Tucker Carlson Bizarrely Suggests Capitol Insurrection Was Orchestrated by FBI
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Via: tessylo • 5 years ago • 32 commentsBy: Justin Baragona, The Daily Beast
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Tucker Carlson Bizarrely Suggests Capitol Insurrection Was Orchestrated by FBI
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Taking his Jan. 6 denialism to another level on Tuesday night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested the Capitol insurrection was a false flag orchestrated by the FBI in an effort to “suppress political dissent.”
Almost since the moment that former President Donald Trump incited thousands of MAGA supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol in order to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s election victory, Carlson has downplayed the violent riots, repeatedly insisting there was “no insurrection” and that it was nothing more than a “political protest that got out of hand.”
At the same time, the far-right Fox News star has rallied to the defense of the Capitol rioters, portraying them as largely peaceful protesters while raging against federal prosecutors for the hundreds of criminal charges filed in the wake of the insurrection. With more rioters still facing potential indictments, many have taken to cooperating with the feds to avoid or lessen jail time.
And according to Carlson, the reason why the government has “thrown the book” at some rioters and not others is because of a deep-state plot to control the political narrative.
After invoking Russian President Vladimir Putin’s latest whataboutism argument about the Capitol riots , which featured Putin referencing Capitol rioter Ashli Babbit’s death to deflect answering a question about jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, Carlson declared that Putin raised “fair questions.”
“Who did shoot Ashli Babbitt and why don’t we know?” Carlson added. “Are anonymous federal agents now allowed to kill unarmed women who protest the regime? That’s okay now? No, it’s not okay.”
Carlson went on to claim that the government is “hiding the identity of many law enforcement officers present at the Capitol on January 6, not just the one that killed” Babbit, stating that the government’s own court filings reveal that officers violently took part in the riot.
“We know that because without fail, the government has thrown the book at most people who were present in the Capitol on January 6,” he exclaimed. “There was a nationwide dragnet to find them. Many of them are still in solitary confinement tonight.”
“But strangely, some of the key people who participated on January 6 have not been charged,” he continued. “Look at the documents, the government calls those people unindicted coconspirators. What does that mean? Well, it means that potentially every single case they were FBI operatives. Really? In the Capitol on January 6?”
Using the indictment of Oath Keeper Thomas Caldwell as an example, Carlson noted that the documents show two additional people listed who haven’t been charged yet but were organizers of the riot.
“The government knows who they are, but they have not charged them. Why is that? You know why,” Carlson said with a dramatic nod. “They were all certainly working for the FBI. So FBI operatives were organizing the attack on the Capitol, on Jan. 6, according to government documents!”
Carlson would then go on to also claim that the extremist plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was an FBI plot, insisting that the government was using the same post-9/11 tactics this time around.
“If you empower the government to violate civil liberties in pursuit of a foreign terror organization, it’s just a matter of time before ambitious politicians use those same mechanisms to suppress political dissent,” he grumbled. “And that is what we are seeing now.”
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Several levels of law enforcement, including the FBI, had prior intelligence and knowledge that peaceful demonstrations were planned....and did nothing to prepare..
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And that should be investigated with a bipartisan committee with the full weight of the US government behind it.... Right?
To what end? The perps are being processed and prosecuted
All the perps? If officials in law enforcement were party to Jan. 6th, current investigations are not looking there. Why were GOP reps giving unauthorized tours to members of the Jan. 6th insurrectionists? Shouldn't that be investigated?
Why are you afraid to investigate all that were involved?
Really didn't need to, although I did, read beyond that to know where this was headed.
Then why are you commenting on a seed you didn't even read?
Of course he is, I was just hoping that he would actually admit to it
You seemed to have missed this in my post.........
"Really didn't need to, although I did, read beyond that"
oops...you're right I did miss that. Mea Culpa
The only regime she could have been protesting is the existence of the United States Congress.
That's allowed by Bill of Rights. And someone representing that Congress shot this non-threatening unarmed woman in cold blood
Mob rule is not in the Bill of Rights, nor is the ability to conduct extrajudicial killings, IE hanging Pence and Pelosi. Some argue that the 2nd Amendment allows for the violent over throw of the Government. That may or may not be the case however, should your insurrection fail then you have to face the consequences of the Government you tried to overthrow. That's just common sense.
So Donald Trump is an FBI plant?
Some body give Lil Tucker his blankie and binky...it's time for his nap