A Thursday evening information temporary on Fox News contained a amazing declare — that the network doesn’t have sufficient details to establish what motivated a guy spouting appropriate-wing conspiracy theories to shut down a significant portion of Washington, DC, all-around the Library of Congress by saying to have a bomb previously in the day.

“So considerably, no term on a possible motive,” claimed anchor Jackie Ibanez at the conclusion of a 15-next temporary that amounted to the entirety of Fox News’s Thursday evening protection of the incident.

The brevity could conceivably be excused: No a person was hurt, and US Capitol Law enforcement announced Thursday evening they experienced cleared the suspect’s black pickup truck. And Fox News coated the incident as it was ongoing earlier in the day. But Ibanez’s declare about motive bears additional scrutiny.

It is accurate that immediately after the bomb risk suspect — afterwards determined as 49-calendar year-previous Floyd Ray Roseberry, of Grover, North Carolina — surrendered to regulation enforcement, law enforcement explained “we do not know what his motives are at this time.” (Fox News didn’t quickly answer to an inquiry from Vox asking the network to clarify Ibanez’s “no phrase on a achievable motive” report.)

But Ibanez’s remark could