The White House went on the attack against Tucker Carlson over his segments that downplayed the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that they “agree with Capitol Police and the wide range of bipartisan lawmakers … who have condemned this false depiction of the unprecedented violent attack on our Constitution and the rule of law which costs police officers their lives.” Jean-Pierre also called into question Carlson’s credibility, saying that they agree with Fox’s “own attorneys and executives who have repeatedly stressed in multiple courts of law that Tucker Carlson is not credible when it comes to this issue.” She cited a 2020 NPR report, “You Literally Can’t Believe The Facts Tucker Carlson Tells You.
So Say His Lawyers.” The was a report on Fox News attorneys’ defense of Carlson against a slander claim. In ruling in favor of the network, a New York federal judge wrote that, “Fox persuasively argues, that given Mr.
Carlson’s reputation, any reasonable viewer ‘arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism’ about the statement he makes.” She also cited a Washington Post report on the latest release of emails and text messages in Dominion’s lawsuit against the network.
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