Tucker Carlson calls GOP ‘sociopaths’ as White House says Jan 6 clips ‘not credible’

There was little new in what he presented on Tuesday evening as Andrew Feinberg reports.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Tuesday that he did not see Tucker Carlson’s show where he broadcast cherry-picked video footage of the January 6 riot on Fox News Monday evening.

The Republican Speaker of the House gave the footage to the right-wing cable news host who has frequently downplayed the events of 6 January 2021 when supporters of former president Donald Trump raided the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

Eric Garcia filed this report from Capitol Hill.

Louis Chilton reports on what The View host said.

Host Tucker Carlson claimed that the footage showing Mr. Hawley fleeing rioters during the insurrection on January 6 was “propaganda” because other senators also fled the mob.

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One of Fox News’s primetime stars has embarked on a crusade to change the public perception of the facts around the January 6 attack on Congress, and on Monday used a clip of the much-mocked “QAnon Shaman”, Jacob Chansley, to do it.

Tucker Carlson’s latest effort to spread disinformation is the result of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s decision to supply him with access to hours upon hours of surveillance footage from the day of the attack, while not allowing other journalists (even at his own network) the same access ; as a result, Carlson’s producers have been able to present selective clips of the attack and cut them together in the hopes of making Americans forget about the scenes of shocking violence already released by the January 6 committee last year.

John Bowden reports from Washington, DC.

Despite Dominion court documents that reveal he “hates” the former president “passionately”, Tucker Carlson reminded his viewers on Wednesday that Mr Trump was running for the White House again “unless they put him in prison, which is of course the plan.”

And he added: He is saying things that are really interesting, not rehashes at all. In fact, he has come out with a bunch of proposals that are so interesting we thought we would bring them to you,” he said on his Fox News show.

During a broadcast on Wednesday, Tucker Carlson blasted his bipartisan critics in Congress as “sociopaths” and accused Attorney General Merrick Garland of lying about the number of police officers killed during the January 6 attack on the Capitol.

It’s the latest headline-grabbing moment after the Fox News host caused a controversy throughout the week by airing selectively chosen clips to claim the riots at the Capitol in 2021 weren’t violent.

“The sociopaths turned out to be both Democrats and Republicans,” Mr Carlson said, hammering GOP leaders like senators Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham as “weak men” for their criticisms of the January 6 video segments.

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“Antifa descended on Washington, DC to force the sitting president out of office,” claimed Carlson on Wednesday night.

Days after court filings revealed Fox News personalities and executives privately rejecting bogus claims surrounding the 2020 presidential election, one of the network’s most-watched stars cast about its legitimacy and appeared to defend hundreds of rioters who breached the halls of Congress.

In a segment on March 6 that sought to downplay the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, Tucker Carlson said rioters were “right” to believe that the election was “unfairly conducted”.