Here's Lou Dobbs and Rep. Mo Brooks baselessly speculating that the hundreds of insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol today actually may have included antifa false flag elements.
Now Sarah Palin, on a Fox "news" show, says "we don't know who all were the instigators in this of these horrible things that happen today, I think a lot of it is the antifa folks" per "pictures she was sent, no response at all from Martha MacCallum.

There is no Fox "news" side.
Lou Dobbs was more skeptical of this bullshit that MacCallum, who Fox bills as one of its flagship anchors.
"Maybe there were antifa infiltrators" just jumped to Tucker Carlson's show.
Fox's senior political analyst. Image
Now Hannity floats the possibility that the crowd was infiltrated by "bad actors" who might have been "radical left."
Laura Ingraham says the insurrectionists were "antithetical to the MAGA movement" and "there are some reports that antifa sympathizers may have been sprinkled throughout the crowd."

All three Fox primetime shows have now pushed this baseless rumor.
One of Ingraham's guest also suggests that antifa infiltrators may have been involved.
More claims that antifa infiltrated the crowd from Ingraham.

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President Trump has sent 1,375 tweets in response to things he saw on his television since September 1, 2018.

Of those, 1,289 came in response to Fox News or Fox Business.

This was the last one, which set his banning in motion.
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If Fox News lets its regular primetime hosts cover an ongoing siege of the Capitol tonight, they might as well close down the news division altogether.
They're gonna do three hours of whataboutism and bad faith bullshit hosted by the president's part-time Cabinet? Really?
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Two hours debate times what, six states where Republicans have pushed false voter fraud claims, plus time to vote on each of them and time for Senators to move back and forth each time....

This could take a while...
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