20 Feb 2023 6:26 pm
Why did he hand over that footage to someone whose own text messages show him to be a liar who tried to have a FOX News reporter fired because she had the audacity to fact check one of 45's Tweets?House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has gifted exclusive access to 41,000 hours of surveillance footage from the January 6 attack on the Capitol to Fox’s Tucker Carlson.
According to Axios, Carlson’s producers visited Capitol Hill last week to begin their endeavor of poring over the tapes. Footage is said to begin hitting the airwaves on Carlson’s shows in the coming weeks.
McCarthy’s treat to the extremist TV host comes as part of the numerous concessions McCarthy made to a select group of far-right Republicans in exchange for their speakership votes.
He pledged to make all the security footage from January 6 public, which apparently means tying it all up in a bow for Carlson to exclusively and selectively present on his shows to construct conspiracy theories with.
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No doubt that Tuckem's people are slicing and dicing that footage right now to try and invent some kind of a wacky conspiracy theory about that day.
The gaslighting won't work.
We all saw what we saw on January 6th, 2021.