Without evidence, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has suggested that former President Donald Trump will be assassinated. Tuckems even brought that up to the twice-impeached four times indicted former President while the other GOP candidates participated in a debate that Trump refused to take part in. He did it again during an interview with comedian and podcaster Adam Carolla when asked what the future holds for the one-term President.
"If you begin with criticism, then you go to protest, then you go to impeachment, now you go to indictment and none of them work, Carlson told Carolla, according to NBC News. What's next? Graph it out, man. We're speeding towards assassination, obviously. … They have decided — permanent Washington, both parties have decided — that there's something about Trump that's so threatening to them, they just can't have him."
This isn't good in our toxic environment.
Daniel Jones, the President of the nonpartisan research organization Advance Democracy, said Carlson's comments are an example of the kind of rhetoric that can incite real-world violence.
"Those of us who follow and track extremism have seen that the rhetoric around the indictments of Trump is very similar to the rhetoric we saw prior to the Capitol insurrection," Jones said. "I think everyone in this space is concerned about what the next 12 to 18 months look like."
In the interview with Tucker on the night of the GOP debate, Trump was boasting about his poll numbers when the former Fox News host suddenly cut him off.
"Can I ask you—that gets back to my original question," he said. "If the protests didn't work, and you got elected anyway; the impeachment didn't work, twice; indictment is not working ... If you chart it out, it's an escalation, is what I'm saying. So what's next, after trying to put you in prison for the rest of your life? That's not working. Don't they have to kill you now?"
What a ghoul. It's almost as if Tucker wants it to happen for the ratings. And maybe Putin, because this is getting a lot of play on Russian state TV!
