MSNBC host and former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki torpedoed a MAGA conspiracy theory floated by Joe Rogan recently about the White supremacist Patriot Front that absurdly claims they’re actually the FBI.
Rogan and other MAGA fans have long promoted the idea that the Patriot Front is an FBI operation designed to exaggerate the threat of White nationalist groups — and Rogan promoted it as recently as March.
On Tuesday’s edition of MSNBC’s The Briefing with Jen Psaki, Psaki played a clip of Rogan claiming that the group disbanded as soon as Trump FBI Director Kash Patel took over — then promptly offered pretty convincing evidence to the contrary:
JOE ROGAN: A video of Patriot Front and me and Matt Taibbi. I go. “They’re feds!”.It’s me yelling. “Where’s the fat people?”.They’re all they’re all wearing the same uniform One guy’s got a f***ing drum. Get the f*** out of here! These are feds! The day after Kash Patel gets in, they disband.JEN PSAKI: So that was Joe Rogan, of course, back in March, pushing the conspiracy theory that the White nationalist group Patriot Front was actually a fake FBI front.Now you probably know Patriot Front because, as Joe Rogan points out, whenever they host one of their hate rallies, they do so in uniform. You can see them on the screen there.Ever since the
groups splitered off from the white nationalists group that planned the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia back in 2017, Patriot Front has traveled all around the country spewing racist and anti-Semitic hate.But rather than just condemn the group, right-wing conspiracy theorists and Trump allies have insisted that Patriot Front is actually just the FBI trying to make the White nationalism seem like a bigger threat than it actually is.It’s not just Joe Rogan pushing that idea. Elon Musk has pushed the theory, as have multiple members of Congress.The core of the theory goes like this. The reason this group wore uniforms in mass was to hide the fact that they were secretly FBI agents, obviously.And that once Kash Patel was in charge of the FBI, he would simply fire the agents involved and the group would cease to exist. That’s how it goes.Well, Mr. Patel was sworn into office back in February, and this was the local news in Kansas City this past weekend.NEWS ANCHOR: Kansas City, Missouri residents are expressing alarm after a hate group marched in downtown Kansas City yesterday. We got footage of that group while they were at the Liberty Memorial before they began their march downtown.The group was in uniform, wearing tan hats, white masks covering their faces, Navy blue shirts, tan pants, and boots. Some were carrying shields.The flags they carried included upside down American flags, the Confederateflag, and a flag that identifies the group as the Patriot Front.JEN PSAKI: Hmm, seems very much like Patriot Front still exists!I wonder how FBI Director Kash Patel will explain that one. See, FBI Director Patel and his number two, Dan Bongino, have a problem.Both of them have spent years promoting conspiracy theories surrounding the FBI, but now they are actually in charge of the FBI. Now they are the dogs that caught the car.
Watch above via MSNBC’s The Briefing with Jen Psaki.