Musk Embraces Carlson’s Lies About Capitol Rioters

Mediaite reports:

Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of Twitter, embraced Tucker Carlson’s revisionist account of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol in a series of tweets. In addition to being misleading, Carlson’s episode on the Jan. 6 tapes was riddled with glaring factual inaccuracies.

Musk celebrated Carlson airing the footage. In one tweet, he responded to Mike Cernovich, who launched his political career as a Pizzagate conspiracy theorist, by calling the revelations “Shocking.”

Musk also responded “Wow” to footage from Carlson showing that police officer Brian Sicknick was seen walking around the Capitol building. Sicknick died the next day.

Read the full article. As you can see below, Musk claims that the January 6 committee sent rioters to jail. That, of course, was actually done by federal courts.

Tucker is lying. Here is Jacob Chansley entering the Capitol less than 40 seconds after the breach. There is no dispute. https://t.co/3wYpJp0Edk pic.twitter.com/4tsSsojqoz

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) March 7, 2023

As for the Tucker Carlson show. His program questioned how and why the Jacob Chansley (Q-Anon) police video “didn’t come out at trial”?

Chansley didn’t go to trial. He pleaded guilty.

(He’s serving a prison term thru July in Arizona federal lockup)

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) March 7, 2023

Besides misleading the public, they withheld evidence for partisan political reasons that sent people to prison for far more serious crimes than they committed.

That is deeply wrong, legally and morally.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 7, 2023