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Liz Cheney Rips Tucker Carlson, Fox for ‘Un-American’ Lies About Jan. 6 | Rolling Stone

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) blasted those who are spreading conspiracy theories about the January 6th insurrection — that the violence that day was a “false flag” operation — as “un-American” and “very dangerous.”

“It’s the same kind of thing you hear from people who say 9/11 was an inside job, for example,” Cheney said during an appearance on Fox News Sunday. “It’s un-American to be spreading those kinds of lies, and they are lies.”

Cheney, who is the top Republican on the select committee investigating January 6th, offered this scathing answer in response to a question from host Chris Wallace about recent claims that January 6th was an inside job or somehow provoked by agents of the government in an effort to smear or crack down on supporters of Donald Trump. Wallace didn’t say specifically to whom he was referring, but one major media figure has stoked controversy in recent days for giving a massive platform to such unfounded claims: Fox News’s own Tucker Carlson.

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Source: Liz Cheney Rips Tucker Carlson, Fox for ‘Un-American’ Lies About Jan. 6 | Rolling Stone