Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired supposedly never-before-seen footage on Tuesday night from the shootings in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last month that involve 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse.
&#8220;The footage shows Rittenhouse running with a fire extinguisher. Rosenbaum appears and appears to chase after Rittenhouse when a single gunshot is fired,&#8221; Fox News reported. &#8220;A surrounded Rittenhouse squeezed four shots in Rosenbaum&#8217;s direction. Seconds later, three additional shots were reportedly fired by an unknown shooter. One bullet grazed Rosenbaum&#8217;s head while another penetrated his right groin, his left thigh, and his back.&#8221;
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<blockquote>TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS HOST: There was an enormous amount of video shot that night in Kenosha, mostly by citizens with iPhones. We have video of all three of the shootings Kyle Rittenhouse was involved in. Critically, we also have video of the moments that preceded those shootings, the context. We’ve already showed some of that video to you but tonight, we will show you more. New never before seen footage of Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha. Now, what you’re about to see comes from the non-profit &#8220;Fight Back&#8221; that was formed by Rittenhouse&#8217;s defamation attorney, Lynn Wood. For the last month, there&#8217;s been an enormous amount of propaganda surrounding this case and virtually all of it has come from the left. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts for example, denounced Kyle Rittenhouse as &#8216;a white supremacist domestic terrorist.&#8217;
Now, there&#8217;s no evidence that is true. There never has been any evidence, it&#8217;s a lie so far as we know. So the questions is, what else are they lying about? Tonight we will show you context from that night and we&#8217;re going to let you decide what happened. Here to begin, is video of Kyle Rittenhouse hours before the shootings took place. Now again, what you are about to see comes from a group, a nonprofit, founded by Kyle Rittenhouse&#8217;s defamation attorney. Here it is.
[BEGIN VIDEO]
NARRARATOR: To prevent the total destruction of their community, good Samaritans united to guard local businesses. Among them was 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse.
KYLE RITTENHOUSE: So people are getting injured. Our job is to protect this business and part of my job is also helping people. If there&#8217;s somebody hurt, I am running into harm’s way. That&#8217;s why I have my rifle, because I need to protect myself obviously, but I also have my med kit.
NARRARATOR: Earlier that day, Rittenhouse volunteered to remove graffiti from [a] high school in Kenosha.
[END VIDEO]
CARLSON: That was the day and then night came. Kyle Rittenhouse found himself in downtown Kenosha in the middle of a riot. He wound up face-to-face with a convicted child molester called Joseph Rosenbaum. Rosenbaum was there protesting on behalf of BLM, apparently he was committing arson. What happened next between the two of them is graphic, but if you want to understand how Joseph Rosenbaum died that night, it’s important to see it. Here it is.
[BEGIN VIDEO]
NARRATOR: Joseph Rosenbaum is seen starting more fires. Around that same time, Kyle Rittenhouse was spotted running with a fire extinguisher. With his face concealed, Rosenbaum emerges, chasing after Kyle Rittenhouse. A single gun shot is fired by a protester identified as Alexander Blain. From this angle, we see the muzzle flash of Blain&#8217;s handgun. Seconds later, Kyle Rittenhouse is pinned between parked cars. Directly in front of Rittenhouse, armed with bats and other weapons, a mob is forming a barricade. With no way out and no way to know who fired that shot, Kyle Rittenhouse turns to face Rosenbaum. Kyle Rittenhouse fired four shots. Seconds later, three additional shots are fired by an unknown shooter. One bullet grazed Joseph Rosenbaum’s head, another penetrated his right groin, his left thigh, and his back. With a total of eight shots fired, it remains unclear that all four of his wounds were caused by Rittenhouse.
[END VIDEO]
CARLSON: So to restate what we know, Kyle Rittenhouse fired four shots initially that night. Another four were fired. We still don’t know who fired them all, no one else has been arrested or charged. At this point, the mob turns on Kyle Rittenhouse. They assault him, it&#8217;s clear they plan to kill him. Kyle Rittenhouse runs, they follow, Rittenhouse trips and falls, they attack him, he shoots. It’s all on video. Watch.
[BEGIN VIDEO]
MALE #1, UNKNOWN: Hey, what are you doing? You shot somebody?
RITTENHOUSE: I&#8217;m going to get the police.
NARRARATOR: An unidentified protester strikes Rittenhouse in the head, knocking his hat off. Rittenhouse trips and falls to the ground, another protester attempts to jump on Rittenhouse who then fires two shots into the air. With blunt force, another protester strikes Rittenhouse in the back of the head with a sharp edge of a skateboard, then reaches for the rifle. Rittenhouse fires a single shot striking the man in the chest. A third protester fakes as if he is surrendering, then suddenly has a handgun aimed at Rittenhouse. A single shot strikes the man&#8217;s right bicep. While visiting him in the hospital, a friend of [the man who was shot in the bicep] posted the following photo and statement on social media: &#8220;I just talked to Gaige Grosskreutz too. His only regret was not killing the kid and hesitating to pull the gun before emptying the entire mag into him.
CARLSON: So that’s what happened that night in Kenosha.</blockquote>

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Vice President Mike Pence said on Thursday that he hasn&#8217;t &#8220;given any thought&#8221; to anything past the upcoming 2020 presidential election when asked if he is mulling his own run in 2024.
“I haven’t given any thought to anything beyond the election in 2020 because I think this election is so important to the life of the nation. I think this could well be one of the most important elections in the long and storied history of the United States, because we’re really deciding what path we will take,&#8221; Pence said in an interview with <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/10/mike-pence-2024-president-donald-trump/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Daily Caller</a>.
“By winning in 2020, we have an opportunity to continue to take our nation on the path that President Trump set us on in 2016, so all of my energies, all of my focus is dedicated to that prospect, and we’ll let the future take care of itself,” he added.
Pence singled out the coronavirus pandemic and its fallout as the most pressing issue for him and the Trump administration, after which fiscal responsibility will be front and center.
“President Trump has made it clear: We believe providing additional direct support to families, providing additional support and extension of the kind of programs that have literally saved more than 50 million jobs [&#8230;] is absolutely essential to bring our economy all the way back,” Pence continued. “That being said, once we find our way through this global pandemic in the second term of this president’s administration, we’re gonna roll our sleeves up. And, and look to, you know, restore fiscal responsibility to the federal budget.”
Pence is just one of the potential candidates to whom Republicans are looking to carry the party&#8217;s standard after President Donald Trump&#8217;s tenure. As <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/07/mike-pence-president-2024-067313" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Politico</a> reported, other potential candidates include Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), former ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Another candidate that has been floated for 2024 is Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-fox-news-host-tucker-carlson-is-drawing-2024-speculation" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Politico reports that “there’s an emerging consensus in the GOP that the 51-year-old Carlson would be formidable if he were to run” in the 2024 election.
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“What he’s been saying speaks for a lot of people, and it’s basically not expressed or serviced by most Republican politicians,” Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, told <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/02/tucker-carlson-2024-republicans-348334">Politico</a>. “There’s a lot to be said for being fearless, and he is, while Republican politicians, as a breed, are not.”
Sam Nunberg, a former Trump aide who also knows Carlson, told the news agency that while he doesn’t believe Carlson will run for president, as he’s “so disgusted with politicians,” the Fox News host would become the 2024 Republican nominee if he were to run during a Joe Biden presidency.</blockquote>
&#8220;He’s a talented communicator with a massive platform. I think if he runs he’d be formidable,&#8221; said Republican strategist Luke Thompson of a potential Carlson run.
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson released a bombshell tape on Wednesday night that showed CNN host Chris Cuomo coaching then-Trump attorney Michael Cohen on how to answer questions during interviews on CNN.
&#8220;Zucker and Cuomo &#8230; are frauds, just like the channel they work for,&#8221; Carlson began. &#8220;Despite its name, CNN is not a cable news network, it is a slickly produced propaganda loop. Every topic CNN covers has been chosen for its political effect. Every word its anchors speak has been curated to manipulate you. Nothing winds up on CNN by accident.&#8221;
&#8220;The whole thing is a scripted drama written for the benefit of the Democratic Party,&#8221; Carlson continued. &#8220;That’s not an overstatement; tonight we have proof. This is a conversation that took place in 2018 between CNN anchor Chris Cuomo and his friend, the disgraced felon lawyer Michael Cohen. The two spoke in person. Cohen wanted Cuomo to prepare him for an interview he’d been asked to do on CNN. As Michael Cohen put it, he wanted &#8216;Guidance, as a friend more than anything.'&#8221;
&#8220;Michael Cohen was worried about doing the interview because he knew he’d get questions about the payments he made to Stormy Daniels. He wanted Chris Cuomo to tell him what to say,&#8221; Carlson continued. &#8220;Now on TV, Cuomo might’ve launched into a lecture about how it’s wrong to send money to strippers, but in private, he skipped that lecture.&#8221;
“‘You will be asked that,’ Chris Cuomo told Michael Cohen, and you can say, &#8216;I did it for him, for Donald Trump. My relationship has always been for him. I&#8217;ve always said I don’t speak for the campaign, I speak for him as his attorney,'&#8221; Carlson continued. &#8220;Cuomo went on to elaborate, &#8216;And to the question of motive,’ he told Cohen, ‘the response would have to be, you can speculate as to why you think I did it all day long, but the only answer is my answer, and I just told you why I did it. You don’t get to speculate because if you can’t prove that I got paid back by Trump or the campaign, it is slander and defamation for you to say that I did.'&#8221;
Carlson said that Cuomo had deployed the “time-tested” defense of “the obviously guilty,” which is to threaten those who are asking questions.
“Then he gamed out what would happen next when Cohen went on his own channel,” Carlson continued.
“I think the way this conversation goes is almost exactly the way we’re having it right now, which is where I say, ‘this looks shady’ and you say, ‘it looks shady to you because you’re coming in with a specific intention,’” Carlson read from the script of what Cuomo told Cohen. “Again, Cuomo advised Cohen to attack the anchor.”
