The glaring problems with Tucker Carlson's attempt to blame the FBI for the insurrection

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.vox.com/2021/6/23/22544084/tucker-carlson-january-6-insurrection-fbi

On June 15, about 3 million people watched Fox News as Tucker Carlson pushed a conspiracy theory about the January 6 insurrection being an inside job organized by the FBI. His case rested upon an interpretation of court documents that was almost immediately debunked.

But the fact Carlson’s theory was quickly shown to be wrong didn’t matter. In an illustration of how the right-wing misinformation pipeline works, instead of correcting the record, Republican members of Congress spent the following days amplifying Carlson’s baseless claims.

Carlson highlighted a case involving Thomas Caldwell, a veteran who was among a group of Oath Keepers charged with conspiracy in connection with the insurrection. He suggested Caldwell was entrapped by an unidentified “Person Two” referenced in the charging document.

“Person Two and Person Three were organizers of the riot,” Carlson said. “The government knows who they are. But the government has not charged them. Why is that? You know why — they were almost certainly working for the FBI.”

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[underpants]

1. It still strikes me as an extrapolation based on Enrique Tarrio being outed as an FBI informant

I know that the explanation is that there was a misreading of info but I swear the very beginning was spinning a cover story for Tarrio.

[Nevilledog]

2. I think Tarrio informed on the Proud Boys

He was conveniently arrested 2 days before the Insurrection and not allowed to be in D.C.

They had to do it that way because there's no other excuse for Tarrio to not be at the insurrection.

[underpants]

3. I don't doubt he was picked up for that reason

I was just looking at it as using one little kernel of something and twisted it to serve their purpose. It doesn’t take much for them to get this sort of thing started with them. They find anything that sticks to it along the way.

[CentralMass]

4. The fact that it came out of Tucker Carlson's mouth is ample evidence that it is most likely a lie.