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Tucker Carlson
stated on May 9, 2024 in an Instagram post:

Lyme disease became endemic because of U.S. government bioweapons labs.

By Sofia Ahmed • May 16, 2024
Tucker Carlson
stated on February 6, 2024 in a video posted on X.:

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, “not a single Western journalist has bothered to interview Putin.”

By Madison Czopek • February 8, 2024
Tucker Carlson
stated on January 17, 2024 in a video:

“In August 2023, illegal immigration outpaced American births.”

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • January 25, 2024
Tucker Carlson
stated on March 6, 2023 in a segment on "Tucker Carlson Tonight":

Capitol Police officers “helped” QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley and “acted as his tour guides.”

By Madison Czopek • March 8, 2023
Tucker Carlson
stated on February 6, 2023 in in a TV segment:

“No administration has ever looked less like America, just by the numbers, than the Biden administration.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • February 17, 2023
Tucker Carlson
stated on January 9, 2023 in in a broadcast:

The election in Brazil “was very clearly a rigged election.”

By Jeff Cercone • January 12, 2023
Tucker Carlson
stated on November 8, 2022 in election night coverage on Fox News:

“Electronic voting machines didn't allow people to vote” in Maricopa County, Arizona.

By Jon Greenberg • November 9, 2022
Tucker Carlson
stated on October 27, 2022 in a TV segment:

The United States is "about to run out of diesel fuel ... by the Monday of Thanksgiving week."

By Andy Nguyen • November 7, 2022
Tucker Carlson
stated on October 18, 2022 in a tweet:

“The CDC is about to add the COVID vaccine to the childhood immunization schedule, which would make the vax mandatory for kids to attend school.”

By Madison Czopek • October 20, 2022
Tucker Carlson
stated on June 10, 2022 in in a TV segment:

“Not a single person in the crowd on January 6 was found to be carrying a firearm. Not one.”

By Samantha Putterman • June 13, 2022
Tucker Carlson
stated on November 1, 2021 in a documentary film:

Federal agents directly incited people on Jan. 6, 2021, and "intentionally entrapped" American citizens.

By Samantha Putterman • November 4, 2021
Tucker Carlson
stated on November 1, 2021 in his documentary series "Patriot Purge":

“Jan. 6 is being used as a pretext to strip millions of Americans, disfavored Americans, of their core constitutional rights.”

By Bill McCarthy • November 2, 2021
Tucker Carlson
stated on November 2, 2021 in a documentary film:

“DEA agent Mark Ibrahim was forced from his job and later indicted simply because he was near the Capitol protest on Jan. 6.”

By Samantha Putterman • November 2, 2021
Tucker Carlson
stated on July 14, 2021 in a TV segment:

“It now appears there actually was meaningful voter fraud in Fulton County, Georgia, last November. That is not a conspiracy theory. It's true.”

By Bill McCarthy • July 20, 2021
Tucker Carlson
stated on June 28, 2021 in a show:

“In Texas, the power companies have automatically raised the temperature of people's thermostats in the middle of a heatwave without their permission."

By Brandon Mulder • July 9, 2021
Tucker Carlson
stated on May 5, 2021 in a TV segment:

“Between late December of 2020 and last month, a total of 3,362 people apparently died after getting the COVID vaccine in the United States … The actual number is almost certainly higher.”

By Bill McCarthy • May 6, 2021
Tucker Carlson
stated on April 13, 2021 in a TV segment:

“Maybe (the COVID-19 vaccine) doesn't work, and they're simply not telling you that.”

By Bill McCarthy • April 15, 2021
Tucker Carlson
stated on February 22, 2021 in a TV segment:

"There's no evidence that white supremacists were responsible for what happened on Jan. 6. That's a lie.”

By Bill McCarthy • February 23, 2021
Tucker Carlson
stated on February 16, 2021 in a TV segment:

“Unbeknownst to most people, the Green New Deal came to Texas; the power grid in the state became totally reliant on windmills.”

By Noah Y. Kim • February 17, 2021
Tucker Carlson
stated on November 2, 2020 in a Fox News broadcast:

“When large numbers of people in Butler (Pa.) started killing themselves with narcotics, no one in Washington or New York or Los Angeles said a word about it.”

By Jon Greenberg • November 5, 2020
Tucker Carlson
stated on October 13, 2020 in a TV segment:

According to a recent CDC report, "almost everyone — 85% — who got the coronavirus in July was wearing a mask, and they were infected anyway. So clearly (wearing a mask) doesn’t work the way they tell us it works.”

By Bill McCarthy • October 15, 2020
Tucker Carlson
stated on August 11, 2020 in a TV segment:

Says Kamala Harris "said she believed that Joe Biden committed sexual assault against various women.”

By Bill McCarthy • August 13, 2020
Tucker Carlson
stated on July 7, 2020 in a TV segment:

“To children and the vast majority of young and middle-aged adults and the vast majority of teachers, (the coronavirus) poses virtually zero threat."

By Bill McCarthy • July 13, 2020
Tucker Carlson
stated on April 27, 2020 in a TV segment:

“The (corona)virus just isn’t nearly as deadly as we thought it was.”

By Bill McCarthy • May 4, 2020
Tucker Carlson
stated on December 15, 2019 in an interview with the Atlantic:

Says the Potomac River "has gotten dirtier and dirtier and dirtier and dirtier. I go down there and that litter is left almost exclusively by immigrants."

By Bill McCarthy • December 18, 2019
Tucker Carlson
stated on November 7, 2019 in Tucker Carlson Tonight:

Says Marie Yovanovitch was "dishonest" when she claimed under oath that she never personally responded to an email from a Democratic staffer. But "in fact, it turns out that she did respond."

By Miriam Valverde • November 15, 2019
Tucker Carlson
stated on September 10, 2019 in a TV segment:

Says John Bolton "fundamentally was a man of the left."

By Bill McCarthy • September 13, 2019
Tucker Carlson
stated on February 8, 2018 in a tweet:

"There are more immigrants in our country right now than any other time."

By Miriam Valverde • February 13, 2018
Tucker Carlson
stated on August 15, 2017 in comments on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight':

"The United States ended slavery around the world, and maybe we should get some credit for that, too."

By Joshua Gillin • August 17, 2017
Tucker Carlson
stated on October 2, 2014 in a broadcast of Fox News' "Outnumbered":

Democrats give "Newports to the homeless to get them to the polls."

By Jon Greenberg • October 28, 2014

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