“Chris Cuomo began acting out both sides of the exchange—he acted out the news anchor’s question and then he acted Cohen’s scripted response to that question,” Carlson continued. “The conversation devolved into a kind of one-man play with Chris Cuomo as the performer and Michael Cohen as the audience.”
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Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf told Fox News&#8217; Tucker Carlson on Monday night that the Department of Justice (DOJ) was investigating the heads of Black Lives Matter and Antifa over the violent rioting that has broken out in Democratic-controlled cities across the United States.
Wolf began the segment by noting that 77-year-old Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was &#8220;delusional&#8221; after Biden suggested today that there would be more violence if Trump won re-election.
&#8220;Do you think the Department of Homeland Security is getting the help it needs from the Justice Department?&#8221; Carlson later pressed. &#8220;Why haven’t we seen the leaders of Antifa and BLM arrested and charged with conspiracy under RICO like the heads of the mafia families were?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, this is something that I have talked to the AG personally about,&#8221; Wolf responded. &#8220;I know that they are working on it. Look, we have seen about 300 arrests across this country regarding civil unrest and protesting, violent protesting and I would say, criminal protesting.&#8221;
&#8220;I know the Department of Justice has charged about 74, 75 individuals there in Portland with different federal crimes,&#8221; Wolf continued. &#8220;We will continue to see how those investigations are going. Department of Justice is also targeting and investigating the head of these organizations, the individuals that are paying for these individuals to move across the country.&#8221;
&#8220;What we know, Tucker, is that we have seen groups and individuals move from Portland to other parts of the country,&#8221; Wolf said. &#8220;We had about about 175 arrests in Kenosha, almost 100 of them were from out of state. So, we know they are moving around. We have seen them in D.C., in Sacramento, and elsewhere. They are organized. We have seen similar tactics being used from Portland and other cities across the country as well. So, we know that there is organization, I know the Department of Justice is also looking at that as well.&#8221;
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<blockquote>FOX NEWS HOST TUCKER CARLSON: Chad Wolf runs the Department of Homeland Security. He is the acting secretary. We are happy to have him on tonight. Mr. Secretary, thanks so much for coming on. Joe Biden today threatened, announced, predicted, choose your verb, that the president is reelected, we will see more violence. Are you worried about that?
ACTING DHS SECRETARY CHAD WOLF: I’m not, Tucker. I would say that that is a delusional statement. The idea that the president, or this administration, or the Department of Homeland is somehow the reason or the cause behind this violence is just absurd. Look, the department has been at this since early July, particularly in Portland, addressing some of this violent rioting and looting that was occurring and anarchists targeting a federal building in Portland. So, we&#8217;ve been at this for some time. We understand we have been caused or having been described as causing this violence. We know that’s not the case. And now, before they ignored it, it became DHS’s problem. And now they are saying that it is the administration and of the course the president that is now causing this. So, again, all these statements are absurd. They&#8217;re not true. I think most reasonable Americans understand what&#8217;s going on out there. And really the cause of all of this is local officials, state officials not taking this seriously enough from day one. When there is violence in your community, you need to restore law and order right away. We&#8217;ve seen that. I will work. We&#8217;ve seen it Kenosha, after several days, it’s working. Places like Portland and other places need to take the same advice. They need to bring that law and order back to their streets. So that the residents of those cities can feel safe as they go about their business everyday.
CARLSON: Yeah. I think that’s exactly right. In the meantime, do you think the Department of Homeland Security is getting the help it needs from the Justice Department? Why haven’t we seen the leaders of Antifa and BLM arrested and charged with conspiracy under RICO like the heads of the mafia families were?
WOLF: Well, this is something that I have talked to the AG personally about. I know that they are working on it. Look, we have seen about 300 arrests across this country regarding civil unrest and protesting, violent protesting and I would say, criminal protesting. Criminal rioting occur. About 300 arrests. About a third of those, or a hundred of those arrests have been in Portland specifically. I know the Department of Justice has charged about 74, 75 individuals there in Portland with different federal crimes. We will continue to see how those investigations are going. Department of Justice is also targeting and investigating the head of these organizations, the individuals that are paying for these individuals to move across the country. What we know, Tucker, is that we have seen groups and individuals move from Portland to other parts of the country. We had about about 175 arrests in Kenosha, almost 100 of them were from out of state. So, we know they are moving around. We have seen them in D.C., in Sacramento, and elsewhere. They are organized. We have seen similar tactics being used from Portland and other cities across the country as well. So, we know that there is organization, I know the Department of Justice is also looking at that as well.
CARLSON: You are not allowed to fund crime. Of course. If I do business with Iran, I go to jail, but we have domestic terrorism on a greater scale than we have had in my lifetime&#8211;50 years&#8211;and the funders of this have not been exposed by the federal government and they haven’t been punished and I’m confused as to why.
WOLF: Again, I would say that the Department of Justice, who has the lead in all those investigations, are certainly moving as quickly as possible. Again, it is something that I have talked with the attorney general about, almost on a weekly basis. The Department of Homeland Security, we are doing our role. We are making sure that the investigations that we are involved in, we are getting that information over to the Department of Justice, to the FBI, to those criminal investigators that are doing their job. Like you, Tucker, I wish that was in a little quicker fashion, we will continue to see how that is. But again, this administration, this president is committed to holding individuals accountable. I think once folks start to realize that if you want to riot, you want to loot, you want to do some of these other criminal acts that we see around this country, there&#8217;s going to be consequences for that and we&#8217;re going to continue to move down that road.</blockquote>
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson slammed Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) as a phony who will say anything to obtain power, after presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden announced Tuesday that she would be his running mate.
&#8220;Harris may be the single most transactional human being in America,&#8221; Carlson said. &#8220;There are time-share salesmen you would trust more than Kamala Harris. You could find payday lenders who are more sincere. So it seemed inconceivable that given his current state, Joe Biden would choose someone so transparently one-dimensional as Kamala Harris. Someone as empty as he is.&#8221;
&#8220;And the choice tells you a lot about the current state of the Democratic Party,&#8221; Carlson continued. &#8220;America is still technically a democracy, yet neither Biden nor Harris has ever been popular with actual voters. This is Joe Biden’s third run for president. The first two attempts ended in embarrassing disasters. The third was headed at high speed in that direction, and then a series of unforeseen flukes and highly crowded primary field left Biden the last man in the race. He was clearly shocked by his own victory. On election night, the night he clinched the nomination in March, Biden was so rattled, he mistook his sister for his wife during the acceptance speech.&#8221;
Carlson then proceeded to highlight many of Harris&#8217; weaknesses as a candidate, her far-left policy positions, and how the media is trying to prevent any negative coverage of her.
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<blockquote>FOX NEWS HOST TUCKER CARLSON: Good evening and welcome to “Tucker Carlson tonight.” Big news in the political world. Just hours ago, Joe Biden’s handlers announced they have selected Senator Kamala Harris of California to run as Biden’s vice president. We will admit, we did not see this coming. In fact, just last night on this show, we told you that Susan Rice was likely to get that job. Rice is a hardened partisan, but she’s not stupid. And more to the point, Rice has sincere beliefs, whether you like them or not, and we don&#8217;t.
But Kamala Harris is the opposite of that. Harris may be the single most transactional human being in America. There are time-share salesmen you would trust more than Kamala Harris. You could find payday lenders who are more sincere. So it seemed inconceivable that given his current state, Joe Biden would choose someone so transparently one-dimensional as Kamala Harris. Someone as empty as he is. It would be the first entirely hollow presidential ticket in American history, and we thought it could never happen. But it is; they&#8217;re doing it anyway. Biden-Harris, that’s what they are going with.
And the choice tells you a lot about the current state of the Democratic Party. America is still technically a democracy, yet neither Biden nor Harris has ever been popular with actual voters. This is Joe Biden’s third run for president. The first two attempts ended in embarrassing disasters. The third was headed at high speed in that direction, and then a series of unforeseen flukes and highly crowded primary field left Biden the last man in the race. He was clearly shocked by his own victory. On election night, the night he clinched the nomination in March, Biden was so rattled, he mistook his sister for his wife during the acceptance speech.
At the time, Joe Biden’s relative unpopularity seemed like a major problem for Democrats. This is politics, after all. The people who tend to have the most support tend to win. So, if you’re choosing a presidential nominee, you’d think you’d want someone with a built-in constituency, a base of passionate voters you could count on on election day. But as it turns out, that is the last thing leaders of the modern Democratic Party wanted. They already had a candidate like that, in fact, his name was Bernie Sanders. And they did everything they could to stop him.
No. What they wanted instead was someone they could control, and Joe Biden for that discretion perfectly. Biden was eager, malleable, and totally blank. He was willing to be whatever his handlers wanted him to be. Kamala Harris will be every bit as eager, and that’s the point. If Biden-Harris still doesn’t make sense to you as a ticket, it’s only because you’re not cynical enough. Harris clearly wasn’t picked for her personal charm. More than 30 years ago, she dated a man called Willie Brown, who was later the mayor of San Francisco. She was 29 years old at the time, Brown was 60 and still married. Brown launched Harris’ political career. He knows her very well. Last week, Brown publicly urged Joe Biden not to pick Kamala Harris as his running mate. But it turns out Willie Brown’s opinion no longer matters in the Democratic Party. Jeff Bezos’ opinion matters, so do the opinions of his fellow Bay Area tech titans and the finance moguls in New York. These are the people who bankroll the Democratic Party. They are the economic engine of the Left, and they love Kamala Harris. Not personally. It’s business. Their main interest is in keeping the government carve-outs that have made them rich. They know the last thing Kamala Harris will do is threaten any of those. Never, under any circumstances. One thing you can be certain of in a Biden-Harris administration, private equity barons will still pay half the tax rate you pay. That’s the real point.
