Conservative commentators urged Donald Trump to call off the rioters, but have downplayed the insurrection on their shows ever since.
Fox News hosts who texted then-President Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, as rioters swarmed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 sought to explain their actions Tuesday — while lashing out at Rep. Liz Cheney , for revealing the communications.
They defended their actions and delivered their usual talking points on the events of Jan. 6 that largely ignored the former president’s involvement in encouraging the insurrection.Fox Nation streams Tucker Carlson doc pushing conspiracy theory that government agents spurred insurrection Hannity went back to his usual rationale for Jan. 6, where he repeatedly asked why Congress has not formed a commission to investigate the unrest in cities across the country that erupted in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.
The tone of the Hannity’s program was best described by a screen graphic on the bottom of the screen that read: “Dems Jan 6th Obsession Part of Larger Effort to Grab Permanent Power and Punish Critics.” “Mark, the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home,” Ingraham wrote to Meadows, according to text excerpts Cheney read. “This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy.”
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