Heir to a frozen food fortune and person who chews sticks of gum without removing the aluminum foil Tucker Carlson claimed that the so-called “facts” being presented by House impeachment managers are patently false because something, something George Floyd.

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Starting off by saying, “We’re not going to speculate,” Carlson then goes on to speculate that the entire impeachment charge is a fraud because “what we do know for certain is that the known facts of what happened on January 6th deviate in very important ways from the story they are now telling us, including the story they told us today in the impeachment hearing.”  Carlson didn’t explain what “deviated” from reality.

Carlson then goes on to make an audacious claim:  that George Floyd didn’t actually die from asphyxiation caused by a police officer kneeling on his back and neck, as two separate medical examinations determined.  No, Carlson says, Floyd most certainly died of a drug overdose.

“Months later, they learned that the story they told us about George Floyd’s death was an utter lie,” Carlson lied.  “There was no physical evidence that George Floyd was murdered by a cop. The autopsy showed that George Floyd almost certainly died of a drug overdose, fentanyl.”

In fact, both autopsies determined Floyd’s death was a homicide–that is, a death caused by another human being.

This would be a good time to remind our readers that according to the US judicial system, “Fox [News lawyers] persuasively [argue], that given Mr. Carlson’s reputation, any reasonable viewer ‘arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism’ about the statement he makes, “and that Carlson is not ‘stating actual facts’ about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in ‘exaggeration’ and ‘non-literal commentary.'”