By Rebecca Beitsch
Staff Writer
The Hill
FBI Director Christopher Wray said that the bureau has no evidence that far-left violent extremists were involved in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
“We have not to date seen any evidence of anarchist violent extremists or people subscribed to antifa in connection with the sixth,” Wray told lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee, using a term to refer to the left-wing anti-fascism movement.
“That doesn’t mean we’re not looking, and we’ll continue to look, but at the moment we have not seen that.”
The idea that “antifa,” an umbrella term for far-left leaning groups, was responsible for the Jan. 6 Capitol breach has been floated repeatedly by former President Trump‘s allies.