McCarthy defends transfer of Jan. 6 tapes to Carlson by shooting back at CNN reporter after whining

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy stuck to his decision to give Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson thousands of hours of footage of the January 6, 2021 Capitol invasion after a CNN reporter hinted he did something wrong.

Offering Americans a broader picture of that day’s events is a bad idea, according to CNN congressional correspondent Manu Raju.

Carlson’s producers viewed more than 40,000 hours of video of the invasion that followed then-President Donald Trump’s rally that day and led to a delay in approval of the 2020 election and at least 1,000 arrests.

The House Select Committee that investigated the incident presented it as the near end of the Republic in a series of dramatic and theatrical hearings last year. The committee members literally enlisted the services of a Hollywood producer to sell their story.

But the committee’s seven Democrats and two hardline anti-Trump Republicans covered up the clips Carlson showed to his audience on Monday. The videos told a different story than what the leftist media and Democrats wanted to sell.

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While there was undoubtedly violence at the Capitol two years ago, not every person who entered the building was there to rage.

At least one known and now convicted offender, Jacob Chansley’s “QAnon Shaman” appears to have had cops as guides, new videos show.

The fact is that the invasion of the building has never been as sharp and dry as the confrontation between the “rebels” and the people they wanted to kill.

The video also sheds light on claims that Capitol Police Officer Brian Siknick was killed by protesters who tried to enter the building on Jan. 6. According to Carlson, the footage shows Siknik walking around the Capitol afterwards, apparently “healthy and alert.”

(Washington’s chief medical examiner announced in April 2021 that Siknik died of natural causes related to two strokes on January 7.)

The only person to die from violence during the invasion was Ashley Babbitt, an unarmed Air Force veteran who was shot and killed by a Capitol police officer.

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Carlson, thanks to McCarthy, offered millions of Americans a different side of the January 6 story, one that was hidden from them.

The corporate media, Democrats, and even some Republicans immediately began to melt away. Their version of the events of January 6 is never in doubt.

In this case, the Left is of the opinion that McCarthy should be held accountable for giving people the opportunity to see evidence that should have remained hidden.

On Tuesday, Raju reached out to the Speaker of the House and tried to interrogate him about the January 6 offer to Carlson of the complete and unedited videos.

“Because of the videotape you gave Tucker Carlson last night he went on and said he said it was mostly peaceful chaos. He downplayed the death of Brian Siknick, said it had nothing to do with January 6th, that it wasn’t an uprising,” a CNN correspondent told CNN.

He then asked, “Do you regret giving him this footage so that he can whitewash the events of that day?”

McCarthy answered Raju’s loaded question perfectly.

“No,” the speaker said. “I said at the very beginning: “transparency”. And so what I wanted to do for everyone is exactly what I said so that people can really look at it and see what happened that day.”

McCarthy concluded that Americans could “draw their own conclusion” about what happened on January 6th.

He also reminded the CNN reporter that his network had reported the safe locations of many lawmakers at the time of the invasion, rendering the area useless.

The speaker stood his ground.

The attempted interrogation of Raju was certainly not intended to hold McCarthy accountable for some indiscretion, nor was it an honest attempt to get the truth out to the viewers of his TV channel.

The CNN reporter’s questions were calculated to hurt the top Republican in the House of Representatives by putting him on the defensive. Raju had only one motive for his aggressive questions, and that was to discourage people from asking questions about January 6th.

Has McCarthy been a good Speaker of the House so far?

Democrats and the media spent two years portraying the Capitol invasion as an event on the same level as the September 11, 2001 attacks. For some of these people, this is tantamount to Pearl Harbor.

Carlson provided the Americans with evidence showing the other side of what happened that day. Ultimately, this threatens the Democrats’ ability to use it as political capital.

The leftist media wants McCarthy to pay for this.

The speaker deserves credit both for offering the American people much-needed transparency and for not backing down when the biased media challenged him.

This article originally appeared in The Western Journal.

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