BREAKING NEWS: Tucker Carlson Reacts To Assassination Attempt On Trump During RNC Speech

2 months ago

At the final night of the RNC on Thursday, Tucker Carlson spoke about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

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00:00Tucker Carlson.

00:02So fun!

00:06Thank you!

00:10Oh, this is wild.

00:14Thank you!

00:16I've been...

00:20Good to see you!

00:22Thank you!

00:24I feel like I know about

00:26half the people

00:28in the room.

00:30This is wild.

00:32What are you doing?

00:34Justin Wells!

00:36Thank you guys!

00:42Can I just say, Peter Navarro is back.

00:44Welcome to Peter Navarro.

00:48Suffering the fate that has happened to so many

00:50who are friends with Donald Trump.

00:52Thank you for having me.

00:54Uh...

00:56I have been to many conventions.

00:58I have never been to a more fun convention

01:00or a convention

01:02with better vibes.

01:04They literally

01:06let Navarro out of prison.

01:08First of all, thank you.

01:10This feels a lot

01:12different from what I thought it was going to feel like.

01:16I can't hear you, but I know it's something good.

01:18I know it's something good.

01:24I watched the video

01:26of what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania

01:28about 15, 50 times.

01:32I think I was one of about 8 billion people

01:34around the world who watched it.

01:36The more I watched it, the more it struck me

01:38that everything was different

01:40after that moment.

01:42Everything.

01:44This convention is different.

01:46The world is different. Donald Trump is different.

01:48When he stood up

01:50after being shot in the face,

01:52bloodied, and put his hand up,

01:54I thought at that moment

01:56that was a transformation.

01:58This was no longer a man...

02:02Well, I think that. I think it was divine intervention.

02:04But the effect that it had on Donald Trump,

02:06he was no longer

02:08just a political party's nominee

02:10or a former president

02:12or a future president.

02:14This was the leader of a nation.

02:20I think there's a difference.

02:22I've spent most of my life

02:24in Washington where the president

02:26is at the top of the pyramid. Everyone wants to be the president.

02:28But if you think about it,

02:30the presidency comes with great power, obviously.

02:32But if you think about it, that is a title

02:34that is bestowed by a process

02:36of some sort that can be subverted.

02:40In the end, it does not

02:42confer by itself, as no title

02:44does, legitimacy.

02:46Just because you call yourself the president

02:48doesn't mean

02:50that much inherently. I can call

02:52my dog the CEO of

02:54Hewlett-Packard. It doesn't mean

02:56she is.

02:58It's true.

03:00And you hate to say it,

03:02but it is also true as a fact

03:04that you could take, I don't know, a mannequin, a dead

03:06person, and make him president.

03:08No, you could. You could.

03:10I'm just saying, theoretically possible.

03:12With enough

03:14cheating,

03:16that could happen.

03:18But

03:20being a leader

03:22is very different.

03:24It's not a title.

03:26It's organic.

03:28You can't name someone a leader.

03:30A leader

03:32is the bravest man.

03:34That's who the leader is.

03:36That is true

03:38among human organizations.

03:40This is a law of nature.

03:42And in that moment,

03:44Donald Trump, months before the presidential election,

03:46became the leader of this nation.

03:48That was

03:50the most obvious to me.

03:52And I have to say,

03:54you know, I think

03:56it changed him.

03:58I reached out

04:00to Trump within hours of it that night.

04:02And what he said to me that night,

04:04having just been shot in the face, he said

04:06not a single word about himself.

04:08He said only

04:10how amazed he was and how proud

04:12he was of the crowd, which didn't run.

04:14And I

04:16thought two things.

04:18The first thing I thought was, well, of course they didn't

04:20run.

04:22His courage gave them heart.

04:24A leader's courage gives courage to his people.

04:28And the second thing

04:30I thought was,

04:32this is the selfish guy I've been hearing about for nine years?

04:34Really? Not a word about himself?

04:36About his people. Period.

04:38And the second thing I noticed,

04:40which I don't think anyone has remarked upon in public, but I'm just going

04:42to since I don't have a script. Like, why not?

04:44Is that

04:46he turned down

04:48the most obvious opportunity in politics

04:50to inflame the nation after being

04:52shot. To inflame

04:54the nation, which is an opportunity

04:56that almost every other politician I've ever met

04:58and certainly his opponents would have taken instantly.

05:00And they would have said, well, what is this?

05:02How did he get shot?

05:04Like, how did this happen?

05:06And those are real questions that we have

05:08to get to the bottom of. But in

05:10the moments, the days,

05:12the week after the shooting,

05:14he did not say that.

05:16He did his best to bring the country together.

05:18And I thought, this is the divisive figure? This is the irresponsible

05:20person? No.

05:22This is the most responsible

05:24unifying behavior of a leader

05:26I think I've ever seen.

05:28So the question is,

05:30where is

05:32he leading us?

05:34And I could go on for hours, but let me

05:36just sum it up. I do think

05:38the entire point

05:40from the famous escalator ride

05:42nine years ago until today

05:44of Donald Trump's public life

05:46has been to remind us of one fact,

05:48which is a leader's

05:50duty is to his people,

05:52to his country, and to no other.

05:54That's the point. That's the only

05:56point. And another word for this

05:58is democracy.

