three years since a mob of Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in an effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election, far-right figures have made a claim that flies in the face of reality: That the Jan. 6 attack was actually driven by far-left antifa activists dressed up like Trump supporters, or by federal agents dressed up like Trump supporters, or by some combination thereof. [...] Judges have regularly dealt with Jan. 6 defendants who are still lost in online conspiracy theories. Many of those defendants, like former Police Chief Alan Hostetter, have latched onto the case of John Sullivan, an "anti-establishment" activist who stormed the Capitol and was caught on tape bragging that he'd "make those Trump supporters f--- s--- up." Hostetter has said he believes that Jan. 6 was a setup from the beginning and brought up the Sullivan case in court, while representing himself. But he had trouble explaining how the handling of Sullivan's case — Sullivan was arrested, convicted on all charges after a trial last month and ordered detained until his sentencing — was part of some broad scheme by the "deep state."
Claim: "Antifa was already inside the Capitol with floor plans dressed as Trump supporters" on Jan. 6, 2021, proving the attack “was 100% a setup." (Facebook posts, 2022-07-15)
Evidence (2022-01-04): Recently released footage of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack shows the violent scene in the Lower West Terrace tunnel as Trump supporters tried to force their way past police lines. [...] U.S. Department of Justice, "One Year Since the Jan. 6 Attack on the Capitol," Dec. 30, 2021 [...] PolitiFact, "The 2021 Lie of the Year: Lies about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and its significance," Dec. 15, 2021
Claim: "Antifa was already inside the Capitol with floor plans dressed as Trump supporters" on Jan. 6, 2021, proving the attack “was 100% a setup." (Facebook posts, 2022-07-15)
Evidence (2021-05-24): Following a pro-Trump mob storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, viral posts spread a groundless theory that members of "antifa" — not supporters of President Donald Trump — were actually behind the riot. [...] U.S. Capitol Police announced that 14 people were arrested on Jan. 6, most for unlawful entry. That’s in addition to the 69 individuals arrested by the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, 41 of which were on Capitol grounds (but not all of those were inside), a spokesman told us. The latter department’s acting chief, Robert J. Contee III, said during a Jan. 7 press conference that he could not yet identify any particular groups involved. Federal authorities are also investigating. The FBI’s assistant director in charge of the FBI Washington field office, Steven D’Antuono, said in a Jan. 8 call with reporters that there was currently "no indication" that antifa activists had disguised themselves as Trump supporters and carried out the Capitol riot. [...] One Facebook post shared by more than 4,000 users claimed, "FYI These are NOT Trump supporters….Antifa THUGS." The post included a photo of the rioters inside the Capitol with an arrow pointing to a man wearing a headpiece with fur and horns.
Claim: "Antifa was already inside the Capitol with floor plans dressed as Trump supporters" on Jan. 6, 2021, proving the attack “was 100% a setup." (Facebook posts, 2022-07-15)
Evidence (2022-07-15): No, video of rioters discussing Capitol ‘floor plan’ doesn’t prove Jan. 6 was antifa setup [...] The Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was not a "setup" by antifa activists who were "already inside the Capitol with floor plans dressed as Trump supporters." The viral Facebook post making that claim revived a debunked conspiracy theory. [...] More than a year and a half later, those claims continue to spread online — despite having been thoroughly debunked. "Antifa was already inside the Capitol with floor plans dressed as Trump supporters," said the text over a viral Facebook post shared July 15. "This was 100% a setup."
Claim: "Antifa was already inside the Capitol with floor plans dressed as Trump supporters" on Jan. 6, 2021, proving the attack “was 100% a setup." (Facebook posts, 2022-07-15)
Evidence (2021-01-25): It seems unlikely that what happened on January 6th will turn anyone who inhabits such an ecosystem against Trump. On the contrary, there are already indications that the mayhem at the Capitol will further isolate and galvanize many right-wingers. The morning after the siege, an alternative narrative, pushed by Jones and other conspiracists, went viral on Parler: the assault on the Capitol had actually been instigated by Antifa agitators impersonating Trump supporters. Mo Brooks, an Alabama congressman who led the House effort to contest the certification of the Electoral College votes, tweeted, "Evidence growing that fascist ANTIFA orchestrated Capitol attack with clever mob control tactics." (Brooks had warmed up the crowd for Trump on January 6th, with a speech whose bellicosity far surpassed the President’s. "Today is the day American patriots start takin’ down names and kickin’ ass!" he’d hollered.) Most of the "evidence" of Antifa involvement seems to be photographs of rioters clad in black. Never mind that, in early January, Tarrio, the Proud Boys chairman, wrote on Parler, "We might dress in all BLACK for the occasion."
Claim: "Antifa was already inside the Capitol with floor plans dressed as Trump supporters" on Jan. 6, 2021, proving the attack “was 100% a setup." (Facebook posts, 2022-07-15)
Evidence (2024-01-08): And in 2006, he fulfilled a lifelong dream and became a police officer at the U.S. Capitol. Three years ago, on Jan. 6, 2021, Sgt. Gonell's American dream became a nightmare. Rioters spurred on by former President Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election. [...] BROOKS: Yeah, I understand. Speaking of Republican officials who might not have your back, here's some tape. I want to play a cut from Republican Congressman Clay Higgins of Louisiana from November 2023, who falsely suggested that January 6th was orchestrated by the FBI, who he claimed sent buses of agents disguised as Trump supporters. So here's an exchange between FBI Director Christopher Wray and Congressman Higgins. You're going to hear FBI Director Wray speaking first. CHRISTOPHER WRAY: You are asking whether the violence at the Capitol on January 6th was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources and/or agents, the answer is emphatically not.