By MELISSA GOLDIN

President Donald Trump bolstered a years-old conspiracy theory over the weekend, claiming that 50 pages of alleged FBI documents recently made public prove that 274 FBI agents at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, were there to incite the attack.

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The documents first appeared in an article published Thursday by the conservative site Just The News, which did not blame the Jan. 6 insurrection on federal agents as Trump did. It focused instead on complaints made in an “after-action report” by FBI personnel, who were critical about the bureau’s response that day.

The information — which The Associated Press was not able to verify as authentic — does not support Trump’s claim. It says that FBI agents responded to the U.S. Capitol attack, not that those agents had any role in making it happen.

Here’s a closer look at the facts.

TRUMP: “As it now turns out, FBI Agents were at, and in, the January 6th Protest, probably acting as Agitators and Insurrectionists, but certainly not as ‘Law Enforcement Officials.’”

THE FACTS: This is false. The alleged FBI documents to which Trump is referring state on page 46 that 274 agents from the FBI’s Washington Field Office “responded to” to the U.S. Capitol and other nearby locations on Jan. 6. They do not contain any credible evidence to suggest that federal agents were acting as agitators or insurrectionists.

“This number includes agents that responded to the Capitol grounds as well as inside the Capitol, the pipe bombs, and the red truck that was believed to contain explosive devices as well as CDC/ADCs,” the documents read.

The mention of “pipe bombs” refers to the devices planted outside offices of the Democratic and Republican national committees in Washington on the eve of the attack, while “the red truck” refers to a pickup truck filled with weapons and Molotov cocktail components that was parked near the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

In addition to information about the agents and other FBI staff who were deployed in response to the Jan. 6 attack, the documents include extensive feedback from alleged bureau personnel about how the FBI responded to the day’s events. There are also suggestions from different operational divisions for future best practices, as well as notes on what went well.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment on Trump’s allegation. The FBI declined to comment.

Rioters determined to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden stormed the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, in a violent clash with police. Unsubstantiated conspiracy theories that federal agents played a role in instigating the attack became popular soon after and were advanced even by some Republicans in Congress. Many iterations have since been debunked.

A watchdog report published in December 2024 by the Justice Department inspector general’s office found that no undercover FBI employees were at the riot on Jan. 6 and that none of the bureau’s informants were authorized to participate. Informants, also known as confidential human sources, work with the FBI to provide information, but are not on the bureau’s payroll. Undercover agents are employed by the FBI.

It does state that “after the Capitol had been breached on Jan. 6 by the rioters, and in response to a request from the USCP, the FBI deployed several hundred Special Agents and employees to the U.S. Capitol and the surrounding area.” USCP refers to the U.S. Capitol Police.

According to the report, 26 informants were in Washington on Jan. 6 in connection with the day’s events. Of the total 26 informants, four entered the Capitol during the riot and an additional 13 entered a restricted area around the Capitol. But none were authorized to do so by the FBI, nor were they given permission to break other laws or encourage others to do the same. The remaining nine informants did not engage in any illegal activities.

It wasn’t clear prior to the report’s release how many FBI informants were in the crowd that day. Former FBI Director Christopher Wray, who resigned in January at the end of the Biden administration, refused to say during a congressional hearing in 2023 how many of the people who entered the Capitol and surrounding area on Jan. 6 were either FBI employees or people with whom the FBI had made contact. But Wray said the “notion that somehow the violence at the Capitol on January 6 was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources and agents is ludicrous.”

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By SARA CLINE and GEOFF MULVIHILL

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana is pursuing a criminal case against another out-of-state doctor accused of mailing abortion pills to a patient in the state, court documents filed this month revealed.

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A warrant for the arrest of a California doctor is a rare charge of violating one of the state abortion bans that has taken effect since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 and allowed enforcement.

It represents an additional front in a growing legal battle between liberal and conservative states over prescribing abortion medications via telehealth and mailing them to patients.

Pills are the most common way abortions are accessed in the U.S., and are a major reason that, despite the bans, abortion numbers rose last year, according to a report.

A Louisiana woman says she was forced to take abortion drugs

Louisiana said in a court case filed Sept. 19 that it had issued a warrant for a California-based doctor who it says provided pills to a Louisiana woman in 2023.

Both the woman, Rosalie Markezich, and the state attorney’s general, are seeking to be part of a lawsuit that seeks to order drug regulators to bar telehealth prescriptions to mifepristone, one of the two drugs usually used in combination for medication abortions.

In court filings, Markezich says her boyfriend at the time used her email address to order drugs from Dr. Remy Coeytaux, a California physician, and sent her $150, which she forwarded to Coeytaux. She said she had no other contact with the doctor.

She said she did not want to take the pills but felt forced to and said in the filing that “the trauma of my chemical abortion still haunts me” and that it would not have happened if telehealth prescriptions to the drug were off limits.

The accusation builds on a position taken by anti-abortion groups: That allowing abortion pills to be prescribed by phone or video call and filled by mail opens the door to women being coerced to take them.

“Rosalie is bravely representing many woman who are victimized by the illegal, immoral, and unethical conduct of these drug dealers,” Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said in a statement.

The doctor also faces a lawsuit in Texas

Murrill’s office did not immediately answer questions about what charges Coeytaux faces, or when the warrant was issued. But under the state’s ban on abortions at all stages of pregnancy, physicians convicted of providing abortion face up to 15 years in prison and $200,000 in fines.