Voters may not like Kamala Harris, but Wall Street does. Just in case you’re wondering who is actually in charge. And yet still, even politicians have souls – technically anyway. So how could Joe Biden pick a running mate who once publicly denounced him as a racist? You remember the moment. It was in the debate last summer.
[PLAYS VIDEO FROM DEBATE]
CARLSON: &#8216;I do not believe you are a racist. I do not believe you beat your wife.&#8217; Right. Kamala Harris, civil rights icon. Actually, Harris grew up mostly in Canada, and in any case, forced busing was a disaster from the beginning to the end. Nobody liked it, including black families. Joe Biden may be a bigot, but it’s not because he opposed forced busing. But apparently he’s forgiven Harris for that slur. Maybe he doesn’t even member it. But even a dimming 77-year-old must have some memory of what Harris once said about his purported sex crimes. Just last year, several women came forward to say Joe Biden had touched them in sexually aggressive ways, both on and off camera. Kamala Harris wholeheartedly endorsed their claims. “I believe them and I respect them being able to tell their story and having the courage to do it.” Wait, what? You believe that Joe Biden sexually assaulted a number of women, sexually assaulted them, but you’re joining his presidential ticket anyway? How does that work exactly? How can you do that? As it turns out, she can do it happily, shamelessly, without even taking a breath. Just tell Kamala Harris what to say and she will say it. That is the whole point of Kamala Harris. It’s why she’s so useful. And for the next several months, Harris is going to say that Donald Trump is a racist. She will say that every day until November. That’s her job now. You watch. But keep in mind as you watch that there’s no fighting back. It’s not allowed. Kamala Harris is a “historic” candidate, and that means you have no right to criticize her regardless of what she says. They’re already telling you that. They’re making it very clear.
Just last week, a group of abortion lobbyists &#8230; sent a letter to media organizations around the country about Biden’s upcoming VP pick. It was addressed to editors, news directors, reporters. The choice of the vice presidential candidate was almost certain to be a black woman, they said. They were right, and they wanted to warn reporters that in the wake of George Floyd’s death, any critical coverage of Joe Biden’s VP pick would amount to “systemic racism.” It wasn’t guidance. It was an unveiled threat. They made it because they knew it would work, and in fact it’s already working. Immediately after Harris was chosen today, The New York Times sent out a bulletin describing her as “a pragmatic moderate.” Got that? A pragmatic moderate, not some kind of kooky ideologue, not someone flaky, lifestyle liberal from San Francisco. Not at all, no. Instead, someone who wants to solve America’s toughest problems, and solve them without regard to orthodoxy or partisanship. A sober, steady leader in troubled times. Actually, it might be nice to have someone like that. But that is not kamala Harris, not even close. Harris has endorsed forcing schools to let biological males play on girl&#8217;s athletic teams. That’s not a majority position. It is nuts. But it&#8217;s not as crazy as federally subsidized abortions for biological men. Harris is for that too; she has announced it. Think that through for a minute. Men can’t get pregnant, so how do we pay for their abortions? Harris has never explained that, of course. At this point, it would be “systemically racist” to ask her, so no one ever will ever ask. Shut up. No questions allowed. Meanwhile, there is not a fashionable rich lady position that Kamala Harris doesn’t have. Plastic straws are bad. Red meat is worse. If there was a bill to make SoulCycle mandatory, Kamala Harris would immediately get behind it.
[PLAYS VIDEO OF KAMALA HARRIS AT CNN TOWNHALL]
CARLSON: So now you know Kamala Harris’ position on the all-important FDA food pyramid. But she has non-frivolous positions on important topics, too. On health care, Harris believes that illegal immigrants have every bit the right to taxpayer-funded medical treatment that you do as a citizen. This is yet another position, whatever you think of it, that the majority of Americans do not support. But as we’ve noted, Harris doesn’t care what most people want. They’re not her audience. She was told to support free health care for foreign nationals who break our laws, and so she does support it.
[PLAYS VIDEO OF HARRIS DURING A CNN INTERVIEW]
CARLSON: Kamala Harris isn’t an idiot, and she knows what she just suggested is actually impossible. You can have a welfare state. Lots of countries do. You can have open borders. But you can’t have both. No country can survive with a welfare state and open borders. That is obvious. No one disputes it. But Kamala Harris doesn’t care either way. The survival she cares about his or her own survival. By the way, if you think you can keep your family safe as the country collapses around her ambitions, you are wrong because she plans to disarm you first.
[PLAYS VIDEO OF HARRIS DURING INTERVIEW]
CARLSON: We could go on and on. Oh, the ironies. A party that is angry about police brutality has just hired the former chief law enforcement officer of California. Again, there’s a lot to say, and in coming weeks we’ll say it. There&#8217;s a lot of available tape, and of course Harris will soon provide more. But we&#8217;re going to sum up Kamala Harris this way: Last year, when actor Jussie Smollett staged his fake hate crime, Harris was one of the first national leaders to jump in with an expression of support. Smollett was “the kindest, most gentle human being” Harris had ever met, she wrote. The attack on him was “an attempted modern-day lynching.” Okay, so she fell for it. Lots of credulous rich people did – but what makes Kamala Harris a remarkable figure is that in the face of changing evidence, she never recanted her support. That tweet is still up; she did not delete it. You can still read it on her Twitter feed tonight. Smollett’s story was entirely concocted. Harris knows that. We all know it. But she doesn’t care. In fact, Harris understands perfectly well why Smollett lied. By smearing Trump supporters as bigots, he hoped to advance his career. And Kamala Harris of all people can respect that.</blockquote>
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President Donald Trump announced during a press briefing on Tuesday that Scott Atlas, M.D., was working with the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
Atlas later appeared on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight,&#8221; where he sounded off on the media and those setting public policy on how to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
&#8220;This is Scott Atlas,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://twitter.com/RepAndyBiggsAZ/status/1293231566462820352">said</a> in announcing that Atlas was working with the White House. &#8220;Scott is a very famous man who’s also very highly respected — Stanford. And he’s working with us and will be working with us on the coronavirus. And he has many great ideas. And he thinks what we’ve done is really good, and now we’ll take it to a new level. And so it’s great to have Scott working along with us.&#8221;
Atlas, who <a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/scott-atlas">is</a> the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, addressed a variety of issues during his appearance on Fox News, including masks, fear generated by the media and policymakers, and what he says is inappropriate policy.
&#8220;The reality is there is certain data that is very controversial about masks, and I think the president said it correctly, honestly, when he said that in certain settings it’s reasonable to wear a mask when you cannot social distance and particularly if you’re trying to protect &#8230; at proximity to a high-risk individual or you are a high-risk individual,&#8221; Atlas said.
&#8220;And I think that&#8217;s a rational policy. I don’t want to make fun of people who say these other things, though. And the reality is it’s stemming from a massive amount of fear, bordering on hysteria now, and this is a real problem because public policy is supposed to be taken into consideration, not just stopping COVID-19 at all costs, but understanding the impact of people on what you do and what you say. And I think that’s been a failure in some of the people who’ve been speaking out on this.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, fear has its political uses,&#8221; host Tucker Carlson said. &#8220;That may explain it in part, but fear also has medical consequences, does it not? It’s not good for people to be terrified, filled with anxiety, is it?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, that’s absolutely true and it also, again, we need to live in a rational world,&#8221; Atlas said. &#8220;We need to show our children we use critical thinking. There’s been a lot of sloppy thinking as I’ve said many times with people with very fancy CVs on this stuff. But reality is there are reasons to wear a mask, but generally speaking, driving around in your car alone and some of the other scenarios you outlined [it’s] not really rational to wear a mask.&#8221;
When asked about people who, for example, go outside and are exercising with no one around while wearing masks, Atlas said that &#8220;there’s no real good science on general population, widespread in all circumstances, wearing masks.&#8221;
&#8220;That really has been sort of a failure of communication by people who are supposed to know better,&#8221; Atlas said. &#8220;When you look at an article that&#8217;s published, you’re not supposed to take the bottom line. You’re actually supposed to look at it critically as a medical scientist and try to understand if you can actually draw the legitimate conclusion that the authors themselves are drawing. Much of the stuff on masks really is not very good science at all, and in fact, the W.H.O. itself says there is no sound science for general population wearing masks.&#8221;
&#8220;However, in certain settings, I think we can say it’s reasonable to wear a mask,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The goal of public policy honestly is twofold here: The public policy is directly for stopping the deaths by protecting the high-risk people and preventing hospital overcrowding while you safely reopen society. The public policy is absolutely not just stop COVID-19 cases at all costs, no matter what. That is not appropriate policy.&#8221;
Atlas later added that the media has &#8220;really highlighted and sensationalized things way out of proportion.&#8221;
&#8220;But really, it&#8217;s up to people who are legitimate, credible medical scientists to step up and articulate the logic and common sense policy because you can’t just say it’s all about the science and then say things that are contrary to the science,&#8221; Atlas said in his final remarks during the interview.
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<blockquote>FOX NEWS HOST TUCKER CARLSON: Dr. Scott Atlas has thought a lot about this. He’s a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. He&#8217;s joins us tonight. Dr. Atlas, thanks so much for coming on.
DR. SCOTT ATLAS: Thanks for having me, Tucker.
CARLSON: So, as a man of science, if you could just explain the public health utility of wearing a mask home alone on a zoom call. Is the virus transmissible through zoom?
ATLAS: No, and by the way, I want to correct you. I have not thought a lot about wearing a mask while having sex. I want to correct that.
CARLSON: I was trying to do it with a straight face; I couldn’t.
ATLAS: The reality is that there is certain data that is very controversial about masks, and I think the president said it correctly honestly when he said that in certain settings it’s reasonable to wear a mask when you cannot social distance, and particularly if you’re trying to protect &#8230; at proximity to a high-risk individual or you are a high-risk individual. And I think that&#8217;s a rational policy. I don’t want to make fun of people who say these other things, though. And the reality is it’s stemming from a massive amount of fear, bordering on hysteria now, and this is a real problem because public policy is supposed to be taking into consideration, not just stopping COVID-19 at all costs, but understanding the impact of people on what you do and what you say. And I think that’s been a failure in some of the people who’ve been speaking out on this.
