Tucker Carlson warned last year that the United States was” speeding toward” past president Donald Trump’s death, which sparked the liberal media’s reaction and tipped off his fears as a conspiracy theory.
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Trump was almost assassinated late Saturday afternoon in Butler, Pennsylvania, during a campaign march.
” If you begin with criticism, then you go to rally, then you go to prosecution, now you go to prosecution and none of them work. What’s future? Graph it out, person. We’re speeding towards death, obviously”, he said in an appointment with actor and blogger Adam Carolla. ” They have decided — permanent Washington, both parties have decided — that there’s something about Trump that’s so threatening to them, they just ca n’t have him”.
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NBC News accused Carlson of stoking theories.
According to the channel,” the responses have been picked up by other internet personalities on the far right, including former Fox News host Dan Bongino and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones,” who currently posts content on Rumble, an online video app that hosts far-right characters.
The most recent episode of Bongino’s podcast is titled” Speeding Towards Assassination”? He asserts without any supporting evidence in the episode description published on the Apple Podcasts platform that the “plot to take out Trump is metastasizing.” Bongino’s show is among the most popular on podcasts in Apple’s rankings, according to Chartable, a podcast analytics company.
Trump has long been seen as the target of a sizable plot carried out in part by the Democratic establishment, the media, and the far-right, among conspiratorial and conspiracy theories. The former president has embraced this worldview, referring to himself as a “victim” and the center of a “witch hunt”.
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The article went on to claim that Carlson’s warning would incite violence from Trump supporters.
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.
According to Jones,” Those of us who follow and monitor extremism have observed that the rhetoric surrounding Trump’s indictments is very similar to that which existed prior to the Capitol insurrection.” ” I believe everyone in this space is concerned about what the upcoming 12 to 18 months will look like.”
Forbes similarly dismissed Carlson’s claims as a” conspiracy theory”.
Former Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson has repeatedly pedaled a conspiracy theory that Donald Trump will be the target of an assassination plot, most recently saying in an interview the U. S. is” speeding toward” the former president’s assassination—an unfounded claim amplified by other right-wing media personalities.
As did HuffPost:
Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host, made a wild conspiracy theory known during a podcast interview where he claimed that” they” will try to kill Donald Trump.
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Business Insider also participated:
Tucker Carlson falsely claimed that the political establishment intended to assassinate former president Donald Trump because they” just ca n’t have” him as president once more.
