By Bill McCarthy, PolitiFact.com
Tucker Carlson:
There s no evidence that white supremacists were responsible for what happened on Jan. 6. That s a lie.”
PolitiFact s ruling: False
Here s why: Fox News host Tucker Carlson downplayed the involvement of racially motivated extremist groups in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, falsely suggesting that the mob of pro-Trump rioters who violently stormed the building did not include white supremacists. There s no evidence that white supremacists were responsible for what happened on Jan. 6. That s a lie, Carlson said Feb. 22 on his TV show. And contrary to what you ve been hearing, there s also no evidence this was a, quote, armed insurrection.
The cumulative impact has experts wondering about the Proud Boys’ long-term future.
Since their foundation in 2016 by the far-right Canadian media personality and entrepreneur Gavin McInnes, the all-male group – who wear uniform clothing, enforce bizarre initiation rituals, eschew masturbation, and reward violence with higher degrees of membership – have been an outsized presence on the landscape of pro-Trump extremism, and successful in promoting themselves as the most militant part of his coalition.
But their role in the Capitol insurrection especially has brought far less welcome attention.
Law enforcement agencies have connected at least 10 Capitol arrestees with the Proud Boys in criminal complaints and affadavits. Those charged include leaders like the Florida combat veteran and conspiracy theorist Joe Biggs and Washington state’s Ethan Nordean, whose prominence rose in the group after he was caught on film attacking an antifascist during a 2018 riot in downtown Port
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