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- Fox News prime-time host Tucker Carlson took on one of his favorite targets Thursday night: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. He called the congresswoman an “empty totalitarian little jerk.”
- Carlson scoffed at the Democrat’s claim that many lawmakers and staff “narrowly escaped death” during the violent riot, in which five people died and dozens of police were wounded.
- “When the most painful thing you’ve done in life is spend your first year in sociology at Boston University, every day is a whole new drama,” Carlson said. “Sandy’s heart is still beating fast!”
- Federal prosecutors argued on Friday that pro-Trump rioters intended to “capture and assassinate US government officials.”
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Fox News prime-time host Tucker Carlson slammed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Thursday night for being “a meaningless totalitarian little jerk”, denigrating her for fearing for her life when of the deadly siege of the Capitol last week by the loyalists of President Donald Trump.
Carlson scoffed at the Democrat’s claim that many lawmakers and staff “narrowly escaped death” during the violent riot, in which five people died and dozens of police were wounded.
“When the most painful thing you’ve done in life is spend your first year in sociology at Boston University, every day is a whole new drama,” Carlson said.
“Sandy’s heart is still beating really fast,” he added, referring to the MP by her childhood nickname.
Carlson also accused Ocasio-Cortez of being a hypocrite for hailing Capitol Hill police officers as “heroic,” while supporting the reallocation of funds from law enforcement to social services.
“She loves the cops now despite being white supremacists,” he said. “What a difference a day makes.”
The Fox host has repeatedly denied that the rioters included many white supremacists and were attempting an insurgency, instead describing the events as a “political protest that got completely out of hand.”
Carlson’s account of the Capitol Riot flies in the face of overwhelming evidence and law enforcement charges. Federal prosecutors argued on Friday that pro-Trump rioters intended to “capture and assassinate US government officials.” They described the rioters who forcibly invaded the Capitol building and invaded the police as “insurgents”. Some of the rioters shouted “hang Mike Pence”, others beat police officers, one of whom was killed after being clubbed with a fire extinguisher.
Rioters nearly met lawmakers in the Capitol building. The vice president was seconds away from making contact with the crowd before he, his wife and daughter were evacuated, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
A Fox News spokeswoman declined to comment on the case and an Ocasio-Cortez spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
—Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) January 15, 2021
Ocasio-Cortez detailed her experience on Capitol Hill during the riots in an Instagram Live video last week in which she said, “I thought I was going to die.”
“I didn’t know if I was going to make it to the end of the day alive,” the congresswoman said.
Notably, Ocasio-Cortez said she did not feel safe in the safe place where she and other lawmakers were evacuated because she feared some of her far-right GOP colleagues would reveal her and “create opportunities for me to be hurt, kidnapped.”
Carlson himself has exaggerated the threats made against himself and his family, whose outrage he expressed on his show. In 2018, he allegedly falsely claimed that antifa protesters opened the front door of his home.
And Carlson has long been accused of sympathizing with white supremacists, whom he has at times disowned. The longtime former senior author of the Carlson Night Show, Blake Neff, was exposed last summer for posting racist and sexist comments for years on an anonymous online forum. After Neff’s resignation, Carlson called his fanatical rants “bogus,” but reserved a harsher condemnation for “complacency” with Neff’s criticisms.
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