Tucker Carlson launches unhinged conspiracy theory tying Capitol insurrection to George Floyd’s death by “drug overdose”
Carlson: “The autopsy showed that George Floyd almost certainly died of a drug overdose, fentanyl”
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From the February 10, 2020, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): The question is why would they lie about this? For an answer think back to last spring. Beginning on Memorial Day, B.L.M. and their sponsors in corporate America completely changed this country. They changed this country more in five months than it had changed in the previous 50 years.
How did they do that? They used the sad death of a man called George Floyd to up-end our society. Months later, we learned that the story they told us about George Floyd's death was an utter lie.
There was no physical evidence that George Floyd was murdered by a cop. The autopsy showed that George Floyd almost certainly died of a drug overdose, fentanyl.
But by that point the facts didn't matter. It was too late. Cities had been destroyed, along with the fabric of this country itself. Scores of people had been killed. Democratic partisans used a carefully concocted myth, a lie, to bum-rush America into overturning the old order and handing them much more power. It worked flawlessly. So why wouldn’t they do it again?