Laura Ingraham on Wednesday moved from the Nashville mass shooting to downplaying the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots as “old ladies walking through the halls of Congress taking selfies.” (See the video below.)
The Fox News host mocked President Joe Biden’s call for Congress to enact an assault weapons ban after the 19th school shooting this year. A shooter killed three children and three staff members at Covenant School in Nashville on Monday.
Ingraham segued to blaming Democrats and Black Lives Matter for the “soft-on-crime” policy. He then showed a clip edited by Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) appeared to say that the 1,000-plus arrests of pro-Donald Trump riots could affect Washington, DC, crime statistics.
“Democrats believe that old women walking the halls of Congress taking selfies are a bigger threat than murderers and repeat violent offenders,” Ingraham said. “America deserves the straight facts, not a hidden agenda.”
This will be the same Laura Ingraham who reportedly texted the then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows during January 6 violence to urge action from the lame-duck Trump. “Mark, the president should tell the people in the Capitol to go home. This is hurting us all. He is ruining his legacy.” Her request wasn’t the only one from the famous Fox News host that day.
The rejection of the conservative channel on January 6 has advanced more than two years later. Earlier in March, host Tucker Carlson showed cherry-picked security video clips of insurrectionist mob moments and compared them to tourist visits.
The rioters injured about 140 police officers, according to the Department of Justice. At least 325 people were arrested on charges of assaulting, resisting or obstructing police or workers.