Tucker Carlson Laughs at ‘Highly Curated’ Police Officers Who Testified on Brutal Violence of Capitol Attack

Tucker Carlson ridiculed the four Capitol Police officers who provided harrowing accounts of their experiences on January 6th during a House committee hearing investigating the events of that day.

There is no denying the raw emotion on display on Tuesday, the first hearing of the investigation. Three of the four officers admitted that they thought they were going to die. And in the event that any cynics thought that to be hyperbole, footage was shown making clear just how violent the mob really was.

“You cannot watch this testimony and say that is not a big deal,” said Fox News anchor Bret Baier early on Tuesday, dismissing Republican officials who claimed the hearing was purely political. But Carlson, predictably, took the opposite approach.

“Democrats picked four carefully curated police officers to testify as the voice of the law enforcement community,” Carlson said, before reminding viewers that he had previously called Officer Harry Dunn a “partisan activist and we were right about that.”

He also said that Officer Dunn lied to Congress for claiming Brian Sicknick died due to injuries sustained during the attack of January 6th. It was originally reported that Sicknick died due to head trauma, but a medical team later said that he died of a stroke. Sicknick’s surviving family members have insisted that the stroke was a result of the trauma experienced that day.

Carlson then went after Officer Aquilino Gonell, who compared his experience at the Capitol to his time serving in the military during the Iraq War.

“People we have sworn an oath to protect and they are attacking us with the same flag that they claim to represent,” Gonell said. “It was bad.”

Carlson, who has never served in the US military or defended the US Capitol during a riot, accused Gonnell of “intentionally’ overstating what happened.

“When they lie and they don’t stop lying, when they compare it to the civil war or 9/11, they make us all very cynical and they suspect that we are lying all the time,” Carlson opined.

Then there was Officer Michael Fanone, who said during the hearing that he’s been “left with psychological trauma and emotional anxiety after having survived such a horrific event.”

Fanone testified that he was beaten unconscious on that day, and thought he would be left for dead. Funny? Nah. But coming out of that clip, Carlson laughed. He LAUGHED at Fanone’s testimony of “psychological trauma and emotional anxiety.”

“Not to anyway underplay the crimes were committed on January 6 — there were crimes committed on January 6 — but compared to what?” Carlson asked rhetorically.

“What is interesting is he didn’t mention or experience any trauma during the time he spent last year on the D.C. Police force,” Carlson said, making reference to the Black Lives Matter riots that apparently did not cause Fanone any trauma because — maybe — he wasn’t beaten unconscious and thought he was going to die?

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