In February, we learned that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made the very troubling decision to release U.S. Capitol surveillance footage from the Jan. 6 insurrection exclusively to Tucker Carlson of Fox News. McCarthy said he was doing it because the tapes belonged to the people — which makes what he did utterly incomprehensible.
That incomprehensibility is only reinforced by the parallel drama taking place in court, where evidence in the defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox, scheduled for an April trial, is providing truly shocking news.
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