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“DEA agent Mark Ibrahim was forced from his job and later indicted simply because he was near the Capitol protest on Jan. 6.”
Tucker Carlson Fox news host. Claim dated 2 Nov 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse

What PolitiFact found

Court documents show Ibrahim had already submitted his intent to resign from the DEA weeks before Jan. 6 and was indicted because he brought a gun with him onto Capitol grounds and made false statements to federal agents

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

Tucker Carlson (Fox news host) made this claim around 2 November 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 November 2021. Its rating was “False”.

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.

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