Trump supporters on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021.
With the second impeachment trial against Trump underway, the January 6 crowd storming Capitol Hill is once again in the spotlight. “The details make the difference,” and this Time, one can’t help but interrogate more details to find out the closest thing to the truth.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson took a stab at finding the truth through details on his Feb. 10 episode of The Tucker Carlson Tonight Show.
Carlson said on the show, “Before we remake America to prevent future congressional ‘genocide,’ perhaps we should learn more about the crimes that took place on Jan. 6. What really happened that day? You may be surprised to learn that even now, we know very little. In fact, unusually, many of the most basic questions are still unanswered more than a month after the event.”
“The fact that five Americans died in and around the Capitol on Jan. 6, as you have heard, does not tell us much. As always, it’s the details that matter. Who were these people, and how did they die? That determines how you understand what actually happened.”
All five deaths were Trump (Trump) supporters
Carlson continued, “With that in mind, here are the facts: four of the five people who died that day were Trump supporters. The fifth was a Capitol Hill police officer who apparently also supported Trump. Why is this relevant? Of course, the political views of the deceased shouldn’t matter, but unfortunately, in this case, it does. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and many other elected Democrats claim that the mob was coming for them that day. However, the only documented casualties on Jan. 6 were ordinary people who voted for Trump.”
The first of these was a 34-year-old woman from Georgia named Rosanne Boyland. Authorities initially declared that Boyland died of a “medical emergency. Later video footage showed that she may have been accidentally trampled to death by the crowd. We’re still not sure, but that’s the best guess.
The second casualty was 55-year-old Kevin Greeson, who died of heart failure while talking to his wife on the phone outside the Capitol. His wife later said, “Kevin had a history of High blood pressure and in the excitement of it, had a heart attack.”
The third was Benjamin Phillips, 50, of Ringtown, Pennsylvania. Phillips, a Trump supporter, organized a bus trip to Washington for the rally that day. He died of a stroke on the grounds outside the Capitol. There is no evidence that Phillips rioted or was injured by the mob or even went inside the Capitol.
The fourth person to die was Ashli Babbitt, a 35-year-old Army veteran from San Diego, the only person to die from an intentional injury. Babbitt was wearing a Trump supporter’s cape when she was shot and killed by a Capitol Hill police lieutenant. Babbitt’s death was captured on video, so her death is the best documented of the day’s events. But surprisingly little is still known about it.
Babbitt, shot and killed while trying to climb through a broken window into the Speaker’s Hall of the Capitol, is the basics of what is known. Authorities have refused to name the person who shot her or reveal any details of the investigation they conducted, and people may never know exactly why the unnamed Capitol Hill police officer tried to kill her.
According to the officer’s attorney, “Looking at the evidence, one would just think he’s a hero.” Of course, people can’t actually see the evidence because they’re hiding it. People can’t even know who he is. Carlson questioned, “Killing an unarmed woman may be justified in certain specific circumstances, but since when is it heroic? When did the dead woman read the QAnon website? Republicans aren’t asking that question.”
Rep. Markwayne Mullin (D-Mass.) said he immediately hugged the officer who shot Babbitt and told him, “Look, you did what you had to do.”
But Carlson asked rhetorically, “Did that officer really have to do that? We don’t know. All we know is that Babbitt was unarmed when he was killed. However, during the impeachment trial this week, Rep. David Cicilline (D-Calif.), described what happened at the Capitol as an ‘armed rebellion.'”
Cicilline is a former Mafia lawyer from Providence (R-R.I.), so he presumably knows what committing a felony with a firearm is. There are no reports that the rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6 used weapons or threatened anyone with a gun. So what exactly is Cicilline talking about?
Apparently he was referring to the death of Officer Brian Sicknick (D). In the hours following the riots, the New York Times reported that Trump supporters brutally beat Officer Sicknick to death with a fire extinguisher. News of Snick’s violent death was quickly picked up by countless other media outlets that repeatedly reported and exaggerated the story.
This narrative formed the basis of the myth constructed by Democrats around Jan. 6. Snicker’s body was laid to rest in the Capitol as a mark of respect. Carlson said sarcastically, “The same politicians who a few months ago were telling us that the police were racist have been praising Snick as a hero. They’ve finally found a cop who serves their political purposes.”
What Democrats say is a lie from start to finish
Carlson asserted, “There’s just one problem: The story they’re telling is a lie from start to finish. Officer Snicker was not beaten to death with a fire extinguisher or anything else. According to a thorough and fascinating new analysis in Revolver News, there is no evidence that Snick was struck with a fire extinguisher at any time on Jan. 6. The officer’s body apparently showed no signs of trauma. In fact, Snik texted his brother from the police office on the night of Jan. 6, long after the rioters at the Capitol had been arrested or dispersed. According to his brother, Snik said he was ‘pepper sprayed twice’ but was otherwise ‘in good shape.’ 24 hours later, Officer Snik died.”
“How did he die? The head of the Capitol Hill police union said he had a stroke. His body was immediately cremated and authorities refused to release the results of his autopsy. No one has been charged or prosecuted for his death. Whatever happened to Snick is obviously tragic, but it’s also very different from what they’re telling us. They lied about the cause of his death, and they lied a lot.”
Finally, Carlson asked, “How did this riot start? Was it a spontaneous event instigated by a reckless president, in a fit of vicious rage? Was the riot deliberate, or the result of a conspiracy? These are two theories about the incident, but neither can be true.”
“This weekend, former Capitol Hill Police Chief Steven Sund, in a letter to House Speaker Pelosi, claimed that there was no intelligence that a riot at the Capitol might be imminent.”
“Apparently, the Washington Post’s sources were better informed than Sund. In the days following Jan. 6, the paper reported that a group of Trump supporters were known to be heading to Washington to cause trouble. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) almost certainly knew this. They likely had paid informants in the ranks of the protesters.”
“If the authorities knew that violence was likely to occur at the Capitol, where was the necessary security? And it wasn’t there.”
“We’re not sure what it all means, and we’re not going to speculate. What we do know for sure is that the known facts of what happened on Jan. 6 are a very significant departure from the story that they’re telling us now, including the story that Democrats are telling in the impeachment trial. In many places, the known facts bear no resemblance to the story they are telling. They’re just outright lying. There’s no question about that.”
Arbitrary exaggeration of events on Capitol Hill
Carlson said the Democrats’ description of the events on Capitol Hill is simply unbelievable: “Some in Congress are comparing this day (Jan. 6) to 9/11. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) compared it to Pearl Harbor, which prompted the United States to enter World War II.”
“Every day we hear new and flashier comparisons from members of the Democratic Party. But on the night of Feb. 10, CNN outdid all of them by comparing what happened on Jan. 6 to the genocide in Rwanda (Rwanda).”
“Remember, nearly a million people were killed in Rwanda in 1994, about 70 percent of the country’s Tutsis (ethnic Tutsis). Entire towns were hacked to death with machetes. People were set on fire and crushed alive by bulldozers. Hundreds of thousands of women were raped. It was one of the most horrific crimes in human history.”
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