Trump fans are using 'Scooby-Doo' theories to avoid blame for Jan. 6: MSNBC host

In the wake of special counsel Jack Smith filing a motion to block Trump from introducing conspiracy theories about the January 6 attack at his election conspiracy trial, MSNBC host Jason Johnson weighed in on the prevalence of these beliefs among the MAGA faithful with NBC reporter Ryan J. Reilly.

"It's always interesting to me, Ryan, that antigovernment conspiracy theorists think the government is terrible, incompetent, until it suits our conspiracy theory," said Johnson. "And then suddenly they're all geniuses able to do all they want them to do. I think this conspiracy is key. He, Smith talks about undercover agents. He says, 'We don't want defendants to introduce information about undercover actors, because that would lead to confusing mini-trials on collateral issues.' It may require the government introduce evidence to show the people whom the defendant alleges where undercover actors were actually his vehement supporters.'"

"Ryan, you have written about this," Johnson continued. "I find this to be one of the most critical elements of any prosecution about Trump on January 6th. How can we stop that from happening? How can you prove a negative? Trump supporters ... have long pushed this theory that it's all this Scooby-Doo conspiracy theory that if you pull off the mask it was Antifa, but if you pull off the other mask of the Trump supporter, that person is innocent. How do you stop that in court?"

"It's almost comical, but it does become a big distraction and a big time-waster," said Reilly. "There's a recent case I read about last week ... involving someone that people alleged was an Antifa supporter, who ended up a Trump supporter. It's happened time and time again."

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"One of the most hilarious examples to me is that there's an individual, to people on the very day of, to people who dressed in black and people were yelling in the crowd at that moment getting sucked into these conspiracy theories saying they're Antifa, they're Antifa," Reilly continued. "What was that based on? If you are wearing black or smashing windows, you're automatically assumed to be Antifa. There's not like a deep inquiry into the political ideology the individual smashing the windows at the time. It was like, oh, they have to be Antifa. And lo and behold, one of them was a guy who went around to Trump rallies, was one of the, quote-unquote, 'Front-row Joes' who went to Trump rallies because he went around the country, got in line, was one of the first people in line for a lot of Trump rallies. The other one was actually arrested more recently and he is also a keen Trump supporter. If you go back to his Facebook page in 2020, pro-Trump meme, anti-Biden name after anti-Biden meme, and the fact of course that he tried to storm the Capitol after Donald Trump said 'You have to fight like hell.'"

"It happens time and time again," added Reilly. "It was supposed to be this next mystery under the next door, but they just fail over and over again. At some point it kind of gets into the — a lot of people start to believe it. A lot of Trump supporters really believe that this was an undercover Antifa operation."

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