Tucker Carlson released video footage from Jan 6 that proved the Jan 6 Committee edited footage used during the Jan 6 hearings, and withheld footage that contradicted their narrative. He also claimed that not all the protestors were violent.
Later, on the floor of the Senate, Chuck Schumer claimed that Tucker said that there was no violence.
So according to Schumer, saying not all protestors were violent is the equivalent to claiming NONE of the protesters were violent.
Remember the QAnon Shaman? He is currently serving a 4 year prison sentence for felony obstruction. We have all seen the video of him in the capital looking like a crazy person. However, what we haven’t seen (until Tucker showed the video) is footage of capital police escorting him around inside the capital building, past nearly a dozen other officers, opening doors for him. He even said a prayer in the Senate chamber in which he thanks the capital police for allowing them into the capital.
Remember the video of Senator Josh Hawley running away during the capital riot? Democrats ridiculed him, calling him a coward. But the unedited video (shown by Tucker) shows a group of lawmakers running along behind capital police- with Senator Hawley lagging behind. So Hawley got roasted and accused of cowardice while the Democrat lawmakers sprinting ahead of him got a pass.
Then there is protester Ray Epps.
A number of Jan 6th protestors were arrested, charged, and convicted of trespassing for being on the capital grounds. Ray Epps, who can be seen in numerous videos at the capital some showing him shouting at the crowd “WE NEED TO GO INTO THE CAPITAL!”. Epps even sent a text during the ensuing riot in which he claimed to have orchestrated the storming of the capital. Yet he was never charged.
Of course we should not forget the protest at the capital was planned weeks in advance, a permit for the protest at the capital was applied for (and approved), capital police were notified directly a week in advance, and President Trump actually requested extra security for the capital and even suggested the National Guard should provide extra security (Speaker of the House Nancy Peloci denied those requests).
This reminds me of when Trump spoke about the riot in Charlottesville, VA.
He first strongly condemned “this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence”, and insisted “It has no place in America”. And then he pointed out not all the protesters were white nationalist, and that while there were “very bad people in that group”, there were also “very fine people, on both sides”. Schumer (and other Democrats) then claimed Trump said white nationalist were very fine people.
In stark contrast, during the George Floyd protests in 2020 when police stations, federal buildings, and businesses and homes were fire bombed, and people were pulled from cars and beaten in the streets, Democrats refused to even use the word “riots” and publicly condemned those that did. CNN even went as far as to claim the ‘protests’ were mostly peaceful while one of their reporters stood in front of cars and buildings fully engulfed in flames.
Isn’t it interesting how a ‘protest’ in which people are assaulted in the streets and buildings and property are set on fire is ‘mostly peaceful”. Yet the protest at the capital is viewed as violent, and any mention of peaceful protesters or the suggestion that not all the protestors were violent is seen as an attempt to deny the violence?