Over seven months since getting booted from Fox News, conservative pundit Tucker Carlson revealed how his former employer really felt about the Jan. 6 footage that he showed on air.
In a podcast interview released Thursday, Carlson told host Roseanne Barr that Fox’s leadership “really didn’t like” his coverage of the Jan. 6 Capitol incursion because he said the so-called insurrection was a “set-up” and a “lie.”
“A bunch of people quit over that,” he said.
“They were so outraged because I said it seems like there were probably a lot of feds in the crowd on Jan. 6.”
“Oh yeah, buttloads,” Barr replied.
“And now it turns out, of course, there were way more than I even imagined,” Carlson continued.
“The whole thing was a complete set-up. The whole thing was a lie, and it was used to put people in prison for expressing their constitutionally protected rights.”
Tucker Carlson talks about getting fired from Fox News: “They REALLY didn’t like the January 6th stuff. They really didn’t.” pic.twitter.com/Cr2QQRym38
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His comments come as more than 1,200 Americans who were tied back to the protests at the Capitol that day