Fact check: Fox News host claims white supremacists did not spark Capitol riot Bill McCarthy, PolitiFact FacebookTwitterEmail 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.