How Tucker Carlson Helped Sell J.D. Vance as Trump’s Running Mate
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The former Fox News host warned Donald J. Trump that two other running-mate contenders, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota, could not be trusted.
When word got back to Tucker Carlson a few weeks ago that former President Donald J. Trump might be wavering on J.D. Vance as his running mate, Mr. Carlson intervened.
Mr. Carlson, who was visiting Australia on a speaking tour, phoned Mr. Trump and delivered an apocalyptic warning. Their conversation, according to two people briefed on the discussion, was included in an article in The New York Times exploring the yearslong process of how Mr. Vance won over Mr. Trump.
In their phone conversation in June, Mr. Carlson told Mr. Trump that another top running-mate contender, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, could not be trusted — that he would work against him and would try to lead America into nuclear war. Mr. Carlson, who declined to comment, told Mr. Trump that the other top contender, Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota, could not be trusted, either.
Mr. Carlson told Mr. Trump in that phone call that he believed that if he chose a “neocon” as his V.P. — an abbreviation for Republicans who favor using U.S. power to implant democracy abroad — then the U.S. intelligence agencies would have every incentive to assassinate Mr. Trump in order to get their preferred president.
He also warned Mr. Trump against listening to the advice of allies of Mr. Carlson’s former employer, Rupert Murdoch. “When your enemies are pushing a running mate on you,” Mr. Carlson told Mr. Trump, referring to the Murdoch empire, “it’s a pretty good sign you should ignore them.”
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Tucker Carlson says 'spiritual battle underway' in wake of Trump assassination attempt
Conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson on Monday framed the recent assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump as further evidence that evil spiritual forces are at work in the United States.
Speaking at a Heritage Foundation event during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Carlson also noted that Christians pose the greatest threat to the destructive spiritual forces that have taken different forms throughout history.
Echoing the April 2023 address he gave at The Heritage Foundation's 50th anniversary just days before his unceremonious ouster from Fox News, Carlson reiterated Monday that the increasingly irrational, violent nature of the country's political battles suggest that they run "deeper" than politics.
"I think what happened on Saturday, the assassination attempt against President Trump, reminded a lot of people, or awakened a lot of people to this. There is a spiritual battle underway," he said.
"There is no logical way to understand what we're seeing now in temporal terms, you just can't. These are not political divides. There are forces — and they're very obvious now, they've decided, for whatever reason, to take off the mask — whose only goal is chaos, violence, destruction," he continued.
Carlson went on to warn that the same dark forces that have animated revolutionary movements in the past are rearing their heads again in the U.S., and that they universally hate Christianity.
"What group do they dislike most?" he asked. "What group are they absolutely terrified of and hoping to eliminate? Well, it's Christians, that's who it is. It's Christians."
Carlson joked that it took him a decade to come to such a realization, and that he came to it "as not a particularly fervent, lifelong Christian."
"I haven't spent my life surrounded by plumes of incense deep in prayer, I spent a life in a newsroom saying the F word," he said, but added that the revolutionary, destructive forces at work in the U.S. today most hate "Christian nationalists and people who pray outside abortion clinics; people who celebrate Easter, not Trans Visibility Day."
Carlson also suggested that a "dark" warmongering attitude is rampant within the Republican Party, which he claimed is why many powerful members of the GOP hate Trump and have tried so earnestly to subvert him.
"Do you want to know what they care about? They only care about war. That's it, that's what they care about," Carlson said. He added that immigration, economic issues and Trump's "naughty mouth" are unimportant to his chief Republican opponents, who he claimed simply desire godlike power by perpetuating war.
Noting how Trump was the first president since Jimmy Carter not to start a new war or escalate a U.S. military conflict, Carlson claimed that Trump "has stood in their way."
"They want the power to kill, that's it," he said. "And that's the power everyone who wants to be God seeks to possess. That's why human sacrifice was a thing. 'I have the power to kill.' Only God has the power over life and death, and that's the power they want."
Carlson has been repeatedly stressing similar sentiments in recent months, especially since his departure from Fox News. As The Christian Post reported in March, Carlson delivered an address exhorting an audience of Republicans in Fort Worth, Texas, to realize the spiritual war behind the country's political battles.
"This is not flesh and blood at all. If you’re offended by prayer, you’re taking orders, OK? I don’t see another rational explanation for it," he said.
"You can reduce all these debates about climate, crime, all the weird sex stuff — I'm not going to dignify it with a name, I'm just gonna call it that 'weird sex stuff' — but, if they're promising you the opportunity to castrate your children, what are they really promising? No grandchildren. The end of your line," he continued.
"And Solomon [and] David would, like, instantly recognize that as an act of total war against you and your people, period," he added. "Because that's what that is."
During his Monday speech, Carlson also spoke highly of Trump's vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, and said that the ticket is effectively guaranteed to win after Trump expressed bravery and defiance after being shot at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.
"Let's be honest, Trump just won, he won," he said. "Not only did he survive an assassination attempt, he stood up without knowing whether there were other shooters there. He stood up, and faced the crowd, and raised his hand and said, 'Fight, fight, fight!' That's it. You do that, you win.
what bazaar and scary lines of thinking are pondered in Trump circles, as the dogs be wagged, and the country be snagged,
on an obstacle with beyond nefarious sought ends, as their 'Deep State' does appear to surface below,
the attempted guidance under that facade, cause who knew, this whole time
Trump was actually an agent of God....?
There are some disturbing trends in mainstream media coverage of Trump the past few days (post shooting).
I have always thought that Tucker Carlson was the puppeteer pulling the strings on Trump who is merely a political marionette of Fix News