Tucker Carlson claimed during a recent interview with Donald Trump Jr. that the January 6th Capitol rioters were “pure-hearted” Americans.
Trump Jr. joined the former Fox News host for an interview on his new platform to discuss the former president’s criminal conviction earlier this week in a Manhattan courtroom. Trump was convicted on 34 counts for falsifying business records regarding hush money payments to Stormy Daniels.
During his interview with Carlson, Don Jr. began slamming everyday FBI agents, arguing they need to speak up against DOJ leadership for the “bastardization of justice.”
Carlson then went on to slam law enforcement and media figures who labeled the January 6th rioters as “insurrectionists.”
“It’s almost like you get kidnapped and the kidnapper has a mask on but once he shows you his face he’s got to kill you.”
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TRUMP JR: I gave the door kickers a pass for far too long, which is like, hey, you know, they can’t go against the leadership. But like, when you’re watching this kind of bastardization of justice, when you’re watching this sort of lopsided level, when they’re, you know, they spend more time kicking down the doors of an Amish farmer selling unpasteurized milk than actually going after people committing terror because, you know, they’re trans or, you know, whatever it is that they are, you really lose that ability to get that pass that I really wanted them to give. But, you know, I wanted to believe that everything I grew up believing was accurate. And it’s all bullshit. It’s just all bullshit. So we have to fix that. That’s that’s why we fight now, to actually make it so.
CARLSON: But you saw this on January 6th, too. I mean, I know that Joe Scarborough and the rest of the liars presented those people as like, insurrectionists and dangerous. They were actually the most pure hearted and most naive…I mean, they were they were literally walking with pocket constitutions. Saying, no, you can’t do this. They believed in the system much more than the people who put them in prison, who don’t believe in it at all.
TRUMP JR: Without question. And you saw that. I mean, you know, the narrative was pushed so much. The clips that they used were designed to create something that didn’t actually happen. I mean, it’s so sick.
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