06:00Democracy, in case you're

06:02a little sick of being beaten

06:04in the face with democracy on television,

06:06actual democracy is the proposition

06:08that the citizens of a country own that country.

06:10They're not renters, they're not

06:12serfs, they're not slaves, they are the owners

06:14of the country. And for

06:16that to be true,

06:18their leaders have

06:20to represent them, which is another way

06:22of saying they have to do

06:24what the people want them to do.

06:26Or a close

06:28approximation thereof.

06:30But if they completely ignore what people

06:32want, not just one year, but

06:34generationally, say for 50

06:36years, then it may be,

06:38I don't know what, it's not a democracy.

06:40And so I think the entire Trump

06:42project, paradoxically, is attacked as an enemy

06:44of democracy, is to return democracy

06:46to the United States. Hey,

06:48let's pay attention

06:50to what people actually

06:52want.

06:54And the lack of interest in that

06:56question in Washington is something that ultimately

06:58drove me out of the city after 35 years.

07:00Lawmakers stepping

07:02over the prostrate bodies of their

07:04fellow citizens OD'ing on drugs

07:06to go cast

07:08votes to send money to some foreign country.

07:10Yeah,

07:12actually, we've lost

07:14more Americans

07:16from drugs in the past

07:18four years than we lost in World War II.

07:20Yeah.

07:22Our bloodiest war. More than we

07:24lost in World War II.

07:26Does anybody

07:28care? It is pathetic.

07:30It is pathetic.

07:32And do you hear a single word from Washington

07:34about doing anything about it? We know where

07:36the drugs are coming from. We know the supply

07:38routes. The U.S. military spent billions bombing

07:40the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

07:42You don't see our commander-in-chief suggesting

07:44that we use our military to protect our country

07:46or the lives of its citizens. No.

07:48That's for Ukraine.

07:50And it's too much, actually.

07:52It's too insulting.

07:54It's too insulting. It's a middle

07:56finger in the face of every American.

07:58It's a very clear

08:00statement, which is

08:02unmistakable. And that is

08:04we don't care about you.

08:08And Donald Trump,

08:10whatever you say about him, and I think

08:12he's a wonderful person. I know him well. By the way,

08:14the funniest person I've ever met in my life,

08:16actually. You can't be funny

08:18without perspective or without

08:20empathy, which is true.

08:22But everything else about Trump aside,

08:24he actually cares. Because he's

08:26interested in the people who live here

08:28because that's his job. A father's

08:30job, his duty is to his family.

08:32An officer's duty is

08:34to his men. A president's duty is to his citizens.

08:36And he

08:38seems to be the only one who thinks that.

08:40And in his choice

08:42for vice president,

08:44J.D. Vance, he's made that really clear.

08:48J.D. Vance, I'll say this about him,

08:50is a thoroughly decent man, and I'll just admit

08:52it, a friend of mine, one of the very few

08:54politicians in Washington who actually

08:56is very close to his own wife, which is

08:58wonderful to see.

09:00And she's wonderful,

09:02actually.

09:04But J.D. Vance

09:06has views that are closer

09:08to Trump's voters than anyone else

09:10in Washington in office.

09:12Therefore, he is the vice

09:14president. That's called democracy.

09:18So I will stop on just one point.

09:20And that is, what's happened

09:22over the past month,

09:24since the debate,

09:28and particularly on Saturday in Butler,

09:30I think a lot of people

09:32are wondering, what is this? This doesn't look

09:34like politics. Something bigger is going

09:36on here. I think even people who don't

09:38believe in God are beginning to think, well, maybe

09:40there's something to this.

09:42Actually.

09:44And I'm starting to think,

09:46I'm starting to think

09:48it's going to be okay, actually.

09:50I do think that.

09:52The day after the midterm elections

09:54in 2018,

09:56Antifa

09:58came to my house.

10:00The Democratic Party's militia.

10:02I was at work. It was obvious when I was at work because it was

10:04public. My wife was home alone.

10:06They tried to come in through the front door. They terrorized her.

10:08She hid in our pantry.

10:10It was on television. It was horrible, actually.

10:12I'm not whining about it.

10:14I wasn't getting shot in the face.

10:16But it wrecked our day.

10:18And the next morning,

10:20we're lying in bed, and the phone rings

10:22for my wife, and it's Donald Trump,

10:24who's not like a regular text buddy of

10:26Donald Trump's. She picks it up.

10:28Hello?

10:30Susie, it's Donald Trump, and it's coming through.

10:32I can hear it. I'm lying in bed.

10:34And the first thing he says is,

10:36I'm going to stand guard outside your house.

10:38And she goes, oh, that's

10:40so nice. And he says,

10:42I'll never forget this as long as I live.

10:44He says, you know, there's a lot of hate out there.

10:46And she said, you know, there is, Mr. President.

10:48And then he says, but there's a lot of love.

10:50There's a lot of love.

10:52And we are

10:54seeing that love.

10:56I don't think it's human love.

11:02And I'll just stop with this. I'm not always

11:04convinced that I'm on the right side. I've been on the wrong side

11:06many times. You'll never hear me say

11:08I'm on God's side, or

11:10God's with me, or even I'm with God.

11:12I want to be. Not sure

11:14I am. But I will say this

11:16unequivocally and conclusively.

11:18God is among us

11:20right now.

11:22And I think that's enough.

11:24God bless you.

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