Fox News star host Tucker Carlson is under fire from both Democratic and Republican lawmakers after airing selectively edited video excerpts from 41,000-hours of surveillance footage from the Capitol riot, handed to him by House speaker Kevin McCarthy, in an attempt to cast doubt on the established narrative.
Carlson had attempted to insist that the assault on the legislative complex on 6 January 2021 by Donald Trump supporters seeking to stop the certification of the 2020 election results – in which five people died, hundreds were injured and over which more than 1,000 people have since been charged – was a “peaceful protest” that has since been weaponised by Democrats as a means of persecuting the 45th president.
