The chief of the U.S. Capitol Police sent an internal email Monday to his officers with a viciously sharp response to Tucker Carlson’s Monday evening show, blasting his “offensive and misleading” commentary as “outrageous and false.”
In Monday’s episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight, the top-rated Fox News host presented a selection of video clips from the more than 40,000 hours of surveillance footage from the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol that Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) exclusively allowed him to review.
Carlson claimed that the rioters were “right” to believe that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump, “facts” that “no honest person can deny.”
(In fact, many, many honest people have denied the election was stolen, including state and federal judges in over 60 lawsuits, many of whom were appointed by Republican governors and presidents — some even by Trump himself — and dozens of former Trump administration officials and advisers in their testimony under oath before the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6.)
“The footage does not show an insurrection or a riot in progress,” Carlson claimed, describing the rioters as “sightseers” and telling his audience of millions that “the Democratic Party and its allies in the media” had “prevented” them from seeing the video clips he was showing them so they could “lie about what happened.”
(Again, Carlson is lying. Multiple media organizations have requested access to the footage and the video showing nonviolent moments on Jan. 6 does not erase the heavily-viewed clips showing violence or the hours of sworn testimony from police officers who were brutally attacked that day.)
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