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Fox News host Tucker Carlson slammed Rep. Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) new pick for a "security review" of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot as "unhinged" on Wednesday's "Tucker Carlson Tonight."
Pelosi has selected retired Gen. Russel Honore to conduct the investigation. Honore has criticized the Second Amendment, made accusations of conspiratorial activities by the sergeant at arms and other law enforcement officers, and used foul language to describe Republicans such as Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO).
"Like so many of our country’s ex-generals, this guy is an authoritarian and an unhinged one," Carlson said. "He understands how to use force in order to achieve political objectives. And it seems like he’s being set up to use his military training against anyone who sees the world differently than he does. They’ll be reclassified as domestic terrorists."
Below is a full transcript of the segment:
Tucker Carlson: Someone called retired general Russel Honore of Louisiana will be leading a security review of what happened on Jan. 6 at the riot. Nancy Pelosi says that Gen. Honore has been "assessing our security needs by reviewing what happened on Jan. 6 and how we must ensure that it does not happen again.” But that's not right. General Honore already has come to conclusions about what happened on Jan. 6; he’s been very public about that and you should know what those conclusions are and what kind of person he is. Just because his title is “general” doesn’t mean that he’s sane, or not a wild-eyed partisan. On the day after the Capitol riot, Honore suggested that it was an inside job, and that the sergeant at arms might be implicated in the plot.
Retired Gen. Russel Honore: It was the complicit actions of the Capitol Police. The police chief has been fired, but now we need to look at a special investigation. Was he complicit, along with the sergeant of arms in the House and the Senate? It gives appearance of complicity. He complied because he might've thought 45 was coming to the Capitol and they gave way to the protesters who easily breached the Capitol. This is a crying d*** shame.
Carlson: What? Speaking of misinformation and conspiracy theories, there’s no evidence for any of that. It’s all made up; it’s crazy, but he went on. In a radio interview that same day, Gen. Honore explained that conservatives on the Capitol police force were to blame when he was asked about what happened with security. Watch this.
Honore: By a percentage, 30 to 40 percent of the line officers are Trumpsters.
Joe Madison: Alright, I got it.
Honore: That’s a fact, jack.
Carlson: How would he know that? Well of course, he doesn’t know that; he doesn’t have any idea and who you voted for is irrelevant. These are sworn peace officers, they’re doing their job, but Gen. Honore decided to attack them on the basis of speculation about their political beliefs. This is a problem that this guy would be in charge of anything, and that problem goes beyond Gen. Honore prejudging what happened at the Capitol on the basis of no knowledge. Like so many of our country’s ex-generals, this guy is an authoritarian and an unhinged one. He understands how to use force in order to achieve political objectives. And it seems like he’s being set up to use his military training against anyone who sees the world differently than he does. They’ll be reclassified as domestic terrorists.
Who are these people and what threat do they pose? Well according to Gen. Honore, these threats include the Constitution and our Second Amendment, for real! He believes that your right to defend yourself is dangerous. He said that and we're quoting here: we can’t permit "Second Amendment rights at First Amendment protests.” Really? Constitutional scholar, are you? Imagine a public figure with a "general" in front of his name making that statement. This is the guy Nancy Pelosi wants in charge of security. Honore’s not a fan of the First Amendment either, by the way. On Twitter, he attacked this network; he even told people to stop buying the -- we can't use it; profanity -- the “crappy” stocks of any company that advertises on Fox News, talking on the stock price of advertisers. He retweeted posts accusing the social media site Parler of being, and we're quoting now, 100% complicit in the Jan. 6 riot. This is the guy! It’s like putting Joy Reid in charge of security; this is insane.
Gen. Honore believes that elected members of Congress, people like U.S. representative Lauren Boebert, shouldn’t be allowed to fly on commercial aircraft because of her political views, “put her" on a "no-fly list.” He said something similar about Sen. Josh Hawley, the senator from Missouri: “this little peace of" crap "with his Yale law degree should be run out of D.C. and disbarred ASAP.“ Run out of D.C. -- really, what do you mean by that? Run out of D.C. and disbarred. This is crazy. But this is the guy Nancy Pelosi has leading the security response to the Capitol riot. This should really worry you. Is this really about what happened in the Capitol on Jan. 6? No! It’s about you, and your rights, rights that people like Gen. Honore, and Nancy Pelosi view as the greatest threat of all.