CARLSON: Well, fear has its political uses. That may explain it in part, but fear also has medical consequences, does it not? It’s not good for people to be terrified, filled with anxiety, is it?
ATLAS: Well, that’s absolutely true and it also, again, we need to live in a rational world. We need to show our children we use critical thinking. There’s been a lot of sloppy thinking as I’ve said many times with people with very fancy CVs on this stuff. But the reality is there are reasons to wear a mask. But generally speaking, driving around in your car alone and some of the other scenarios you outlined, [it’s] not really rational to wear a mask.
CARLSON: You see people running outside with no one around &#8230; riding their bikes outside and wearing masks, and you kind of appreciate the effort they’re putting and the suffering they’re going through while doing it. But is there science behind that decision? Is there a good reason to do that?
ATLAS: There’s no real good science on general population, widespread in all circumstances, wearing masks. That really has been sort of a failure of communication by people who are supposed to know better. When you look at an article that&#8217;s published, you’re not supposed to take the bottom line. You’re actually supposed to look at it critically as a medical scientist, and try to understand if you can actually draw the legitimate conclusion that the authors themselves are drawing. Much of the stuff on masks really is not very good science at all, and in fact the W.H.O. itself says there is no sound science for general populations wearing masks. However, in certain settings, I think we can say it’s reasonable to wear a mask. The goal of public policy honestly is twofold here: The public policy is directly for stopping the deaths by protecting the high-risk people and preventing hospital overcrowding while you safely reopen society. The public policy is absolutely not just stop COVID-19 cases at all costs, no matter what. That is not appropriate policy.
CARLSON: And finally, you have seen a couple of high-profile people pass away from the coronavirus, from COVID-19. And you&#8217;ve seen media stories gleefully mocking their deaths – this was true for Herman Cain, a very nice man by the way. He died – because he doubted the mask policy, therefore the media concluded he deserved to die. Is this a standard that you accept, that we mock people after they die? And should we apply it to other communicable diseases, that people somehow deserve to die if they don’t follow the rules?
ATLAS: Yeah, I mean obviously that’s totally inappropriate. It’s sort of a symptom of both fear, and honestly, your profession, not you, but your profession, that has really highlighted and sensationalized things way out of proportion. And I’m not sure if it’s just a sign of the times &#8230; living in this hyperbole of social media or if there’s other motivations. But really it&#8217;s up to people who are legitimate, credible medical scientists to step up and articulate the logic and common sense policy because you can’t just say it’s all about the science and then say things that are contrary to the science.
CARLSON: I think that’s a very smart point because no one believes you when devalue your own credibility. I think that’s really wise. Dr. Atlas, thank you.
ATLAS: OK, thanks for having me.</blockquote>
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President Donald Trump announced during a press briefing on Tuesday that Scott Atlas, M.D., was working with the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Atlas

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Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Greg Gutfeld slammed CNN on Monday after CNN media reporter Brian Stelter aired a segment over the weekend claiming that no news organizations existed to tear down President Donald Trump.
The segment came as Stelter aggressively defended presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden over the week, claiming without evidence that &#8220;entire media companies essentially exist to tear down Joe Biden.&#8221;
&#8220;When you see entire media companies essentially exist to tear down Joe Biden, is there an equivalent to that on the left tearing down Trump?&#8221; Stelter asked a guest on his show.
The guest responded, &#8220;There really isn’t and what I would say, it’s really a diet of this type of information that a lot of these voters are getting.&#8221;
&#8220;Oh, to be this dumb,&#8221; Gutfeld responded. &#8220;So, so, wait, there’s no anti-Trump network? Wow, even CNN admits nobody watches CNN. But look, even if you despise Trump, you’ve got to admit this deception dares you to laugh in its face. There isn’t an anti-Trump media company? Hell, there might be two dozen with CNN leading the &#8216;hair on fire pack.&#8217; The only reason every Trump book goes to number one is because it has two cable networks doing its P.R., which explains why two recent massive surveys say media is overwhelmingly biased and cannot be trusted.&#8221;
&#8220;If only their delusional thinking were relegated to the silly world of politics or Brian Stelter’s head, but it’s not. The same people who deny this reality deny a lot of far uglier facts: Rising murder rates, shootings, looting, property destruction, attacks on the elderly, killing by released felons, attacks on free speech, riots described as &#8216;peaceful protests&#8217;,&#8221; Gutfeld continued. &#8220;Remember how the media pretended how the media pretended that &#8216;defunding the police&#8217; was a reasonable ask? For this to succeed, they had to bury reality, like Gallup surveys showing that over 80% of blacks and Hispanics want the same amount or more police. Funny how the white anchors never bring that stuff up.&#8221;
&#8220;But in order for a left-wing view of the world to exist, you must pretend none of that other bad stuff exists, meaning the consequences of left-wing action and democratic leader inaction,&#8221; Gutfeld concluded. &#8220;You can think a media and the left working together to preserve their power.&#8221;
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Carlson slammed the same segment on his show a few hours later, saying, &#8220;CNN took a quick break from its usual programming, encouraging looting and pointless mask-wearing outside, to take some jabs at this channel.&#8221;
After playing Stelter&#8217;s clip, Carlson said, &#8220;That’s a really good point, nobody criticizes Trump in the media, and I think what we need more of: people attacking Trump. Turns out, the people who work over at the Cable News Network don’t watch it. They watch this channel full-time, so we dug up some clips of their edification.&#8221;
Carlson played the following clips from people at CNN:
<blockquote>CNN HOST CHRIS CUOMO: It is what it is, Mr. President. It’s a pandemic and you are who you are. You don’t give a damn.
CNN HOST DON LEMON: The MAGA hat carries a certain connotation that provokes a conditioned reaction from many people, especially marginalized people.
STELTER: The word &#8216;cult&#8217; has been popping up more and more. &#8230; You said the president is using mind control, but how is that provable?
CUOMO: He does not practice humanity, he does not practice decency, he does not love mercy, he is intentionally unkind, he is mean to opponents.
LEMON: Are you listening? The president of the United States is a fraud and a con man.</blockquote>
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&quot;Turns out the people who work over at CNN don&#39;t watch it. They watch this channel full time.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/iUYL3TiG10">pic.twitter.com/iUYL3TiG10</a>
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On Tuesday, Fox News host Tucker Carlson reacted to the leaked body camera footage from two officers involved in the arrest of George Floyd, hitting prominent Democrat Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison for refusing to release the footage.
Floyd died in police custody at the end of May following an arrest that went viral on social media. A partial clip of the arrest, showing an officer holding his knee over the 46-year-old&#8217;s neck for several minutes, sparked national outrage and unrest, including mass protests and acts of vandalism, rioting, and looting.
AG Ellison did not release the bodycam video from the officers involved in the arrest.
On Monday, however, the Daily Mail released leaked <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-police-bodycam-footage-shows-moment-by-moment-arrest-of-george-floyd-for-the-first-time">footage</a> taken from the body cameras of Officers Thomas Lane, 37, and Alex Kueng, 26, after responding to a call that Floyd was allegedly using counterfeit money at Cup Foods.
As noted by The Daily Wire, the footage shows Floyd acting in an erratic manner that prompts police to question if he is intoxicated and includes Floyd resisting attempts to get him in the back of the police car, citing his “claustrophobia,” “anxiety,” previously having “COVID,” and his difficulty breathing. Floyd eventually begins yelling that he “can’t breathe” and saying he’d prefer to be on the ground than in the car.
&#8220;Why haven&#8217;t we seen the rest of the video until right now?&#8221; questioned the &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight&#8221; host. &#8220;The video seems relevant, particularly considering all that has happened next.&#8221;
&#8220;And the answer to why we haven&#8217;t seen it is simple,&#8221; Carlson continued. “Because Keith Ellison – he’s the attorney general of Minnesota – hid the video from the public; he refused to release the footage, and he admitted it.&#8221;
The Fox host then showed a clip of Ellison from early June explaining to The Washington Post his decision to withhold the body cam footage from the public.
“I’m a firm believer in transparency, and the public’s right to know, but a higher priority for me is a successful prosecution,&#8221; the AG <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/keith-ellison-releasing-body-camera-201758036.html">told</a> The Washington Post. &#8220;Therefore, I’ll consult with our lead investigators and I’ll say to them, ‘When can we release this information to the public and still safeguard the prosecution?’ If we can do it before [trial], I would have no problem with doing that, but I am reluctant to do anything that would undermine the prosecution of this case.&#8221;
Carlson mocked Ellison, &#8220;Right. &#8216;I&#8217;m a firm believer in transparency and the public&#8217;s right to know,&#8217; says Keith Ellison.&#8221;
&#8220;But apparently that&#8217;s not true,&#8221; Carlson asserted. &#8220;Videos like this are released all the time by authorities. In this case, it was hidden, and in fact, if it weren&#8217;t for a leak to a foreign newspaper, we wouldn&#8217;t have seen that video.&#8221;
Ellison is <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/1020403a-3488-4c1e-9eac-f52c41bb3f85">leading</a> the prosecution of the police officers accused of killing Floyd.
“Holding these four individuals accountable is a necessary part of establishing equality before the law for all people,” Ellison <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/1020403a-3488-4c1e-9eac-f52c41bb3f85">told</a> the Financial Times this week. “We need a lot more than a conviction in this case, but we do need to hold these individuals accountable. &#8230; It’s a necessary but insufficient condition to try to establish justice.”
