Former President Donald Trump has subpoenaed Fox News in an effort to attain an unaired interview with former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund. The interview was originally intended to air as part of then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s investigation into Jan 6 and the more than 40,000 hours of footage he was granted access to. The National Pulse yesterday released parts of the interview, with further clips due on Thursday afternoon. One item of particular interest to Donald Trump’s legal team is comments that Sund may have made to Carlson regarding the presence of federal agents in the crowd on Jan 6. In an interview with English comedian Russell Brand, Carlson stated that Sund believed federal agents were among the crowds protesting the 2020 Presidential election result: “I never thought there was a false flag or anything like that. I’m not a conspiracist by temperament… And then I interviewed the chief of the Capitol Police, Steven Sund – in an interview that was never aired on Fox by the way. I was fired before it could air… He was the chief of the Capitol Police on January 6 and he said ‘Oh yeah the crowd was filled with Federal agents.’ He would know of course because he was in charge of security at the site. So the more time that has passed, now it has been two-and-a-half years, it becomes really obvious that core claims they made about January 6 were lies.” Carlson’s interview with Sund could be a useful piece of evidence for Trump’s legal defense, casting further doubt on official government claims about the circumstances of that days events. The unaired Sund interview appears to be a part of a broader legal strategy by Trump to demonstrate that the Jan 6 prosecution is not just a question of the former President’s First Amendment protected right to free speech but also to call in to question the partisan media narrative surrounding the 2020 Presidential election and Jan 6 itself.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/08/03/trump-subpoenas-unaired-tucker-interview-with-ex-capitol-police-chief/