'In That Moment Donald Trump... Became The Leader Of This Nation': Tucker Carlson

2 months ago

During his speech at the 2024 Republican National Convention on Thursday night, Tucker Carlson reflected on the impacts of the attempted Trump assassination.

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00:00Tucker Carlson

00:05Thank you

00:10This is wild

00:14Thank you

00:16I've been

00:19Good to see you

00:22Thank you, I

00:24Feel like I know about

00:27Half the people in the room

00:31What are you doing Justin Wells, thank you guys

00:41Can I just say Peter Navarro is back welcome to Peter Navarro

00:47Suffering the fate that has happened to so many who are friends with Donald Trump. Thank you for having me. I have

00:56Been to many conventions. I have never been to a more fun convention or a convention with better vibes

01:05They literally let Navarro out of prison first of all, thank you

01:10This feels a lot different from what I thought it was gonna feel like I

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

01:18I

01:24Watched I watched the video of what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania about 15 50 times. I

01:31think I was one of about 8 billion people around the world who watched it and

01:35The more I watched it the more it struck me that

01:39Everything was different

01:41After that moment everything and this convention is different. The nation is different. The world is different Donald Trump is different

01:48When he stood up after being shot in the face bloodied and put his hand up. I

01:54Thought at that moment

01:56That was a transformation. This was no longer a man

02:01Well, I think that I think it was divine intervention, but the effect that it had on Donald Trump

02:07He was no longer just a political party's nominee or a former president or a future president

02:13This was the leader of a nation

02:16And and I think there's it I think there's a difference I

02:21Think I mean, I'm I've spent most of my life in Washington where that you know

02:25The president is that at the top of the pyramid never wants to be the president

02:28But if you think about in the presidency comes with great power, obviously, but if you think about it, that is a title

02:33that is bestowed by a process of some sort that can be subverted and

02:40In the end it does not confer by itself as no title does legitimacy

02:45Just because you call yourself the president

02:49Doesn't mean that much inherently I can call my dog the CEO of Hewlett-Packard. It doesn't mean she is

02:58Now it's true and

03:00You hate to say it

03:02But it is also true is a fact that you could take I don't know a mannequin a dead person and make him president

03:07If you know you could you could I'm just saying theoretically possible

03:13with enough

03:14With enough cheating that could happen

03:19But being a leader is very different

03:23It's not a title. It's organic

03:26you can't name someone a leader a

03:29leader is

03:31The bravest man, that's who the leader is

03:35That is true in all human organizations

03:39This is a law of nature and in that moment

03:43Donald Trump months before the presidential election became the leader of this nation

03:48That was the most obvious to me

'In That Moment Donald Trump... Became The Leader Of This Nation': Tucker Carlson

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