Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has sought to promote a conspiracy theory over the Jan 6 riots and suggested federal agents “encouraged people to go in” to the US Capitol.

       In a speech to young conservatives in Phoenix, Arizona, the representative from Georgia, said she had been in the Capitol at the time, as she was among the more than 150 Republicans who were trying to stop Joe Biden being certified as president.

       She said people had travelled to Washington DC to assemble to about election integrity, “because they felt their election was stolen, they felt their votes were stolen. And it was so important to them to show up and use their First Amendment rights to protests”.

       “As a matter of fact, when they heard the speech that President Trump gave, and President Trump called them to peacefully...to walk in peace and love and go to the Capitol to make their voices heard, there was something set up there,” she said.

       Citing as evidence an article published this summer on the website Revolver News, she said that as they walked to the Capitol after Mr Trump had completed his speech, “there were people there urging them to go in because, when many of them got there after President Trump finished speaking, there was something are already underway”.

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       She added: “The Democrats call it an insurrection, but I think we can start calling it a Fed-surrection.”

       The congresswoman claimed it was “really interesting” that congressional committee investigating the storming of the US Capitol, an incident that left five people dead, including a police officer, were “not working on that”.

       “No, they’re more interested in targeting Republicans and President Trump. It’s the same playbook we saw with Russia collusion. It’s the exact same playbook,” she said.

       The remarks from the congresswoman, who often goes by the initials MTG, is one of many conservatives who have claimed that it was not supporters of Mr Trump who led the storming of the Capitol, but rather left wing “antifa” activists or else federal agents.

       Speaking at the same event on Saturday night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed many of the more than 700 people who have been charged over the incident did little more than “walk down the hall”.

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       Ms Greene said on Sunday told the Turning Point USA event, she did not like what happened that day as she was in the building. She said many of those in jail “did riot”.

       She added: “I will not defend what they did at the Capitol that day, because I didn’t like it. I was in there when it happened.”

       Yet, she claimed people were being held in solitary confinement and refused bail. She said the FBI was “hunting” people down and raiding their homes.

       The New York Times reported earlier this year that at least one of the so-called Proud Boys” who took part in the protest was an FBI informant, though federal authorities have denied they had foreknowledge of what was going to happen.

       Meanwhile, the senior Republican member congress on the House of Representatives committee investigating the attack, Liz Cheney, has repeatedly dismissed claims that a false flag operation took place.

       “It’s the same kind of thing that you hear from people who say that 9/11 was an inside job, for example. It’s un-American to be spreading those kinds of lies, and they are lies,” the Wyoming congresswoman said on Fox News earlier this year.

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       “An obligation that we share, Democrats and Republicans together, to make sure that we understand every single piece of the facts about what happened that day and to make sure that people who did it are held accountable.”

       She added: “And to call it a false flag operation, to spread those kinds of lies, is really dangerous.”