Biden Says Republicans, Tucker Carlson Should Feel Ashamed Over Jan. 6 Tapes

Republican lawmakers, Joe Biden said they should feel the same way as President Joe Biden. “ashamed” They are allegedly helping to support efforts. “undermine” Response of law enforcement to the breach at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021

“More than 140 officers were injured on Jan 6,” Biden tweeted his thoughts. “I’ve said before: How dare anyone diminish or deny the hell they went through? I hope House Republicans feel ashamed for what was done to undermine our law enforcement.”

Biden posted the critiques to respond to a Twitter posting sharing an internal document. memo allegedly from U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger, which criticized Fox News host Tucker Carlson for airing some of the never-disclosed video and commentary on the breach that was allegedly “filled with offensive and misleading conclusions about the January 6 attack.”

Carlson received the House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R.Calif.). exclusive access Up to 41,000 hours surveillance footage, starting Jan. 6, February. Some of this was aired by the host on March 6.

Monday’s video showed Capitol Police officers walking peacefully through the Capitol, Jacob Chansley, the “State Police” “QAnon Shaman” who is currently serving time in prison after pleading guilty to one count of obstructing an official proceeding in September 2021.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth sentenced him to 41 months imprisonment in November 2021.

A short clip was also available. show Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick wandering around in the Capitol Rotunda and making gestures to protesters. The next day, he died.

Carlson is the target of the Chief of Capitol Police Police

Carlson said that the footage was evidence. “whatever happened to Brian Sicknick was very obviously not the result of violence he suffered at the entrance to the Capitol,” Referring to the reports that Sicknick died from injuries sustained by Trump supporters during his breach.

The following are some examples autopsy report released by the Washington, D.C. Medical Examiner’s Office in April 2021 showed that Sicknick’s death was ultimately determined to have been from natural causes after he suffered two strokes near the base of his brain stem.

However, the examiner noted that “all that transpired played a role in his condition,” This may refer to January 6.

Manger accused Carlson, in a memo, of possessing “conveniently cherry-picked” Video footage taken from “calmer moments” Adding that the commentary was also breached “fails to provide context about the chaos and violence that happened before or during these less tense moments.”

According to the police chief, commentary on the program was not included in the programming. “filled with offensive and misleading conclusions about the Jan. 6 attack.”

“I don’t have to remind you how outnumbered our officers were on January 6,” Manger wrote. “Those officers did their best to use de-escalation tactics to try to talk rioters into getting each other to leave the building.”

U.S. Capitol Police did not dispute reports describing the memo allegedly sent by Manger when contacted by The Epoch Times and said that Carlson’s team did not contact the agency before airing the segment.

However, statement The Hill reported that Capitol Police claimed they had “repeatedly requested that any clips be shown to us first for a security review,” That and more “so far we have only been given the ability to preview a single clip out of the multiple clips that aired.”

Carlson claims he checked with Capitol Police before airing the footage.

Carlson Footage Concerns Lawmakers

Prior to giving tHe tapes to Carlson, McCarthy had said in January that he was looking to release all of the security footage in an effort to promote transparency.

“I think the American public should actually see all that happened instead of a report that’s written for a political basis,” he said On Jan. 12, he spoke at his first conference of press as a speaker

The U.S. Capitol Police had earlier provided around 14,000 hours of footage from the Jan. 6 breach to the House Select Committee probing the incident.

That committee closed down in January after completing an 18-month investigation into the breach and sending its work to the Justice Department along with a recommendation for prosecuting former President Donald Trump on several charges, including insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding, making a false statement to the federal government, and conspiracy to defraud the federal government.

Trump has dismissed the committee’s criminal referrals.

While some lawmakers have supported the release of the footage to Carlson, others, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), have expressed concerns over the Fox News host’s depiction of the events.

“It was a mistake in my view for Fox News to depict this in a way that’s completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at the Capitol thinks,” McConnell told Reporters on Tuesday

Schumer, meanwhile, said on the Senate floor in Washington on the same day, “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a primetime cable news anchor manipulate his viewers the way Mr. Carlson did last night.”

The Justice Department reports that approximately 140 officers from the police were attacked during Jan. 6, 2006, Capitol breach.