Part two of Tucker Carlson's revisionist January 6 series features claim that the attack may have been a “false flag”
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Citation From the November 2, 2021, edition of Fox Nation's Tucker Carlson Originals: Patriot Purge
EMILY RAINEY: I didn't want to cause any major uproar, but I went to the park with my son, Eli, who's two, and we took down the caution tape and we played – could not think of a more peaceful way to stand against what I saw as being overreach. And I was given an administrative reprimand for taking down the caution tape at the park.
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Emily Rainey followed this up with yet another jarring display of extremism. As a private citizen, not in uniform, consistent with her constitutional rights and in violation of no policy directive, she led a group of middle-aged American homeowners to a rally in support of election integrity.
RAINEY: Regardless of what you've heard, myself and a hundred grandmas did not storm the Capitol, we did not see the inside, we didn't take the tour. It was said that I was the architect of the January 6 insurrection. It was said that I led a hundred militia to the Capitol with weapons and military equipment. You know, the insinuations were like using my name in the same sentence as Timothy McVeigh, and then that's when the extremist rhetoric started happening. We started to see all of this stuff coming up about the veterans that were in the crowd.
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RAINEY: As a psychological operations officer, we may or may not be interested in influencing an insurrection in other countries. If you were going to do that, hypothetically, you wouldn't do that by telling a group of a million people to come to the capital, peaceably assemble, and just bring your American flags.
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RAINEY: So if that was an insurrection, it was the most poorly conducted insurrection ever.
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): If it wasn't an insurrection, then what was it?
RAINEY: Special Operations uses the military deception tactic of a false flag abroad against the enemies of America. A false flag is any time you want to frame another group so that you can then take action against that group. It is my opinion that false flags have happened in this country. One of which may have been January 6.
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RAINEY: Fear is one of the biggest tactics used in psychological operations. So what we're seeing is fear being used to manipulate the military to see millions of Americans as domestic terrorists and to try to just silence people. There is a fear that if you're a conservative and you're in the military, that you will be singled out, that you will be looked at with suspicion, that your clearance may be in question. I'm driving into work and I'm thinking I might be arrested at the gate, they're saying that I've committed treason and that I'm a domestic terrorist.
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RAINEY: So you're driving around Fort Bragg, you see NRA stickers, you know, come and take it Gasden flags. You see all of this. When they started to say the extremists were in the military and that those extremists had an interest in the spirit of 1776. You started seeing really poorly scratched-out bumper stickers over all of Fort Bragg. You are slowly purging out of the military any dissenting voice that may actually stand in the way of using military improperly in the future. The last 20 years, we have been a country at war, the Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan. Now that those wars are winding down, there's this idea that the military needs to find a new mission. Their job is not to root out domestic extremism in the homeland. Be ready for that day when you were given an unlawful order, per the Constitution –
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RAINEY: – where you take your rank off and you say no, the hell with that. That's my prayer, is really for my own brothers and sisters in arms. Wake up.