Fox's Tucker Carlson Claims President Trump 'Recklessly Encouraged' Capitol Siege
You too, Tucker?
Shane Trejo
Fox News host Tucker Carlson is claiming that President Donald Trump "recklessly encouraged" the mostly peaceful protests at or around the Capitol earlier this week.
"What happened yesterday, they're telling us, wasn't simply that a political protest got out of hand after the president recklessly encouraged it. That is in fact what happened," he said.
"But it's not what they're saying," Carlson added. "Instead they're calling it domestic terrorism, CNN describes it as an insurrection."
Carlson, generally in line with Fox News brass on the matter, is suggesting that it is time to turn the page on President Trump, who may be brought up on charges for encouraging protest at the Capitol.
"We've gone from being this big continental country with an enormous span of concerns and interests to a sweaty chat room of 300 million people all of whom are focused on a single man, Donald Trump. That is not healthy no matter how you feel about Trump," Carlson said on Thursday.
"At some point you've got to wonder about where our country is putting all of its energy. Is any single president, anyone worth all of this time and attention? All politicians whether you agree with them or not come with a shelf life, they are people," he continued.
"They don't last forever, none of us do. In Trump's case, the expiration date arrives in 13 days and after that he will not be president," Carlson added.
Carlson dismissed concerns over the alleged vote steal, neglecting to give it coverage on his titular primetime program while dismissing the claims of attorney Sidney Powell regarding electoral corruption, as Big League Politics has reported:
After the inspiring press conference by attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell on Thursday about the Trump campaign's steadfast dedication toward fighting voter fraud, supporters of President Trump expected Fox News host Tucker Carlson to support these efforts to save America.
Unfortunately, that is not what happened, as Carlson went off on Powell, making statements on his primetime program implying that she has no evidence for her claims.
"For more than a week, Powell has been all over conservative media with the following story: This election was stolen by a collection of international leftists who manipulated vote tabulating software in order to flip millions of votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden," Carlson said.
"The other day on television, Powell said of Trump, that when the fraud is finally uncovered, 'I think we'll find that he had at least 80 million votes.' In other words, rigged software stole about seven million votes in this election," he added.
At this point, Carlson's commentary went off the rails, and he appeared to be carrying water for the color revolution coup that has culminated with the vote steal of the century.
"We invited Sidney Powell on the show. We would have given her the whole hour. We would have given her the entire week actually and listened the whole time at wrapped attention…But she never sent us any evidence despite a lot of requests," Carlson said.
"When we checked with others around the Trump campaign, people in positions of authority, they told us Powell has never given them any evidence either," he added.
Because Powell does not want to jeopardize any court case which the fate of the entire nation rests upon by blabbing to the media or any bureaucrats, Carlson is attacking her credibility.
"She never demonstrated that a single actual vote was moved illegitimately by software from one candidate to another…We're telling you this because it's true," he said.
Big League Wellness
As Trump Leaves Office, Media Cites Ineffectiveness of Lockdowns and Democratic Leaders Display Eagerness to Reopen
Right on cue.
With President Donald Trump's impending exit from the White House, many are starting to perceive pivots from Democratic leaders and the mainstream media on the ineffectiveness of lockdowns and the reopening of society.
For example, Newsweek ran an article Thursday titled "COVID Lockdowns May Have No Clear Benefit vs Other Voluntary Measures, International Study Shows." The study, published in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation, found through a mathematical model that there was "no clear, significant beneficial effect of [more restrictive measures] on [COVID-19] case growth in any country."
This is just one study, of course, so it may not reflect objective reality any more than one study which concludes that lockdowns saved "millions of lives." But after getting bombarded with messages from the media that lockdowns were necessary—with the opposite message found only on explicitly conservative outlets like Big League Politics—it may seem too coincidental to see such a story while the changing of the presidential guard takes place.
Not only that, it also comes at a time when some Democratic leaders appear to be chomping at the bit to reopen restaurants, bars, and schools—after several months of harsh insistence that they all must stay closed in the name of "safety" and "public health."
On Monday, for example, Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York called for the reopening of the state's economy "smartly and safely."
"We simply cannot stay closed until the vaccine hits critical mass. The cost is too high. We will have nothing left to open. We must reopen the economy, but we must do it smartly and safely," Cuomo tweeted.
We simply cannot stay closed until the vaccine hits critical mass. The cost is too high. We will have nothing left to open. We must reopen the economy, but we must do it smartly and safely.#SOTS2021
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) January 11, 2021
Mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot put out a similar call on Thursday, saying that bars and restaurants need to reopen "as quickly as possible" because it will help those businesses survive and reduce the number of large private parties and gatherings.
And incoming president Joe Biden recently pitched a $175 billion plan to return children to school, $130 billion of which would be for public elementary, middle, and high schools, the other $35 billion for colleges and universities. Many teachers unions stubbornly refused to return to in-person classes for the longest time, but now that Biden has come out in support of in-person classes, don't be surprised to see them suddenly change their tune.
The left is so predictable, isn't it?
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