“Tucker Carlson draws bipartisan backlash for ‘false flag’ claim about Jan. 6 in new documentary”

Washington Post:

Tucker Carlson, the most popular voice in conservative media, drew condemnation Thursday for the trailer of a new series he plans to debut next week promising to “tell the true story” of the Jan. 6 insurrection, in which one subject appears to float a baseless conspiracy theory that the Capitol riot was covertly orchestrated by the government.

“False flags have happened in this country,” an unidentified female speaker is heard to say in the clip of “Patriot Purge” aired on Carlson’s Fox News show Wednesday night, “one of which may have been January 6.”

Carlson said the three-part series will air as a “Tucker Carlson Original” on the streaming service Fox Nation starting Monday. “We believe that it answers a lot of the remaining questions from that day,” he said, arguing that the U.S. government has “launched a new war” on American citizens by prosecuting participants in the insurrection who ransacked the building and attacked law enforcement officers.

If Carlson endeavored to trigger a ferocious backlash with the trailer, he succeeded.

That outrage came from Republicans as well as from Democrats, and even included a member of the Fox News family. “’False flags!?’ Bull—-,” wrote Geraldo Rivera, a 20-year veteran of the network who serves as a roaming correspondent at large….

Carlson has previously suggested that the federal government was in on the attack, arguing on his show in June that individuals referred to as “unindicted co-conspirators” in government charging documents were likely “FBI operatives.” Late last month, Carlson had a slightly different take, arguing on his show that the Jan. 6 rioters “don’t look like terrorists — they look like tourists,” charging again that “they were not insurrectionists.”

Carlson betrayed no doubts about the veracity of the claims made in the series. “We’re proud of it,” he said on Wednesday night. “It’s the best thing we’ve ever done.”

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