Tucker Carlson’s release of formerly hidden January 6th footage has caused quite a stir since Monday evening. As RedState reported, major narratives were called into question via the new revelations, including the sone surrounding the death of Brian Sicknick

Carlson revealed that he was walking around unharmed an hour after he was supposedly beaten by Trump supporters. Why did the January 6th committee fail to mention that after spending over a year supposedly investigating the events at the Capitol? We know the answer to that, and they aren’t stopping now.

According to Rep. Bennie Thompson (Breitbart), who headed up the committee, he and his colleagues didn’t

Thompson also asserted it was “not true” the committee on which he served as chair selectively edited security footage to sell the “insurrection” image.

The January 6 Committee also claimed Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MS) appeared to run out of the chamber like a coward when the riots sparked, but as the footage from Carlson showed, he was the last lawmaker escorted out of the chamber.

“I stand by the tape,” Thompson told Picket.

As Breitbart News reported last year, the January 6 Committee deceptively edited a video to appear as if former President Donald Trump had praised the rioters when he did not.

“The committee played Trump’s comments — which referred to his peaceful rally, over a mile away — over visuals of clashes between rioters and police,” said the report. “‘They were peaceful people. These were great people,’ Trump was heard saying.”

Thompson is clearly lying. It’s not debatable that the January 6th committee deceptively and selectively edited video clips to push a specific, misleading narrative. In one instance, mentioned above, they put a clip of Sen. Josh Hawley on a few-second loop to accompany the assertion that he ran out of the Capitol like a coward. The full video showed Hawley only left after being ordered to by the USCP, and he was one of the last out of the chamber, hardly evidence of cowardice.

So while Thompson can “stand by the tape,” the reality is that he and his colleagues chose to cover up the vast majority of “the tape.” They could have presented an honest portrait of what happened, which was a protest that got out of control and was marked by lots of confusion. There was never any evidence of a planned insurrection nor was there ever any real danger of our “democracy” being overthrown. Those were partisan narratives pushed for political gain, gladly gobbled up by a compliant and sympathetic press.

Further, part of the dishonesty of the January 6th committee comes from videos of law enforcement actions they chose to keep under lock and key. The entire point of House oversight is to oversee departments they have control over. One of those was the USCP. Yet, the USCP went largely unmentioned in the final report as far as critiques go, a fact that even had some of the January 6th committee investigators fretting.

The January 6th committee is guilty on multiple fronts of deception. They refused to give an honest account, which would have included the riot itself, by editing footage in a way to make things seem far worse and more organized than they were. Past that, they purposely obfuscated footage that would have given Americans a clearer understanding of what did and didn’t happen. For that, they deserve your scorn. That Thompson would continue to lie about it is just the cherry on top.