Tucker Carlson Doubles Down on Jan. 6 Falsehoods Hours After Even Republicans Condemned Them (Video)
08.03.2023 - 09:37
/ thewrap.com
multiple false claimss related to the Jan. 6 attacks, and also deployed selectively edited footage to misrepresent them as a peaceful protest. And yes, Carlson also repeated the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump.This resulted in widespread criticism even from fellow Republicans, among them Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Naturally, Carlson lashed out at those Republicans on Tuesday night’s episode — read more about that here — but he also jumped right back into the Jan. 6 falsehoods.“We haven’t answered every question about what actually happened on Jan. 6, far from it.
There’s so many mysteries from that day,” he said at one point on Tuesday, video of which you can see at the top of the page (courtesy of @acyn on Twitter).“One thing we know for certain is that the story they told you about it, a pat tale of ‘good versus evil,’ an ‘insurrection’ with no guns that took place at the U.S. Capitol, those were lies and those were lies told for a very specific purpose. Of course, the people in power wanted more power, and they got it on the basis of those lies.”Speaking of ‘of course,’ of course the actual lies came here via Carlson.
Setting aside the fact that Donald Trump, as president on Jan. 6, was by definition the most powerful person in the country, Carlson’s claim that no weapons were present is just false.Video evidence, court documents and eyewitness testimony all prove that dozens of people who participated in the attack were armed with guns, knives and other weapons. Which, among other things, were used to assault law enforcement officers on the scene.Later in the episode, Carlson said, “In free countries, governments do not lie about protests as a pretext to gain more power for
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