Tucker Carlson Wanted to Spin a Conspiracy Theory With Jan. 6 Tapes by Finding an FBI Agent in the Crowd, Producer Says (Video)
thewrap.comFired Fox News producer Abby Grossberg says Tucker Carlson was hell-bent on finding video evidence of an FBI agent in the crowd of the Jan.
6 riots in order to spin a conspiracy theory he could feature on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” Grossberg, who is suing Fox News for alleged discrimination, appeared Tuesday on MSNBC, opening up about her time as a talent booker on the show. “I found it difficult to cover the kind of stories that they wanted me to cover,” Grossberg said. “I wasn’t expecting it.
Maybe I should’ve. That’s what some people say.“For example, right toward the end of my time there, when the January 6 tapes were coming out, Tucker was very set on finding an FBI person who was implanted in the crowd and spinning this conspiracy that they were ultimately the ones responsible for the Capitol attack, not Fox News, as they’re about to go into the Dominion trial, that it was really the FBI that set up this thing, not Fox, telling people that the election is rigged and the voting machines did it,” Grossberg said. “When I went back to them, and said, ‘Look, there’s no conspiracy theory here.
I called this attorney that’s representing one of the Proud Boys’ and he flat-out told me, on two occasions, ‘there is no conspiracy.
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