US Senator, Capitol Police Chief Blast Tucker Carlson for Alleged Jan. 6 ‘False Narrative’

During a Senate budget hearing on April 25, a Democrat senator from Maryland and U.S. Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger took aim at former Fox News host Tucker Carlson for allegedly creating a “false narrative” with the Jan. 6 security-camera video that he broadcast in March.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) asked Manger to comment on Carlson’s use of the Jan. 6 video in his March 6 broadcast about the events of Jan. 6, 2021.

Van Hollen accused Carlson of creating a “false narrative” surrounding the events of Jan. 6, concluding that the attack on the Capitol was “mostly peaceful chaos” and that “The footage does not show an insurrection or riot in progress.”

Manger said he put out a statement the day after the March 6 broadcast, noting “how disrespectful it was to the men and women of the Capitol Police.”

The budget-hearing discussion of the Fox News host was just one example among a sea of voices reacting to the news Carlson and the network have “parted ways.”

$106 Million Budget Increase

Manger outlined his fiscal year 2024 Capitol Police budget request with a $106.3 million spending increase. The USCP budget would fund the full-time equivalent of 2,761 positions, including 596 civilian employees and 2,165 sworn officers.

The budget request would fund enhanced intelligence capabilities, a “normalization” of police staffing levels, expansion of the Dignitary Protection Division, better systems to address threats against members of Congress, better physical security to protect the Capitol, and strengthened training programs, Manger said.