In a new three-part documentary series, Fox News host Tucker Carlson pushes the baseless conspiracy that the FBI itself incited the Capitol riot.

       “Most Americans probably assume the chaos of January 6 was the result of intelligence failures or of simple government incompetence,” Mr Carlson says in Part I of the series, titled Patriot Purge. “But direct incitement by federal agents? The intentional entrapment of American citizens? No decent person wants to believe that. But increasingly there’s evidence it is true.”

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