&#8220;Floyd&#8217;s death has been used to justify a nationwide convulsion of violence, destruction, looting, in some cases killing,&#8221; Carlson said earlier in his show, adding, &#8220;In addition to unprecedented levels of political upheaval, the wholesale reordering of our most basic institutions. Floyd&#8217;s death changed everything. It was a pivot point in American history. No matter what side you&#8217;re on, that&#8217;s very clear at this point. So with all of that in mind &#8230; it&#8217;s striking how little we really know months later about how exactly George Floyd died.&#8221;
&#8220;You can decide for yourself what you think of that video,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And we hope that you will. That&#8217;s the whole point of having a news network, to bring you the facts and allow you to decide what they amount to. We hope that takes place in this case.&#8221;
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On Tuesday, Fox News host Tucker Carlson reacted to the leaked body camera footage from two officers involved in the arrest of George Floyd, hitting

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A Minneapolis restaurant owner, disheartened by the attitude toward the police that has crippled the city in the wake of the death of George Floyd, stated bluntly in the face of those calling for the defunding of police departments, “We need more police.”
The video segment of the owner followed Fox News’ Tucker Carlson delineating the rise in homicides around the country and the murder of children, from 9-year-old <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-janari-ricks-chicago-violence-20200801-cl5i64zwczcebnllkjxamuxawi-story.html">Janari Ricks in Chicago</a> to the worst rise in shootings in Portland, Oregon, in 30 years to more shootings in New York City in 2020 than all of 2019 to the killing of 1-year-old Davell Gardner, who <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/nyregion/Davell-Gardner-brooklyn-shooting.html">died in his stroller</a> at a barbecue from a shooting.
Carlson noted that the city of Minneapolis had moved to “eliminate the police department,” then followed with the clip of the restaurant owner, who stated, “In the night, there’s no security here. So a lot of people try to get in inside in the back. Stealing things in the back. And we need more police.”
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/do-as-they-say-minneapolis-police-tell-residents-to-be-prepared-to-give-up-personal-belongings-to-robbers">reported</a> on Tuesday:
<blockquote>Minneapolis Police informed residents of the city&#8217;s embattled 3rd Precinct to prepare for the giving up of their personal belongings to potential robbers and advised them to do as criminals say for their own safety.
According to a July 28 email provided to <a href="https://alphanewsmn.com/minneapolis-police-tell-residents-to-obey-criminals-and-be-prepared-to-be-robbed/">Alpha News MN</a> that was also forwarded to The Daily Wire, the Minneapolis Police Department offered &#8220;prevention tips&#8221; to residents hoping to avoid being a victim of the skyrocketing cases of robbery and carjacking that have plagued the city since George Floyd&#8217;s death in May.
&#8220;Robberies and Carjacking&#8217;s [sic] have increased in our Precinct,&#8221; the email begins. &#8220;Cell phones, purses, and vehicles are being targeted. Some victims have been maced, dragged, assaulted, and some threatened with a gun. Most of these crimes have occurred north of 42nd St. E. 100 Robberies and 20 Carjackings have been reported to 3rd Precinct Police in July alone. Downtown and Southwest Minneapolis have seen an increase as well. We want those who live and work here to be safe!&#8221;</blockquote>
In early June, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-minneapolis-city-council-president-asked-who-to-call-if-someone-breaks-into-your-house-after-dismantling-police-says-step-back-check-your-privileg">speaking</a> with CNN&#8217;s Alisyn Camerota on Monday morning, the president of the Minneapolis City Council, which had stated that it intended to &#8220;dismantle&#8221; the city’s police department, was asked what a citizen should do if an intruder broke into their house in the middle of the night and there were no police to call. In response, she blithely suggested that the opportunity to call police “comes from a place of privilege,” adding that those citizens should “step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality where calling the police may mean more harm.”
“We have a state action against our police department, which gives us legal mechanisms in the very short term, you know, there is (sic) lessons from all over the country, all over the world that we’re looking to take immediate steps while we work toward building the systems that we would need to imagine that future,&#8221; Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender said to Camerota.
“Do you understand that the word &#8216;dismantle&#8217; or &#8216;police-free&#8217; make some people nervous?&#8221; Camerota asked. &#8220;For instance, what if in the middle of the night, my home is broken into? Who do I call?&#8221;
Bender answered, &#8220;Yes, I mean, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors, and I know, and myself too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege because for those of us for whom the system is working, I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality where calling the police may mean more harm is done.&#8221;
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson tore into Dr. Anthony Fauci during his show Friday night, alleging that the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is &#8220;a fraud&#8221; who frequently wades into political discussions despite claiming otherwise.
During a segment in which he described Fauci as &#8220;likely the most powerful physician in the history of this country,&#8221; Carlson played a clip of Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/do-you-see-the-inconsistency-jim-jordan-grills-fauci-on-protests-church-during-pandemic" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">grilling</a> Fauci earlier this week about the seemingly lopsided response from health officials regarding the danger of mass protests compared to other activities such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/compliance-would-be-disobedience-prominent-california-church-defies-state-lockdown-to-resume-in-person-assembly" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">going to church</a>.
&#8220;So the protests don&#8217;t increase the spread of the virus?&#8221; Jordan asked at one point, to which Fauci responded, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t say that. You&#8217;re putting words in my mouth.&#8221; When Jordan continued to press him, Fauci eventually said, &#8220;I can tell you that crowds are known, particularly when you don&#8217;t have a mask, to increase the acquisition and transmission, no matter what the crowd is.&#8221;
Fauci nevertheless maintained that he was &#8220;not in a position to determine what the government can do in a forceful way&#8221; in terms of limiting things such as large protests, but Jordan hit back, saying, &#8220;Well, you make all kinds of recommendations. You make comments on dating, on baseball, on everything you can imagine. I’m just asking, you just said protests increase the spread. I’m just asking should we try to limit the protest?&#8221;
Lauding Jordan as &#8220;finally a member of Congress capable of asking a follow-up question,&#8221; Carlson said Jordan is &#8220;absolutely right,&#8221; and reiterated Jordan&#8217;s point that despite Fauci&#8217;s reticence during the congressional hearing to &#8220;opine on limiting anything,&#8221; he has been more than willing to offer his opinions on many other things, many of which have had profound consequences.
&#8220;There is nothing that Dr. Anthony Fauci won&#8217;t opine on, as long as it doesn&#8217;t offend the popular, the fashionable Left. &#8216;Sex with strangers online? No problem! Shaking hands? Bad!&#8217; Every day for the past several months, virtually, Dr. Fauci has advocated for a new coronavirus policy.&#8221; After playing a recent clip showing Fauci making recommendations for specific government responses to the coronavirus, Carlson said, &#8220;What a fraud this guy is!&#8221;
Carlson went on to place blame for the cratering U.S. economy largely on Fauci&#8217;s advice. &#8220;Fauci is 79, but maybe if he had, like, 22-year-old kids who are trying to make their way in this world in an economy that is headed down the tubes, thanks largely to his recommendations, he would feel differently,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not merely an inconvenience when your economy collapses. It&#8217;s the end of the American dream. That&#8217;s not a small thing. Maybe it&#8217;s worth it, maybe it&#8217;s not. But if it is, then you probably shouldn&#8217;t take a pass on the question, &#8216;Are protests and riots okay?&#8217; unless you&#8217;re a total fraud, like a complete fraud,&#8221; added Carlson.
Carlson has criticized Fauci before and questioned what he has characterized as the <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/coronavirus-report/497569-tucker-carlson-labels-fauci-chief-buffoon-of-the-professional" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">quasi-religious faith</a> many place in his expertise. In May, Carlson highlighted times when Fauci had contradicted himself on the seriousness of the coronavirus and the efficacy of masks. Referencing when Fauci cautioned shaking hands despite giving the green light to hook-up apps, Carlson said, &#8220;This is buffoon-level stuff at that point, and we are not doing this to mock the guy.&#8221;
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Donald Trump Jr. appeared on Fox News&#8217;s &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight&#8221; this week where he sounded off on his recent Twitter suspension after sharing a video on his account that showed doctors discussing the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19.
&#8220;Now, when I posted that video, I didn&#8217;t say, well, this is the gospel,&#8221; Trump said (video below). &#8220;I said, wow, this is a must-watch because it seems very contrary to the narrative that they&#8217;ve been force-feeding us for a little while.&#8221;
Trump noted that Twitter has previously <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/technology/489061-twitter-says-coronavirus-disinformation-spread-by-chinese-officials-does">stated</a> that coronavirus disinformation spread by the Chinese government does not violate their rules.
&#8220;It was very nice watching the people from CNN or MSNBC because Jake Tapper himself, a few weeks ago, posted, ‘study finds hydroxychloroquine helped coronavirus patients survive better,’&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;Now, why is Jake Tapper not spreading misinformation, but I somehow am? And again, I&#8217;m not a doctor. I didn&#8217;t claim to be. I just put something out there that challenged the narrative, and because I have a large platform, I&#8217;m canceled.&#8221;
&#8220;You know who else got thrown off Twitter for the same offense? Sidney Powell, who happens to be Michael Flynn&#8217;s attorney and has been someone who has been sticking it to the Left,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;So if Fake Jake [Tapper] at CNN, who no one is going to confuse as a conservative can put it, but not be censored, not be questioned, and certainly not be grilled by a panel of his peers on CNN, why is it that it&#8217;s happening to me and other Trump conservatives and other conservatives in general?&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Fake Jake&#8221; comment appears to be in reference to the anchor&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1279047976317521920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1279047976317521920%7Ctwgr%5E&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.dailywire.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D133471action%3Dedit">promotion</a> in early July of a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/health/hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-detroit-study/index.html">CNN report</a> on a study Tapper summarized as showing &#8220;hydroxychloroquine helped coronavirus patients survive better,&#8221; a claim <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-facebook-delete-viral-video-promoted-by-trump-on-covid-19-and-hydroxychloroquine">contradicted by other studies</a>.
