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June 16, 2021, 11:33 am
Tucker Carlson, Fox News’ worst person since Bill O’Reilly got canned, got on camera Tuesday night to argue that because some of the people named by authorities as being directly involved in the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol have not been charged, they must be FBI agents. And if they are FBI agents, that must automatically mean that the entire event was organized by the FBI in a false flag operation.
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Why they would have done this to the Capitol police and the entire body of the highest legislative office-holders in the nation is not explained by Carlson in the clip now going around Twitter.
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“Person Two and Person Three were organizers of the riot. The government knows who they are, but the government has not charged them. Why is that?” said Carlson, referring to two individuals named in indictment documents. “You know why: They were almost certainly working for the FBI. So, FBI operatives were organizing the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, according to government documents.”
Making the leap from “these organizers of a crime have not been charged yet” to “the government admits the FBI organized the crime” is quite a feat—one that is giving normal people some serious Alex Jones vibes. The much more likely explanation is, of course, that these individuals are working with the FBI and will be charged or not based on how effective their help was in finding and charging others.
We already know that Oath Keepers founder Jon Ryan Schaffer has agreed to help the FBI in its investigation.
Tucker Carlson thinks the FBI orchestrated the January 6th Insurrection.
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The real fatal flaw in Carlson’s theory, however, comes from the fact that the government is literally not allowed to name undercover agents as “unindicted co-conspirators” in indictments or other documents for reasons that become pretty obvious if you think about it for a second.
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This latest Carlson conspiracy theory was so bad that by morning, Twitter had to address his claim as his name trended to debunk it in no uncertain terms.
“Federal law does not permit cooperating witnesses or informants to be charged with conspiracy, despite a baseless suggestion by Tucker Carlson that some co-conspirators of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol were not charged because they were undercover FBI agents,” the trend description reads.
It’s not just Twitter lawyers who think Carlson is full of it, either.
“There are many reasons why an indictment would reference unindicted co-conspirators, but their status as FBI agents is not one of them,” said criminal law professor Jens David Ohlin to the Washington Post.
Carlson goes on to make the claim that because the FBI had admitted to infiltrating dangerous white supremacist militia organizations such as the Oath Keepers and because this group was heavily involved in the insurrection, the FBI must have orchestrated the whole thing. He appears to be banking on his viewers conveniently forgetting who was still in power on January 6, 2021, and who the Oath Keepers actively support.
“We shouldn’t be shocked, because in March the FBI director admitted that the bureau was infiltrating as many dissident groups that opposed the regime as it possibly could,” he said.
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These “dissident groups” are largely white supremacist militias and anti-government groups who were and still are very supportive of President Trump, were sent off to the Capitol itself by Trump, and the insurrection was explicitly meant to overturn Biden’s 2020 win before he could take office. The regime was Trump’s and the groups infiltrated by the FBI were actively in favor of it, not opposed.
*First Published: June 16, 2021, 11:33 am
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