The White House sharply criticized Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s misleading coverage of the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol, after the prime-time host aired selectively edited security footage from that day and called it mostly a peaceful event.
Later, at the daily White House briefing, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about Carlson, and she highlighted Fox News’s legal arguments that Carlson is not a credible source of information.“You literally can’t believe the ‘facts’ Tucker Carlson tells you,” Jean-Pierre said. “So say Fox’s lawyers.”
Carlson, who has played down the deadly violence that occurred that day and claimed it was a “false flag” operation, began airing a fraction of the 41,000 hours of Jan. 6 security footage from the Capitol, to which he was given exclusive access by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy . Other news organizations, including The Washington Post, have pressed for access to the footage.
On his shows Monday and Tuesday, Carlson claimed that the footage proves that the Trump supporters who entered the Capitol that day were mostly peaceful, with large numbers of them no more than tourists who revered their surroundings.
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