Elon Musk goes all in on January 6 denial

Twitter CEO Elon Musk joined the right-wing chorus on Tuesday denying that a violent riot took place at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, after foxnews broadcast carefully selected footage of the incident Provided by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Republican Kevin McCarthy.

In response to the communications director of an organization aligned with the Freedom Caucus, who alleged that members of the House committee investigating the riots had lied, Elon took to his social media platform to write: “In addition to misleading the public, they concealed evidence for partisan political reasons that sent people to prison for far more serious crimes than they committed. That is profoundly wrong, legally and morally.”

“This is Crazy. The public was fooled,” Musk saying in a separate tweet about the footage, which aired Monday on Fox News host Tucker Carlsonthe show.

after right conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich wrote that “the big lie of January 6” had been “exposed,” Musk answered“Shocking indeed.”

And in response to a Twitter user who accused the BBC of not covering “the new evidence from 6th January,” Musk tweeted on one of the broadcaster’s accounts, writing: “What do you say, @BBCWorld? Your credibility is at stake.”

Other comments came over the course of several hours early Tuesday, shortly after Musk, the world’s richest person, He suggested who uses Twitter while in the bathroom for long periods.

Carlson was able to air his insurrection denial episode after McCarthy controversially gave him access to more than 40,000 hours of footage from Capitol security cameras. The Speaker of the House and other conservatives have tried to minimize the historical and political significance of January 6 in the two years since the attack.

Carlson used select frames to assert that the mob, whose members assaulted law enforcement officers and sought to confront their political rivals, was in fact “orderly and meek.”

“These were not insurgents. They were tourists,” Carlson said.

It has always been public knowledge that not everyone who entered the Capitol did so in a violent manner. Some simply followed after others broke windows and forced doors. Violent acts by the crowd, such as trap a police officer against a door and singing “Heave, ho!” as the officer yelled in pain—are well documented.

US Capitol Police and DC Metropolitan Police they were not adequately prepared to deal with the waves of people marching on Congress in support of now-former President Donald Trump, and faced a reckoning from lawmakers following the attack.

But agency leaders have defended the actions of individual officers, saying they did the best they could in an impossible situation. An African-American officer donned a red “Make America Great Again” cap amidst the chaos because, as he later explained, he felt he could get people in the crowd to help him rescue other officers by posing as a Trump supporter. Several law enforcement officers testified under oath about how they had been brutalized by the mob.

According to the Department of Justice, around 1,000 people have been arrested in connection with the incident in nearly all 50 states. More than 300 of them have been indicted on charges of suspicion of assaulting or impeding Capitol Hill officials or employees.