Tucker Carlson latest: New texts reveal Carlson ‘hates’ Trump as McConnell, Schumer slam Fox host over Jan 6

Days after court filings revealed Fox News figures and executives privately dismissed false claims related to the 2020 presidential election, one of the network’s most-watched stars spoke out about its legitimacy and appeared to defend hundreds of rioters rampaging through the halls of Congress.

In a March 6 post that attempted to downplay the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, Tucker Carlson said the rioters were “right” in believing the election was “unfairly conducted.” .

Alex Woodwart has the story.

The family of Brian Sicknick, the US Capitol Police officer who died the day after he was attacked by pro-Trump rioters during the Jan. 6 attack, has slammed Fox News and host Tucker Carlson after the fire spokesman Aired video footage that questioned Sicknick’s condition after his attack.

Andrew Feinberg reports what the family said.

The conservative movement and right-wing media never really trusted Kevin McCarthy. They often see him as a chameleon with no real ideology who changed as his party changed. In fact, Mr. Carlson said privately last year McCarthy “sounds like an MSNBC employee” and called him “a puppet of the Dem party” afterwards The New York Times revealed recordings of his discussions with the GOP leadership of the House of Representatives after the Jan. 6 riot.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has blasted the conservative right for their continued efforts to whitewash Tuesday’s deadly attack on the US Capitol during a speech from the floor of the upper chamber.

John Bowden reports on this morning’s reactions from the top Senate Democrat.

Gustav Kilander reported as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy defended the video’s release to Tucker Carlson.

Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called Kevin McCarthy’s gift to Tucker Carlson “completely unethical,” my colleague Eric Garcia reports.

When asked by Eric tonight if McCarthy’s actions have made the Capitol less secure, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said: “It absolutely does. The fact that he turned this over to an organization is completely unethical.”

Other Fox News shows today largely ignored Tucker Carlson’s alleged bomb exposé Rolling Stone.

In a review of Fox News transcripts for Tuesday, the magazine found only one section dealing with the footage, which news anchor Bret Baier assured viewers, “To be clear, no one here at Fox News condones the violence that has taken place in the January happened 6”.

“There is NO evidence of fraud. No. Allegations – Stories. Twitter. Bull****,” he wrote to a friend.

Abe Asher submitted this report when news of the release of videos to Carlson first surfaced.

Tucker Carlson spent that evening’s show attacking his critics but offered little new information, my colleague writes Andrew Feinberg in Washington D.C.

As Carlson discussed the “cascade” of Republican congressmen who objected to his segment last night, Carlson accused them of telling “blatant lies” and “demanding censorship.”

“They’re on the same page,” Carlson claimed. “It’s not really about left and right. It’s not about Republicans and Democrats…the people who have everything in common under everything are all aligned against everyone else.”

But the Jan. 6 footage itself contained nothing new, Andrew says, just the interview with former Capitol Police Officer Tarik Khlaid Johnson that we reported earlier.