Not a single person in the crowd that day was found to be carrying a firearm — some insurrection. In fact, the only person who wound up shot to death was a protester. She was a 36-year-old military veteran called Ashli Babbitt. Babbitt was just over five feet tall. She was unarmed. She posed no conceivable threat to anyone, but Capitol Hill Police shot her in the neck and never explained why that was justified.
Thursday, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson hammered the House January 6 committee for the hearings they were during his broadcast.
Carlson questioned why the hearings had taken precedent over other problems plaguing the country and argued the committee members were not being truthful with their presentation.
Transcript as follows:
CARLSON: You know it tells you a lot about the priorities of a ruling class that the rest of us are getting yet another lecture about January 6 tonight from our moral inferiors, no less.
An outbreak of mob violence, a forgettable minor outbreak by recent standards, that took place more than a year and a half ago, but they’ve never stopped talking about it.
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