Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called the Fox News host's portrayal a "mistake," while Sen. Kevin Cramer said it was ājust a lieā to compare Jan. 6 to a peaceful protest.
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'Bulls---': GOP senators rebuke Tucker Carlson for downplaying Jan. 6 as 'mostly peaceful'
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called the Fox News host's portrayal a "mistake," while Sen. Kevin Cramer said it was ājust a lieā to compare Jan. 6 to a peaceful protest.
At a GOP leadership press conference, McConnell said he
wanted to associate himself with the letter sent to the U.S. Capitol Police force by Chief Thomas Manger, who denounced Carlson for spreading āoffensive and misleading conclusionsā about the Jan. 6 insurrection, including a ādisturbing accusationā that Officer Brian Sicknickās death had nothing to do with the riot.
"I want to associate myself entirely with the opinion of the chief and the Capitol Police about what happened on January 6," McConnell said as he held up a copy of the letter. "It was a mistake, in my view, for Fox News to depict this in a way thatās completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at the Capitol thinks.ā
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A handful of other Senate Republicans on Tuesday pushed back on Carlson's claim that Jan. 6 was "peaceful chaos," with
Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina blasting those remarks as ābullshit.ā
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Sen. Kevin Cramer, a North Dakota conservative, said he was in the Capitol on Jan. 6 and firmly rejected Carlson's portrayal of that day as āsome rowdy peaceful protest of Boy Scouts.ā
āI think that breaking through glass windows and doors to get into the United States Capitol against the borders of police is a crime.
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Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said itās āreally sad to see Tucker Carlson go off the rails like that,ā saying that heās ājoining a range of shock jocks that are disappointing America and feeding falsehoods.ā
āThe American people saw what happened on Jan. 6."
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Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., also rejected Carlsonās comments that the day was peaceful.
āI was there on Jan. 6. I saw what happened. I saw the aftermath. There was violence on Jan. 6,ā Rounds told reporters.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham ... "I think the Jan. 6 committee had a partisan view of things, and I'd like to know more about what happened that day and the day before," Graham added. "But I'm not interested in whitewashing the Covid lab theory, and I'm not interested in whitewashing Jan. 6."