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Fact check: Fox News host claims white supremacists did not spark Capitol riot
Bill McCarthy, PolitiFact
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A supporter of President Donald Trump carries a Confederate battle flag inside the Capitol building in Washington, as a mob of his supporters protest the presidential election results, on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Historians said it was unnerving to see a man carry the flag inside the Capitol, something not even Confederate soldiers were able to do during the Civil War. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)ERIN SCHAFF, STF / NYT
The claim: “There’s no evidence that white supremacists were responsible for what happened on Jan. 6. That’s a lie.” Tucker Carlson, Fox News host.
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By Bill McCarthy, PolitiFact.com
Tucker Carlson:
There s no evidence that white supremacists were responsible for what happened on Jan. 6. That s a lie.”
PolitiFact s ruling: False
Here s why: Fox News host Tucker Carlson downplayed the involvement of racially motivated extremist groups in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, falsely suggesting that the mob of pro-Trump rioters who violently stormed the building did not include white supremacists. There s no evidence that white supremacists were responsible for what happened on Jan. 6. That s a lie, Carlson said Feb. 22 on his TV show. And contrary to what you ve been hearing, there s also no evidence this was a, quote, armed insurrection.