Tucker Carlson said the Jan. 6 Capitol riots were the second-biggest scam of his lifetime on Tuesday.
In an interview with a trespasser who was at the insurrection on 6 January 2021, Carlson said: ‘Jan. 6 is, I think, probably second to only the 2020 election as the biggest scam in my lifetime.’
He said: ‘You know it is because they become completely hysterical when confronted with any facts that deviate from their lies.’
Carlson last Monday was given exclusive access to 40,000 hours of Capitol security building footage from the riot, which he used to downplay the violence.
Tucker Carlson (C) speaks with Daniel Goodwyn (L) and his lawyer (R) on Tuesday’s show
Texas Proud Boy Daniel Goodwyn is seen inside the US Capitol Building on 6 January 2021
In the interview, Carlson asks Proud Boy Daniel Goodwyn what people can do for ‘political prisoners’.
Goodwyn pleaded guilty last month to trespassing in 2021 and will face a sentencing hearing in May.
In the interview, he calls for House of Representatives speaker Kevin McCarthy to release all the footage of the insurrection to the public.
On Sunday 12 March, McCarthy said the tapes would be ‘slowly’ rolled out to other networks – following the exclusive access granted to FOX.
Goodwyn talks of ‘the truth, which is going on… which is being held back by the gatekeeping media that, for example, four people died that day and they were all Trump supporters.
He says, referring to Carlson: ‘Of course, you have revealed that Sicknick died the following day.’
Police officer Brian Sicknick was reported to have sustained injuries while ‘physically engaging with protestors.’
A medical examiner reported after the insurrection that Sicknick had died from ‘acute brainstem and cerebellar infarcts due to acute basilar artery thrombosis’ – a form of stroke.
He continued: ‘There was a lot of police violence that day and that needs to be investigated.’
Carlson replied: ‘January 6 is, I think, probably second only to the 2020 election as the biggest scam in my lifetime.’
It emerged recently that the FOX News host told his producer he ‘hated Trump passionately’, according to files unsealed by a judge as part of the Dominion Voting Systems defamation suit.
Dominion is suing Carlson’s network, Fox News, in a $1.6 billion case, claiming that the media company defamed the voting firm by questioning their technology and methods. Fox is fiercely contesting the allegations.
The suit claims Carlson texted Alex Pfeiffer on 4 January 2021 to say he was looking forward to a post-Trump era.
‘We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait,’ he allegedly said, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit brought by Dominion Voter Systems alleges that Fox News promoted former president Donald Trump’s false claims that its equipment was used to rig the 2020 election.
Fox News has said it was ‘proud of our 2020 election coverage, which stands in the highest tradition of American journalism’.
They are contesting Dominion’s lawsuit, saying it is only to create publicity for their voting machines.
Dominion argues that the First Amendment does not allow media outlets to broadcast conspiracy theories they know are false.
Members of the Oath Keepers extremist group stand on the East Front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington
Rioters supporting President Donald Trump, storm the Capitol in Washington on 6 January
An explosion caused by a police munition is seen while supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump gather in front of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021
For his involvement in the riot, a Department of Justice report shows Daniel Goodwyn was charged with: knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol Grounds; obstruction of an official proceedings; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol Building.
He was arrested on 29 January 2021 and indicted on 24 February.
Goodwyn was arraigned on 2 April and pleaded not guilty to all counts.
In the official Complaint & Statement of Facts, the court notes Goodwyn posted on Instagram: ‘I didn’t break or take anything but I went inside for a couple of minutes.’
This January, he pleaded guilty to unlawfully entering the US Capitol Building during the Jan. 6 riot.
In exchange for the plea, prosecutors agreed to drop a felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding, as well as three other misdemeanor counts.
He is expected to face zero-to-six months in prison after a sentencing hearing on 31 May 2023.
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