An FBI informant, James Knowles, infiltrated the Kansas City Proud Boy Group for over a year and a half before the January 6th event and kept the FBI informed on the group's activity. Knowles reported that the Proud Boys did not break any barriers at the Capitol, the siege was not organized, and there were no overt threats of violence. The KC Proud Boys entered the Capitol to help law enforcement and encourage Trump supporters to leave. But KC Proud Boys are facing decades in prison on conspiracy and other charges, despite Knowles' reports of their innocence.

The article states that the January 6 Select Committee have literally withheld exculpatory evidence from the public that exonerates the group so that they can have crimes to link Trump to "by association" to keep him or other establishment outsiders from office.