Tucker Carlson has sensationally claimed that the Capitol riot was organized by the FBI "according to government documents".

The Fox News host made the claim on Tuesday, June 15, and said that the January 6 insurrection was caused to "suppress political dissent."

The riot was caused by Trump supporters who believed that he had wrongfully been denied victory in the 2020 election.

Right-wing news outlets claimed that the riot was, in fact, caused by Antifa who were attempting to enable fascism, but Tucker Carlson believes it was a different group entirely that was responsible, Reuters reports.

Listen to Carlson accuse the FBI of organizing the riot below:

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Carlson asked: "Who did shoot Ashli Babbitt and why don't we know? Are anonymous federal agents now allowed to kill unarmed women who protest the regime? That's okay now? No, it's not okay."

He then slammed the government for allegedly "hiding the identity of many law enforcement officers present at the Capitol on January 6."

Carlson alleged that some of those responsible were not facing any consequences for their actions, saying: "Strangely, some of the key people who participated on January 6 have not been charged.

"Look at the documents, the government calls those people unindicted coconspirators. What does that mean? Well, it means that potentially every single case they were FBI operatives. Really? In the Capitol on January 6?"

However, despite a lack of action being taken against that FBI, Carlson argued that those who were held responsible for the attack were being treated unduly harshly and spared a thought for those in "solitary confinement."

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He then directly criticized the FBI for their alleged involvement, saying: "They were all certainly working for the FBI. So FBI operatives were organizing the attack on the Capitol, on Jan. 6, according to government documents!"

Despite Carlson making these claims, there is no documentary evidence to support them.

He concluded his comments on the matter by saying: "If you empower the government to violate civil liberties in pursuit of a foreign terror organization, it's just a matter of time before ambitious politicians use those same mechanisms to suppress political dissent. And that is what we are seeing now."

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Tucker Carlson says Capitol riot was organized by FBI ‘according to government documents’