Coeytaux is also the target of a lawsuit filed in July in federal court by a Texas man who says the doctor illegally provided his girlfriend with abortion pills.

Coeytaux did not immediately respond to emails or a phone message.

The combination of a Louisiana criminal case and a Texas civil case over abortion pills is also playing out surrounding a New York doctor, Margaret Carpenter. New York authorities are refusing to extradite Dr. Carpenter to Louisiana or to enforce for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton the $100,000 civil judgment against her.

In the Louisiana case, officials said a pregnant minor’s mother requested the abortion medication online and directed her daughter to take them. The mother was arrested, pleaded not guilty and was released on bond.

New York officials cite a law there that seeks to protect medical providers who prescribe abortion medications to patients in states with abortion bans — or where such prescriptions by telehealth violate the law.

New York and California are among the eight states that have shield laws with such provisions, according to a tally by the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights.

The legal and political fight over abortion pills is expanding

The legal filings that revealed the Louisiana charge against Coeytaux are part of an effort for Louisiana, along with Florida and Texas, to join a lawsuit filed last year by the Republican attorneys general for Idaho, Kansas and Missouri to roll back federal approvals for mifepristone.

This year, both Louisiana and Texas have adopted laws to target out-of-state providers of abortion pills.

The Louisiana law lets patients who receive abortions sue providers and others. The Texas law goes further and allows anyone to sue those who prescribe such pills in the state.

Both Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary have said they are conducting a full review of mifepristone’s safety and effectiveness.

Medication abortion has been available in the U.S. since 2000, when the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of mifepristone.

Mulvihill reported from Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

City Limits rounds up the latest housing and land use-related events, public hearings and affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.

A view of NYCHA’s Queensbridge Houses from Vernon Boulevard. The City Council will hold an oversight hearing Tuesday about surveillance at NYCHA campuses. (City Limits/Adi Talwar)

Welcome to City Limits’ NYC Housing Calendar, a weekly feature where we round up the latest housing and land use-related events and hearings, as well as upcoming affordable housing lotteries that are ending soon.

Know of an event we should include in next week’s calendar? Email us.

Upcoming Housing and Land Use-Related Events:

Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 9:30 a.m.: The Landmarks Preservation Commission will meet. More here.

Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 10 a.m.: The NYC Council’s Public Housing Committee will hold an oversight hearing on the use of surveillance at NYCHA campuses. More here.

Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 10 a.m.: The NYC Council’s Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Sitings and Dispositions will meet regarding land use applications for: Claremont House: 1640 Anthony Avenue, NYC Health and Hospitals/River Commons (1225 Gerard Avenue),  Ikos Senior Living, Kingsbridge Armory Redevelopment, Arverne East Amendment.

Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 6 p.m.: The Department of Housing, Preservation and Development will host an online workshop about the rights of tenants in rent regulated apartments. More here.

Friday, Oct. 3 at 1 p.m.: The NYC Council’s Committee on Civil and Human Rights will hold an oversight hearing on housing discrimination and inequity. More here.

Monday, Oct. 6 at 1 p.m.: The City Planning Commission will hold a public review sessions. More here.

NYC Affordable Housing Lotteries Ending Soon: The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) are closing lotteries on the following subsidized buildings over the next week.

558 Sackett Street Apartments, Brooklyn, for households earning between $37,612 – $227,500 (last day to apply is 9/29)

39-20 214th Place Apartment, Queens, for households earning between $87,018 – $227,500 (last day to apply is 9/29)

19 Rockwell Place Apartments, Brooklyn, for households earning between $75,669 – $227,500 (last day to apply is 10/1)

340 & 342 Melrose Street Apartments, Brooklyn, for households earning between $103,166 – $189,540 (last day to apply is 10/2)

37-18 Broadway Apartments, Queens, for households earning between $83,452 – $227,500 (last day to apply is 10/2)

962 Bushwick Avenue Apartments, Brooklyn, for households earning between $104,812 – $227,500 (last day to apply is 10/3)

1975 Madison Avenue Apartments, Manhattan, for households earning between $106,286 – $227,500 (last day to apply is 10/6)

Inwood Living, Manhattan, for households earning between $37,852 – $210,000 (last day to apply is 10/6)

2795 Fulton Street Apartments, Brooklyn, for households earning between $51,018 – $160,720 (last day to apply is 10/6)

972 Bushwick Avenue Apartments, Brooklyn, for households earning between $104,812 – $227,500 (last day to apply is 10/6)

600 Crown Street Apartments, Brooklyn, for households earning between $111,360 – $227,500 (last day to apply is 10/6)

Bryant Avenue Apartments, Bronx, for households earning between $111,360 – $189,540 (last day to apply is 10/6)

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A man attending a wedding event in a Maplewood park was shot and injured, allegedly by the best man, according to the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office.

The 36-year-old from St. Paul sustained a gunshot wound to each leg and was taken to the hospital for non-life threatening injuries, said Steve Linders, a sheriff’s office spokesman.

There were about 100 people at the wedding event at Keller Regional Park. An argument between the victim and the suspect — not during the wedding ceremony — preceded the shooting on Saturday about 7:10 p.m., Linders said.

The suspect left in a vehicle before Maplewood officers or deputies arrived. Sheriff’s office investigators were working to locate him as of Monday afternoon.

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