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<blockquote>FOX NEWS HOST TUCKER CARLSON: Those of us who have been in this business for a while never dreamed we&#8217;d live to see journalists calling for more censorship, but that&#8217;s where we are.
Donald Trump, Jr. is the author of the new book, &#8220;Liberal Privilege.&#8221; It&#8217;s available for pre-order. We&#8217;re happy to have him join us tonight. Don, thanks so much for coming on.
So I just have to ask you the bluntest possible question with respect. Given the level of censorship imposed on you and anyone who supports the incumbent president, does the incumbent have a chance of getting re-elected?
DONALD TRUMP, JR., EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, TRUMP ORGANIZATIONS: Well, listen, I&#8217;ve been saying this for a long time. I wrote my first book about just this. The censorship coming from the Big Tech giants from California, from as homogenous a group as you could possibly imagine.
CARLSON: That&#8217;s for sure.
TRUMP, JR.: And if they&#8217;re censoring my account, they&#8217;re censoring others. You know, they have been trying to do this for a while. I&#8217;ve been talking about the de-platforming, the de-monetization of people that have big social platforms that are preaching conservative values, because Tucker, you have to note, this never happens to someone saying something that benefits the Left. It only hurts conservatives.
Now, when I posted that video, I didn&#8217;t say, well, this is the gospel. I said, wow, this is a must watch because it seems very contrary to the narrative that they&#8217;ve been force-feeding us for a little while.
Now, Twitter takes me down for that, but Twitter has no problem saying that coronavirus disinformation spread by the Chinese government does not violate their rules. That&#8217;s interesting. It happens all one way.
It was very nice watching the people from CNN or MSNBC because Jake Tapper himself, a few weeks ago, posted, study finds hydroxychloroquine helped coronavirus patients survive better.
Now, why is Jake Tapper not spreading misinformation, but I somehow am? And again, I&#8217;m not a doctor. I didn&#8217;t claim to be. I just put something out there that challenged the narrative, and because I have a large platform, I&#8217;m canceled.
You know who else got thrown off Twitter for the same offense? Sidney Powell, who happens to be Michael Flynn&#8217;s attorney and has been someone who has been sticking it to the Left. So if Fake Jake at CNN, who no one is going to confuse as a conservative can put it, but not be censored, not be questioned, and certainly not be grilled by a panel of his peers on CNN, why is it that it&#8217;s happening to me and other Trump conservatives and other conservatives in general?
CARLSON: If I see another Republican officeholder, backed by Google and the Chamber of Commerce, lecture me that it&#8217;s not really censorship because the government isn&#8217;t doing it, it&#8217;s just a monopoly the exists because of the government, I&#8217;m going to go bananas.
I mean, is there anybody in power who can step in to defend the basic &#8212; most basic right of all of the American people, which is to say what you think is true?
TRUMP, JR.: Well, actually, I think Josh Hawley in the Senate has done a very good job challenging this.
CARLSON: Yes, I agree with that.
TRUMP, JR.: Kevin McCarthy in the House has done the same thing, and that&#8217;s the problem. Like I said, I&#8217;ve been talking about this thing for three years.
I see what happens to my Twitter feed. I&#8217;m probably getting less than half the retweets, and I do enough of this that I know what I&#8217;m going to get before I hit send. They&#8217;re doing what they can.
I did a panel at CPAC with Josh and Kevin McCarthy about just this. They&#8217;re aware. The real problem is that the vast majority of conservative legislators and Republicans have no idea that this issue is even going on, and more importantly, they don&#8217;t realize that it&#8217;s probably a top two or three issue with their base.
If you&#8217;re religious, if you&#8217;re pro-life, if you&#8217;re pro-Second Amendment, just look at your analytics, and they&#8217;ve gone through the floor. It&#8217;s just been a disaster.
CARLSON: Exactly.
TRUMP, JR.: And it&#8217;s happened systematically on purpose, and it&#8217;s gone on now for years. They have to wake up.
CARLSON: So before you go, I just cannot resist getting your view of this. The Attorney General was up on the Hill today for hearings. Here&#8217;s Congressman Jerry Nadler of Manhattan responding to a question about the violence. Watch this.
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REP. JERROLD NADLER, D-N.Y.: I would remind Mr. Jordan, Mr. Biggs, and Mr. Johnson to stop violating the rules of the committee, to stop violating the safety of the members of the committee, to stop holding themselves out as not caring by refusing to wear their masks.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CARLSON: Oh, different clip but equally, equally nuts. What do you think of that?
TRUMP, JR.: Well, listen, I mean, this is typical Democrat. Do as I say, not as I do. This is the same Jerry Nadler that yesterday on TV was denying that anything’s even going on in Portland, as it relates to the violence that is decimating Democrat-controlled cities.
Now, again, 19 of the top 20 cities in this country are Democrat-run, Democrat mayors who appoint Democrats across the board. In many cases, these cities has been run by Democrats for over a hundred years. Yet magically, it&#8217;s Donald Trump&#8217;s fault.
It was Donald Trump&#8217;s fault when he sent federal officers to help and assist the Portland PD, who by the way, were under attack every night for five weeks prior to those federal officers being there. But again, it&#8217;s magically Donald Trump&#8217;s fault.
But that&#8217;s the problem, Tucker. The news that&#8217;s getting disseminated to the average guy – people like you and me, we perhaps do this stuff all day long, we can see through it – but if you&#8217;re a hard-working man or woman, you&#8217;re putting food on your table. You&#8217;re consuming five, ten minutes of news, and it&#8217;s that filtered and it&#8217;s that bias. That is the lens by which you are getting your news, it&#8217;s hard to make an accurate opinion because you&#8217;re being spoon fed all of these things.
CARLSON: Well, exactly.
TRUMP, JR.: And that is their intention.
CARLSON: And so you wind up getting a health lecture from Jerry Nadler and nobody laughs. It&#8217;s beyond belief.
Don Trump, great to see you tonight.
TRUMP, JR.: I mean, that would be one of the great ironies of all time.
CARLSON: I know. It&#8217;s really unbelievable. It&#8217;s like Ed Gein telling you to go vegan.
TRUMP, JR.: If I start taking that advice, I&#8217;ve got bigger problems, but &#8211; &#8211;
CARLSON: Great to see you. Thank you.</blockquote>
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The owner of a gym in Bellmawr, New Jersey, who was arrested Monday after remaining open in defiance of the governor&#8217;s lockdown order, said he will not back down because he is &#8220;not afraid of tyrants.&#8221;
Atilis Gym owner Ian Smith, 33, and his co-owner Frank Trumbetti, 51, were charged Monday with contempt, obstruction, and violating the Disaster Control Act, after a state judge ruled that authorities could shut down a gym and lock its doors. They also face daily fines for each day they remain in contempt and must pay the state&#8217;s cost in its pursuit of the contempt-of-court motion, according to <a href="https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/2020/07/24/atilis-gym-bellmawr-coronavirus-covid-murphy-persichilli/5503045002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Cherry Hill Courier-Post</a>.
Their arrest is the latest event in their months-long standoff with Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, whose lingering lockdown order has shuttered non-essential businesses for more than four months.
Speaking with Fox News host <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA1Ar35dpZw&amp;feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tucker Carlson</a> on Monday, Smith remained defiant despite his arrest. &#8220;From the last time that we spoke, we had lost our newest case of contempt of court, and that was on Friday of last week,&#8221; Smith said, referencing when he told Carlson he planned to reopen his gym in May. &#8220;The governor said and requested in court to take &#8216;extraordinary measures&#8217; to stop us from operating a business. And Judge Robert Lougy agreed with him.&#8221;
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Tyrant Governor Murphy has owners of Atilis Gym arrested while encouraging riots in the streets. That’s expected.
Cops complying with these orders is what gets me. I’m done taking up for weak ass cops violating their constitutional oath! <a href="https://t.co/J3vsM86JmY">pic.twitter.com/J3vsM86JmY</a>
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Smith went on to explain how he and his partner had removed the gym doors to prevent any attempt to padlock them and holed themselves up in their gym with two weeks&#8217; worth of clothing and no intention of leaving. &#8220;We did agree that we would go peacefully if law enforcement came,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;Frank and I at that point went peacefully, and when we arrived back after being booked, we had boarded-up doors.&#8221;
After pointing out that murderers are walking free in New Jersey despite the sheriff&#8217;s vigilance to board up Smith&#8217;s gym, Carlson asked him, &#8220;You went on this show, you knew that that was wagging a finger in the face of the tyrants who run your state. You did it anyway. Why?&#8221;
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Arrested NJ Gym Owner Ian Smith tonight on Tucker
“They [city officials, media] don’t ever offer any solutions. It’s wear a mask, shut up and wait for a vaccine. That’s not public health and I won’t subscribe to it”. <a href="https://t.co/qQJZE6Vms3">pic.twitter.com/qQJZE6Vms3</a>
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&#8220;Because I&#8217;m not afraid of tyrants,&#8221; Smith responded. &#8220;No American should be because we outnumber them greatly and the only thing that they run off of is fear, which is why you see what you see with the media, where they&#8217;re pumping fear into the coronavirus, when they should be pumping solutions. They don&#8217;t do that. They don&#8217;t ever offer any solutions. It&#8217;s &#8216;wear a mask, shut up, and wait for a vaccine.&#8217; That&#8217;s not public health and I won&#8217;t subscribe to it.&#8221;
Smith concluded by pointing out that Murphy&#8217;s initial lockdown was slated for two weeks but has since drawn out for more than four months.
