“Capitol Police officers “helped” QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley and “acted as his tour guides.”
What PolitiFact found
Evidence rebuts Tucker Carlson’s claim that Capitol Police officers acted as “tour guides” for “QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley during the Capitol attack.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Tucker Carlson (Fox News pundit) made this claim around 6 March 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 March 2023, 3 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
Tucker Carlson has 48 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 23 of them false or fake, 14 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://archive.org/details/FOXNEWSW_20230307_060000_Tucker_Carlson_Tonight/start/561/end…
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