“On Jan. 6, 2021 "Capitol Police never stopped Jacob Chansley. They helped him. They acted as his tour guides.”
Tucker Carlson
Fox News host. Claim dated 6 Mar 2023.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
In short
Tucker Carlson (Fox News host) made this claim around 6 March 2023. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 March 2023, 4 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.
One other organisation checked what looks like the same claim. Their ratings are listed below.
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- PolitiFact: Pants on Fire“Capitol Police officers “helped” QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley and “acted as his tour guides.”
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