‘Deeply Wrong’: Elon Musk Torches Jan. 6 Committee After New Video Release

Twitter CEO Elon Musk and Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, ripped the Jan.6 committee on Tuesday in the light of recently released surveillance footage of the Capitol breach of Jan. 6, 2021.

“Besides misleading the public, they withheld evidence for partisan political reasons that sent people to prison for far more serious crimes than they committed,” Musk wrote Tweeted Tuesday by the House Select Committee, in reference to the investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol leakage.

“That is deeply wrong, legally and morally,” Musk spoke.

Musk is a prolific Twitter user, with over 130 million followers. He wrote in response to part of the footage shown on Fox News’s Tucker Carlson Tonight. The Fox News host was then released by Kevin McCarthy, the House Speaker (Republican from California). The criticisms Musk, the world’s wealthiest person has made of the federal government in the Biden administration include his disapproval of his use of Twitter. “Build Back Better” Agenda and calling the Democratic Party the Party of “hatred.”

One of the most prominent revelations in these tapes is a clip that showed Capitol Police officers walking beside Jacob Chansley. Chansley was sentenced to a 41-month term after pleading guilty for obstruction. Chansley was not armed, and walked by several Capitol Police officers.

“This is crazy. The public was misled,” Musk wrote Another post responds to footage that shows Chansley walking with police officers within the building.

Carlson stated Monday that lawmakers are the reason for his Monday show. “lying” About the Jan. 6 events. He claimed they were much less violent than what actually happened. He noticed that Chansley is seen walking through the Capitol on the tape and later asked about the story of officer Sicknick dying from a head injury.

“This tape overturns the single most powerful and politically useful lie that Democrats told us about January 6th,” Carlson stated Monday.

On July 1, 2021, the House of Representatives established the Select Jan.6 committee. It consists of seven Democrats and two Republicans. It interviewed a thousand people, including former officials of the Trump administration, in investigating what it describes as an “insurrection” On Jan. 6, 2021 protesters demonstrated in and around Capitol Building to protest the results of the 2020 presidential election.

The protesters were described by members of the committee as “a bunch of scum.”dangerous extremists” “violent mobs” Trump, the former president, mobilized. In January 2023, the committee was disbanded.

‘Exculpatory Evidence’

Mike Davis, President of Article III Project (a legal non-profit), told The Epoch Times that the tapes are what he considers to be illegal. “exculpatory evidence” Jacob Chansley.

“It shows that he wasn’t a violent threat,” Davis is a former Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch clerk and said that Chansley was his favorite.”At best, he should have been charged with trespassing—at best 30 days in jail. 41 months? For what?”

“I think a reasonable juror would think that he thought he could be there when the police are walking him around and not telling him to leave,” Davis was also mentioned. “Even a ninety-five percent Democrat DC jury would not have found Jacob Chansley guilty if they watched that video.”

Davis also criticized the fact that these tapes weren’t released to Jan. 6 protestors’ defense lawyers; instead, they had to visit the Capitol in Washington to view the tapes.

“The Supreme Court in 1963 held in Brady v. Maryland that prosecutors must make available exculpatory evidence to defense counsel. The issue here is whether they made this clearly exculpatory tape that we saw on Tucker Carlson last night available to Jacob Chansley and his attorney before [Chansley] pled guilty in August of 2021,” Davis said.

“The bottom line is, no defense attorney can go sit in a room for 41,000 hours during a 40-hour work week,” Davis said. “It would take 20 years.”

Davis stated that this disparity between what is reasonable achievable and Brady’s requirements shows how corrupt the prosecution of protesters.

“It shows this whole process was corrupt. It violated Brady, under the U.S. Constitution. Judge Royce Lamberth should issue a show-cause order today to ask, ‘why I should not find a Brady violation against these prosecutors,’ and ‘why I should not reverse the conviction and dismiss the complaint against Jacob Chansley.'”

Tape Reactions

McCarthy’s release of the tapes has elicited mixed reactions from political figures.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) backed statements from Capitol police that said the depiction of the Jan. 6 events on Fox was “false” And “outrageous.” McConnell mentioned Mange’s correspondence, which stated that Capitol police officers had used the information. “de-escalation tactics” On Jan. 6, and this Fox program “cherry-picked from the calmer moments” of surveillance tapes that depicted the events as being more tranquil than they really were.

Democrat Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)  alleged Carlson “manipulated” His viewers were present on his show and he called for Fox News to stop publishing the Capitol breach tapes.

Although some Washington politicians were critical of Carlson, many others were supportive.

“Truth is beginning to be revealed. Thank you [Speaker McCarthy], [Tucker Carlson] & company for showing America the rest of the Jan. 6 story,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) wrote A Twitter posting on March 7th. “When will judges begin applying justice equally? Doesn’t look like ‘thousands of armed insurrectionists’ to me.”

Donald Trump, a former President, praised Carlson for his reporting. He said that the tapes showed the Select Jan. 6 Committee. “criminal fabricators.”

“Congratulations to Tucker Carlson on one of the biggest ‘scoops’ as a reporter in U.S. history. The New Surveillance Footage of the January 6th Events sheds an entirely different light on what actually happened. The Unselect Committee was a giant SCAM, and has now unequivocally been stamped as CRIMINAL FABRICATORS OF THIS MOST IMPORTANT DAY,” Trump wrote the following in a March 7 post His social media platform, Truth Social is available at Truth Social

“Pelosi & McConnell failed on security. The Police story is sad and difficult to watch. ‘Trump’ and most others are totally innocent, LET THEM GO FREE, NOW!” He spoke in reference to Nancy Pelosi (then-Speaker at the House).

McCarthy stated that McCarthy had not yet reviewed the tapes. “belong to the American public.”

“I promised,” McCarthy spoke to the New York Times about an interview. “I was asked in the press about these tapes, and I said they do belong to the American public. I think sunshine lets everybody make their own judgment.”

Many people are awaiting criminal trials in connection to the Jan. 6 charges. requested Due to new video footage, trial delays.

Carlson announced Monday that he would continue to show footage of Capitol breaches on Tuesday. He also planned to interview a Capitol officer who was in the Capitol at the time.