Smith and his partner are among a growing number of Americans nationwide who are responding to state lockdown orders with civil disobedience. Grace Community Church, a prominent evangelical church in Sun Valley, California, made headlines last weekend when its senior pastor, John F. MacArthur, penned a statement explaining why the state had overstepped its legitimate authority by forbidding houses of worship to gather indefinitely.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/compliance-would-be-disobedience-prominent-california-church-defies-state-lockdown-to-resume-in-person-assembly" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">WATCH: NJ Governor Confronted On Violating Bill Of Rights By Banning Religious Services, Gives Viral Response</a>
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On Tuesday night, Fox News host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sean-hannity-threatens-lawsuit-against-nyt-demands-retraction-over-covid-story-times-responds">Sean Hannity</a> responded critically to comments by fellow network host <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh8vqof9hAk">Tucker Carlson</a> during their nightly handoff, hitting Carlson for a sharply critical segment on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and the Democratic Party.
&#8220;At least one person has become extremely rich, richer than any man in history, from all of this, including a lot of the suffering, that would be Amazon CEO, Democrat donor, owner of The Washington Post Jeff Bezos,&#8221; Carlson said during the segment, referencing the U.S. response to the novel coronavirus.
During the show handoff, Hannity, in a side-by-side shot with Carlson, said, &#8220;People can make money. They provide goods and services people want, need, and desire. That’s America. It’s called freedom, capitalism, and as long as it’s honest, right, people decide.”
Carlson seemed visibly confused and irritated by the Hannity shot, but refrained from responding to his colleague on-air.
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Fox News’ Tucker Carlson spends his D-block criticizing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for adding to his overall net worth during the coronavirus pandemic. 
Watch Carlson’s face during the handoff to Sean Hannity who defends Bezos.<a href="https://t.co/WcFlZTJTHU">pic.twitter.com/WcFlZTJTHU</a>
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Hannity soon after offered an apology to Carlson and clarified his comments.
“I apologize for any misunderstanding to Tucker and the Fox audience,” he said in a reply to the viral video clip of the Carlson segment dig. “I support freedom and Capitalism. Not people taking advantage of a pandemic. If I see such evidence I will obviously condemn it.”
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I apologize for any misunderstanding to Tucker and the fox audience. I support freedom and Capitalism. Not people taking advantage of a pandemic. If I see such evidence I will obviously condemn it.
&mdash; Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/1285761201344057344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The segment, to which Hannity was apparently responding, included Carlson condemning Bezos for profiting off the pandemic response and insulating himself from criticism by owning a major newspaper. He also hit the Democratic Party for ignoring the supposed economic injustice they would otherwise condemn, were they not the ones profiting.
&#8220;At least one person has become extremely rich, richer than any man in history, from all of this, including a lot of the suffering, that would be Amazon CEO, Democrat donor, owner of The Washington Post Jeff Bezos,&#8221; Carlson started in. &#8220;Jeff Bezos, just yesterday, made $13 billion.&#8221;
&#8220;Now, 20 years ago, if that had happened, if a &#8216;captain of industry&#8217; had made $13 billion in a single day while the country got poorer, the Democratic Party would have had something to say about it,&#8221; the populist-leaning Fox News host continued. &#8220;Not anymore, because the people getting rich are members of the Democratic Party.&#8221;
Later in the segment, Carlson emphasized, &#8220;I&#8217;m not against wealth accumulation, I&#8217;m not against free enterprise, but $13 billion in a day suggests something is skewed with the system.&#8221;
Commenting on Bezos&#8217; ownership of the Post, Carlson noted that the billionaire made a &#8220;pretty smart PR (public relations)&#8221; move, adding, &#8220;Buy the paper so you never get criticized.&#8221;
&#8220;One thing about Jeff Bezos: not stupid. I&#8217;m not a fan, but I gotta say, pretty smart.&#8221;
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Here was Tucker’s segment on Jeff Bezos that proceeded this exchange <a href="https://t.co/G3uYTytRpC">pic.twitter.com/G3uYTytRpC</a>
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Carlson has questioned Bezos before. For example, back in 2018, Carlson gave the nod to socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in comments about Bezos.
&#8220;Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Many of his employees are so poor, you’re paying their welfare benefits. And he’s not the only tech billionaire offloading his payroll costs onto taxpayers. This is an indefensible scam. Why is only Bernie talking about it?&#8221;
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Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world. Many of his employees are so poor, you’re paying their welfare benefits. And he’s not the only tech billionaire offloading his payroll costs onto taxpayers. This is an indefensible scam. Why is only Bernie talking about it? <a href="https://t.co/PdXBfQsHsq">pic.twitter.com/PdXBfQsHsq</a>
&mdash; Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1035334044698009600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2018</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Hannity Takes Shot At Tucker Segment During Show Handoff; Hannity Later Apologizes In Tweet

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Sean Hannity

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On Tuesday night, Fox News host Sean Hannity responded critically to comments by fellow network host Tucker Carlson during their nightly handoff, hitting

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On Monday, reports surfaced of a lawsuit targeting various luminaries at Fox News on sexual harassment accusations, including Fox News’ Tucker Carlson. The lawsuit claims that Cathy Areu, one of the accusers, “was a guest on Carlson’s show in December 2018 and that after it was over, he told her he was staying in a hotel room in New York that night without his wife and children,” according to the <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/movies-and-tv/2020/7/20/21332150/sean-hannity-tucker-carlson-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-fox-news-howard-kurtz-jennifer-eckhart">Chicago Sun-Times</a>, which added, “In the cases of Carlson and (Howard) Kurtz, Areu believed the men were making sexual advances, the lawsuit said.”
Fox News stated that they had asked an outside law firm to investigate, and based on their report, found Areu’s claims “false, patently frivolous and utterly devoid of any merit.”
On Tuesday, this tweet surfaced from October 23, 2019, well after the reputed incident that Areu claimed occurred in December 2018:
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The lawsuit&#8217;s claim against Carlson reads:
<blockquote>In 2017 and 2018, Ms. Areu appeared on a very frequent basis on Tucker Carlson Tonight (17 times, at least, in 2018 alone). Ms. Areu’s final 2018 appearance on the show was in December 2018. That show was filmed live in New York City and Mr. Carlson was in New York City at the studio.
After Ms. Areu’s segment was completed, one of Mr. Carlson’s producers or writers whispered in Ms. Areu’s ear, while she was on set trying to get out of the chair, and told her that Mr. Carlson wanted her to stay until the very end of the show to chat with him. Ms. Areu had no choice but to comply with Mr. Carlson’s request due to the fact that she was on live television while tied to her chair with a microphone on her that was attached to the chair. Ms. Areu was also wearing an earpiece that the tech crew refused to take off.
Mr. Carlson’s tech crew refused to undo Ms. Areu’s equipment on set therefore she could not leave the chair or studio. Following the show, Mr. Carlson changed on set into his leather jacket for the annual Christmas party that he told Ms. Areu he would only be attending for approximately 10 minutes to, “make a quick appearance.”
Following the show, Mr. Carlson, hardly making any effort to hide his intentions, began telling Ms. Areu that he would be alone in New York City that night, and specifically said that he would be staying alone in his hotel room without any wife or kids. Without question, Mr. Carlson was probing to see whether Ms. Areu was interested in a sexual relationship. Ms. Areu awkwardly sidestepped Mr. Carlson’s advances and declined to spend the night at his hotel. Mr. Carlson promptly retaliated against Ms. Areu, who was featured on his show only three times in 2019 and has not appeared once in 2020.</blockquote>
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Tucker Accuser Tweeted ‘TC Has Always Been Polite To Me’

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On Monday, reports surfaced of a lawsuit targeting various luminaries at Fox News on sexual harassment accusations, including Fox News’ Tucker Carlson.

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A series of harassment <a href="https://apnews.com/e4faa25132e20cf5acd3fb938de744c7">allegations</a> against high-profile Fox personalities were made public in a lawsuit filed on Monday, to the sound of celebratory trumpet blasts from the rest of the news media. Many of the outlets that took weeks to report the alleged rape of a woman by Joe Biden were not nearly as hesitant to amplify the claims made against Fox hosts Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, among others. Is that because the allegations against Hannity and Carlson are more credible? Well, you be the judge.
A frequent Fox guest named Cathy Areu (she was not an employee of the company at the time of these alleged incidents) says she was victimized by Sean Hannity in March of 2018 when the host supposedly presented $100 and offered to give it to any man on the staff who would take her on a date. A few months later she was on Carlson&#8217;s show when, she claims, Carlson mentioned that he&#8217;d be alone in the city that evening. The lawsuit also says that Carlson changed his jacket in front of her and that she wasn&#8217;t able to escape this terrible scene because she was &#8220;tied to her chair&#8221; by her microphone. Areu makes similar claims against other Fox employees and personalities, and she says she was punished when she turned down Carlson&#8217;s alleged implied potential proposition by only being invited on the show three times afterwards.
It is odd that Areu continued going back to Fox for guest spots even though, by her telling, she was being sexually propositioned left and right. If all of this happened, and if it made her uncomfortable, she could have avoided it just by turning down the appearance requests, which is something you can do by text or email with no effort or awkwardness at all. As for the allegations themselves, the story about Hannity is nonsensical the way it is presented. Why would he offer to pay someone else to take one of his guests on a date? If this happened at all — which seems doubtful to me — perhaps it was a joke that made sense in context. And even if it did happen exactly as described, and even if Hannity would not be vindicated by context, it still wouldn&#8217;t be harassment. At worst, this was a very weird joke.
The charge against Carlson is even more frivolous. Areu does not allege that Carlson ever directly propositioned her or said anything about sex to her. She alleges that he mentioned that he&#8217;d be alone that night, and she interpreted that as an implied request that she join him in his hotel room for sex. If he did say anything about being alone, it&#8217;s quite easy to imagine a non-sexual meaning behind it. He could have been making small talk. He could have been expressing relief that he gets a night to himself without the kids (as a father of four who very much enjoys quiet hotel rooms, I can relate to this). There could be any number of reasons why a person might say something like that to another person. Or it could be that he never said it at all. But whatever he said or didn&#8217;t say, there is no universe in which Areu&#8217;s claim against Carlson rises anywhere near the level of sexual harassment. The fact that she complains of him taking off his jacket, and alleges that she was helplessly bound to her chair because she couldn&#8217;t figure out how to take a mic clip off, just makes this all the more farcical.
