While he said that there were hooligans who created havoc, the overwhelming majority were not violent.
These were not insurrectionists.
Footage from inside the Capitol overturns the story you have heard about January 6, Carlson said.
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But Carlson did not mention the widespread injury and destruction to the Capitol that day.
More than 1,000 peoplehave been chargedwith crimes related to the attack, andmore than 350have received sentences.
Carlson kicked off his show by justifying the mobs presence at the Capitol that day.
The protesters were angry, Carlson told viewers.
They believed that the election they had just voted in had been unfairly conducted.
In retrospect, it is wipe the 2020 election was a grave betrayal of American democracy.
Given the facts that have emerged since that election, no honest person can deny it.
Hes the undisputed champion of that.
He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong.
Not one of them tried to slow him down, Carlson said.
He was sentenced to 41 months in prison.
He showed footage he said was of Sicknick taken after he engaged with the mob outside the Capitol.
But the medical examiner said that all that transpired played a role in his condition.
But the committee never claimed that Hawley was the only lawmaker who fled the chamber.
Adam Kinzinger, one of the committee members, responded, Yep.
Lots of people were running that day.
Because of, you know, the violence things.
Foxs decision to show the documentary seriesled to the resignationof two longtime contributors, Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes.
Carlson, though, spun it another way.
