Tucker Carlson calls January 6 rioters “patriotic Americans”
Carlson: “Smug TV anchors are telling them that actually, a senile man who refused to campaign had won the biggest landslide in American history”
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Citation From the March 21, 2023, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight
TUCKER CARLSON: In fact, as of tonight, it's not just Trump who is the target of this, it's Trump's voters. The Biden administration is in the process preparing yet another law enforcement dragnet of more than 1,000 nonviolent January 6 protesters. These were not people who broke windows or tussled with cops. These were patriotic Americans who questioned -- who dared to question -- the official story of the 2020 election.
They watched with the rest of us as COVID was used as a pretext to eliminate long standing barriers to voter fraud. They saw Democratic partisan Mark Zuckerberg spend nearly half a billion dollars to influence the mechanics of voting, including in critical swing states.
Nevertheless, as they watched the news on the night of November 3, Trump seemed to be winning reelection. And then they woke up, and smug TV anchors are telling them that actually, a senile man who refused to campaign had won the biggest landslide in American history. "He got 15 million more votes than Barack Obama."
They were skeptical. They did not buy that. So they went to Washington to protest -- they thought that was their right -- and as a result, January 6.