Ben Shapiro criticizes Tucker Carlson's rewriting of January 6: “It wasn't a peaceful event”
Shapiro: “Tucker also gave credence to the original falsehoods that I think Donald Trump was speaking from November 4th to January 6th – which is that the election was capable of being overturned, that Trump legitimately won the election and all the rest”
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Citation From the March 8, 2023, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): Now, in the middle of that monologue, Tucker also gave credence to the original falsehoods that I think Donald Trump was speaking from November 4th to January 6th – which is that the election was capable of being overturned, that Trump legitimately won the election and all the rest of that. And he suggested that – not that this is a protest that turned into a riot on the part of some people, which is the accurate way of portraying this, but that it was, essentially, peaceful in the extreme.
Now, if Tucker had done that as a bit of trollery to the left, because the left, you know, in 2020 basically declared the $2 billion in property damages was mostly peaceful protest. If he'd done that as a piece of trollery, I totally get it. I don't think he was doing that. I think he was saying that it was, essentially, a peaceful event. It wasn't a peaceful event. There were people who were peaceful, who entered the Capitol building and then were walking around. That's a large number of people. But there were people who certainly were violent with the police. I mean, we all saw that on TV.