“Federal agents directly incited people on Jan. 6, 2021, and "intentionally entrapped" American citizens.”
Tucker Carlson
Fox News host. Claim dated 1 Nov 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
There is no credible evidence of this conspiracy theory, and Carlson’s piece doesn’t present any. The film points to unverified, anecdotal accounts and circumstantial speculation.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Tucker Carlson (Fox News host) made this claim around 1 November 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 4 November 2021, 3 days later. 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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