Trump demands that the January 6 committee be tried for treason over Tucker Carlson videos

Donald Trump has called for members of the January 6 committee to be tried for treason because they “knowingly refused” to share footage of the Capitol riots broadcast by Tucker Carlson.

The former president called members of the Democratic-led panel “thugs and political thugs” who have been “totally discredited” by the new videos.

In his Truth Social post, he also called for the release of all prisoners and suspects jailed on January 6 after the Fox News host aired more clips on his show Tuesday night.

It included an interview with a Capitol police officer who wore a MAGA cap during the riots, who resigned a short time later, believing he had no future on the force.

Carlson received 40,000 hours of footage from inside the Capitol, which House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said was a decision made for transparency.

“GREAT JOB TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT,” Trump wrote Tuesday night.

‘The Unselect Committee of Political Hacks & Thugs has been totally discredited.

‘They knowingly refused to show the videos that mattered. They must be tried for Fraud and Treason, and those imprisoned and persecuted must be exonerated and released, NOW.

Treason is punishable by death in the US and the lowest prison sentence is five years.

It is described in the penal code as: ‘Whoever, because of the loyalty of the United States, wages war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and suffer death, or be imprisoned for not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and he will be unable to hold any office in the United States.’

On Monday, Carlson claimed that the footage showed the rioters to be “mostly peaceful.” On Tuesday, she spoke with Lt. Tarik Johnson about the riots and Johnson’s infamy after he was seen wearing the hat.

Johnson told Carlson that their bosses had failed them, saying Capitol Police commanders were ill-prepared and did not respond when he radioed for guidance.

He said it was embarrassing that his boss, Assistant Chief Yogananda Pittman, who oversaw department operations in the days before the riots, was praised by Nancy Pelosi and now finds herself in a comfortable role leading the police at the University. of California at Berkeley.

“The front line officers and supervisors were completely unprepared,” Johnson told Carlson.

“We had no idea we were going to face what we faced that day.”

Carlson broadcast footage of Johnson appearing to help protect members of Congress inside the building when it was stormed.

Johnson was suspended the day after the riot, when footage of him wearing the MAGA cap emerged.

He then resigned, believing he had no future on the force.

Carlson featured Johnson diligently doing his job.

‘Around 2 o’clock I heard an officer say that the Capitol was breached. So I ran inside to help,” Johnson said, adding that he locked the doors to keep political leaders safe.

He then radioed his bosses for help.

“I said something to the effect that we need direction,” Johnson said.

‘”What do you want me to do?” Nobody answered.

Johnson continued: “I was requesting permission to evacuate the senate side, the senate chambers, because I had a clear line of sight to get them out the senate door, and I didn’t get permission.

‘The dispatcher called a couple of times to see if he could get permission.

‘No response.’

He said that his superiors failed, so he had to take the initiative.

“The person I thought was going to authorize the evacuation didn’t,” Johnson said.

‘I wanted to get those members of Congress out as quickly as possible.

That’s why I started those evacuations.

He said he deliberately ignored the chain of command and standard procedures.

“Me being disciplined, it wasn’t as important as not keeping members of Congress and their staff safe.”

Carlson asked him about the moment he put on the MAGA cap.

“There was a protester to my right, and he leaned over and put the MAGA hat on me,” said Johnson, a self-proclaimed Biden voter.

“He asked me and I told him I’d like to keep it because the hat is going to help me.”

Carlson said: ‘It’s your passport through the crowd.’ Johnson agreed.

“I thought if I had my hat on it would be easier for me to make my way through the crowd.

“It was basically self-preservation and de-escalation and I needed to climb those steps.

“I couldn’t say what would have happened walking through that crowd without him.”

Johnson said he was never contacted by the January 6 Committee, even though he wanted to testify about what he had seen.

“I wondered why every day,” he said.

“And every day I might have a different answer, but I saw how much they focused on Donald Trump, and not on the failures of the Capitol Police.”

Asked by Carlson why the rioters were at the Capitol, Johnson said that some wanted to be violent, but others believed they were acting patriotically.

‘I think some people there had planned to be violent. Some people may have turned violent after what they were going through.

‘I think people wanted to support their president.

“Some of those people just wanted to support him and some of those people didn’t commit violence, and some of those people didn’t plan it.”