I normally write on foreign policy issues. However, I was struck by the furious Twitter reaction which met Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show on Wednesday evening.

At specific contention was Carlson’s linking of the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump to the death of George Floyd. Carlson suggested that both circumstances reflect a concealment of the facts by anti-conservative movements in media and politics. Carlson asserted that George Floyd, the black man whose May 2020 death while being arrested sparked nationwide protests and riots, did not die as a specific result of police criminality. Instead, Carlson suggested that “the autopsy showed that George Floyd almost certainly died of a drug overdose, Fentanyl.” The Fox News host says that the issue of fentanyl in Floyd’s system was disregarded by the media, and that this helped fuel the nationwide riots.