[CodeJockey]

why is the release of these tapes suddenly so consequential in this environment?

The answer is a simple one. Because they are contradictory to the fabricated narrative created by the deep state and propagated by the media. That narrative was Trump organized a militia of MAGA nationals who mission was to overturn the election results.

A narrative so absurd that only a liberal democrat could buy into.

[nathanbedford]

In other words the key to the Pelosi narrative is to contrive a conspiracy of Donald Trump to fling a mob at the capital to subvert an election process but this simple visual record of Tucker Carlson's effectively rebuts that narrative.

Tucker's video reveals a bunch of rather overweight, middle-aged, curious but patriotic middle Americans bumbling their well-intentioned way through the nation's capital. Hardly the stuff of revolution.

Okay.