House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage from the Jan. 6 insurrection that he wants to turn over to a journalist.
Who is the journalist that McCarthy is entrusting with this footage from one of the country’s most consequential, disturbing and divisive days since the Civil War?
Tucker Carlson.
Axios’ Mike Allen, who broke the story about McCarthy turning over this massive trove of footage, points out that “Carlson has repeatedly questioned official accounts of 1/6, downplaying the insurrection as ‘vandalism.’” Carlson also said on his show last year that what happened on Jan. 6 was an “outbreak of mob violence, a forgettably minor outbreak by recent standards” and that it was “not even close to an insurrection.”
That’s the guy who is now in charge of combing through all that video and explaining it. No doubt, he will spend the upcoming weeks playing carefully chosen clips on his various platforms, including his prime-time Fox News show, and putting his spin on it all. Will he suggest that we can’t believe what our eyes and ears told us about that day?
Carlson told Allen, “(T)here was never any legitimate reason for this footage to remain secret. If there was ever a question that’s in the public’s interest to know, it’s what actually happened on Jan. 6. By definition, this video will reveal it. It’s impossible for me to understand why any honest person would be bothered by that.”
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