In a recent discussion with Donald Trump Jr., Tucker Carlson reflected on former President Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 counts of business fraud. The Manhattan jury’s unanimous verdict came after 9.5 hours of deliberation, finding Trump guilty of covering up a hush money payment to a porn star to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Many conservatives, including Trump and Carlson, argue that this legal action is politically motivated, aiming to derail Trump’s chances of a second term. They claim that the conviction stems from a mere filing error and represents a broader attempt by Democrats to interfere with the election by tying Trump up in the legal system.
Carlson expressed a deep-seated concern about the implications of this conviction, echoing Trump’s rhetoric that the legal actions against him are an attack on his supporters and the broader conservative movement. He suggested that the same legal and political machinery could be turned against any American citizen, highlighting a perceived threat to personal freedoms and democratic norms.
During the conversation, Carlson emphasized:
“I think a lot of people yesterday when that verdict came down — I’m among them — my first reaction was, wow, they’ll actually hurt us. They would execute us — me — I’ll just say that speaking for myself. And there would be an MSNBC panel of former federal prosecutors telling their audience that I deserved it and they’d be laughing. Then Project Lincoln would send out a congratulatory tweet. And I was like, wow, there’s sort of a lack of humanity, there’s a coldness, there’s an evil under all this that I think I underestimate.”
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