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We should note that the lawsuit does contain a more serious allegation. A woman named Jennifer Eckhart says that former Fox anchor Ed Henry raped her while she was naked and handcuffed. This also raises questions, such as why she&#8217;s filing a civil complaint rather than a criminal complaint after allegedly being physically restrained and assaulted. If true, Henry would be guilty of multiple felonies — kidnapping among them — and should be going to prison for the rest of his life. It seems odd that this matter wasn&#8217;t taken immediately to the police. But in any case, the Henry allegations have no bearing on the allegations against Hannity and especially Carlson, which are absurd and gratuitous by any measure.
Update: In a statement sent to The Daily Wire, Fox News responded to the accusations leveled by Areu. “Based on the findings of a comprehensive independent investigation conducted by an outside law firm, including interviews with numerous eyewitnesses, we have determined that all of Cathy Areu’s claims against FOX News, including its management as well as its hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity &amp; Howard Kurtz and its contributor Gianno Caldwell, are false, patently frivolous and utterly devoid of any merit. We take all claims of harassment, misconduct and retaliation seriously, promptly investigating them and taking immediate action as needed — in this case, the appropriate action based on our investigation is to defend vigorously against these baseless allegations. Ms. Areu and Jennifer Eckhart can pursue their claims against Ed Henry directly with him, as FOX News already took swift action as soon as it learned of Ms. Eckhart’s claims on June 25 and Mr. Henry is no longer employed by the network.”
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This article has been expanded to include Fox News&#8217; statement on Areu and Eckhart&#8217;s claims. 
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WALSH: Tucker Carlson Is Being Targeted With One Of The Most Frivolous Sexual Harassment Allegations Ever

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A series of harassment allegations against high-profile Fox personalities were made public in a lawsuit filed on Monday, to the sound of celebratory

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Democratic California Rep. Eric Swalwell accused Fox News host Tucker Carlson of instigating death threats against him, as well as being &#8220;a phony&#8221; who doesn&#8217;t believe the things he says on television.
&#8220;You know what kind of man [Tucker Carlson] is?&#8221; Swalwell began in a three-tweet thread. &#8220;After protestors vandalized his house a few years ago, I tweeted that was wrong. I took heat. Didn’t care — that was wrong. What did Tucker do? Just months later, Tucker repeatedly lied on his show that I’d be taking everyone’s guns. What do you think happened next? Death threats rolled in against me and my children. A Small business run by family members was harassed.&#8221;
&#8220;Did Tucker care? No,&#8221; Swalwell continued. &#8220;He lies and spreads disinformation for the worst reason: it sells. Any one who has met and talked to Tucker knows he doesn’t believe the bullsh** he’s peddling. I’ve talked to him before shows. He laughs at his own act. He’s a phony. I’m sorry he feels his family is threatened. But, when I spoke up to protect his family, he went on air to cash in on dangerous lies about me.&#8221;
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everyone’s guns. What do you think happened next? Death threats rolled in against me and my children. A Small business run by family members was harassed. Did Tucker care? No. He lies and spreads disinformation for the worst reason: it sells. Any one who has met and talked to
&mdash; Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell/status/1285427523237576706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Tucker knows he doesn’t believe the bullshit he’s peddling. I’ve talked to him before shows. He laughs at his own act. He’s a phony. I’m sorry he feels his family is threatened. But, when I spoke up to protect his family, he went on air to cash in on dangerous lies about me.
&mdash; Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell/status/1285429597912338433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In a May 2018 op-ed for USA Today, Swalwell <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democratic-rep-eric-swalwell-wants-make-assault-frank-camp" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">argued in favor</a> of federally banning assault weapons, instituting a mandatory buyback program, and potentially jailing those who resist. &#8220;We should ban possession of military-style semiautomatic assault weapons, we should buy back such weapons from all who choose to abide by the law, and we should criminally prosecute any who choose to defy it by keeping their weapons,&#8221; he wrote.
Swalwell reiterated his gun control position <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rep-eric-swalwell-rolls-out-gun-control-plan" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">when he was a Democratic presidential candidate</a>, a topic Carlson <a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/6026921679001#sp=show-clips" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">discussed on his show</a>.
Carlson on Monday claimed The New York Times is working on a story about the location of his family&#8217;s house to attack him because of his politics. &#8220;Last week The New York Times began working on a story about where my family and I live,&#8221; he said in part. &#8220;As a matter of journalism there is no conceivable justification for a story like that. The paper is not alleging we’ve done anything wrong and we haven’t. We pay our taxes. We like our neighbors. We’ve never had a dispute with anyone.&#8221;
Carlson continued, &#8220;So why is The New York Times doing a story on the location of my family’s house? Well, you know why. To hurt us, to injure my wife and kids so that I will shut up and stop disagreeing with them. They believe in force. We’ve learned that.&#8221; He mentioned how he and his family were forced to move after left-wing activists attacked their home in 2018 and sent them months of death threats. He alleged the NYT is trying to enable such a thing to happen again.
&#8220;Editors there know exactly what will happen to my family when it does run,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I called them today and I told them. But they didn’t care. They hate my politics. They want the show off the air.&#8221;
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Tucker responds to intrusive reporting by The New York Times. <a href="https://t.co/xj4z69G9cA">pic.twitter.com/xj4z69G9cA</a>
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The Times has since responded by claiming that they have no plan to reveal the street address of Carlson&#8217;s family home. The response from the paper has been met with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-times-hit-with-backlash-over-potentially-misleading-response-to-tucker-carlson-claiming-theyre-going-to-reveal-where-his-family-lives">backlash</a>, with critics noting that Carlson accused the paper of highlighting the home&#8217;s general &#8220;location,&#8221; not the physical address.
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Eric Swalwell Accuses Tucker Carlson Of Being ‘A Phony’ Who Has Put Him At Risk With ‘Dangerous Lies’

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Democratic California Rep. Eric Swalwell accused Fox News host Tucker Carlson of instigating death threats against him, as well as being &quot;a phony&quot; who

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The New York Times met with backlash for what critics described as a misleading statement in response to Fox News host Tucker Carlson&#8217;s claim on Monday night that the newspaper was going to reveal where his family lives.
&#8220;Last week, The New York Times began working on a story about where my family and I live,&#8221; Carlson said during the final minutes of his show. &#8220;So why is The New York Times doing a story on the location of my family’s house? Well, you know why. To hurt us, to injure my wife and kids so that I will shut up and stop disagreeing with them. They believe in force.&#8221;
&#8220;Their story about where we live is slated to run in the paper this week,&#8221; Carlson later added. &#8220;Editors there know exactly what will happen to my family when it does run. I called them today and I told them. But they didn’t care. They hate my politics. They want the show off the air. If one of my children gets hurt because of a story they wrote, they won’t consider it collateral damage, they know it’s the whole point of the exercise: To inflict pain on our family, to terrorize us, to control what we say. That’s the kind of people they are.&#8221;
Carlson mentioned how he and his family had to move after left-wing activists attacked his home in 2018.
The New York Times&#8217;s public relations Twitter account denied the claim in a tweet, writing: &#8220;[The New York Times] does not plan to publish Tucker Carlson&#8217;s residence, which Carlson was aware of before his broadcast tonight.&#8221;
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof doubled down on the paper&#8217;s claim, writing: &#8220;Tucker Carlson denounced a supposed plan by the [New York Times] to publish his home address. The only problem: There was no such plan, as he knew.&#8221;
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Tucker Carlson denounced a supposed plan by the <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a> to publish his home address. The only problem: There was no such plan, as he knew. <a href="https://t.co/S2pV4YYice">https://t.co/S2pV4YYice</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickKristof/status/1285426715523784704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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However, the statement from The New York Times&#8217;s official public relations account and from Kristof are misleading because Carlson never said that the newspaper was going to release the home address of where he lived. Carlson said that the paper was working on a story &#8220;on the location of&#8221; his family&#8217;s home and &#8220;where my family and I live,&#8221; which are broader statements.
Journalist Yashar Ali tweeted: &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure where everyone is getting this idea that the NYT is planning on publishing Tucker&#8217;s address. Tucker himself does not allege that they are. They are working on a story about the town in which he lives. But, given what I know, I fail to see the newsworthiness.&#8221;
&#8220;Tucker provides plenty for the NYT to cover on his show. PLENTY,&#8221; Ali added. &#8220;I just don&#8217;t see how a national outlet needs to focus on the town in which he lives. It&#8217;s the kind of thing that distracts from the real story and the important reporting that should be done on his program.&#8221;
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2. Tucker provides plenty for the NYT to cover on his show. PLENTY. I just don&#39;t see how a national outlet needs to focus on the town in which he lives. It&#39;s the kind of thing that distracts from the real story and the important reporting that should be done on his program.
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Online, commentators questioned the statement that the Times released about the ordeal.
Stephen Miller wrote: &#8220;We weren&#8217;t going to take photos of his address. Just his house and neighborhood, which could easily be found using google maps or google earth. The same media that doxxes random gif makers and forklift operators? Yeah, think I&#8217;m going with Carlson on this one.&#8221;
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We weren&#39;t going to take photos of his address. Just his house and neighborhood, which could easily be found using google maps or google earth. 
The same media that doxxes random gif makers and forklift operators? Yeah, think I&#39;m going with Carlson on this one. <a href="https://t.co/hKQBhvzdDB">https://t.co/hKQBhvzdDB</a>
&mdash; Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1285446773754834945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Daily Caller&#8217;s Greg Price wrote: &#8220;Notice how they didn&#8217;t deny that they in fact sent journalists to find out where he moved to and take pictures of his house, which people can easily find on Google maps. This newspaper is garbage.&#8221;
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Notice how they didn&#39;t deny that they in fact sent journalists to find out where he moved to and take pictures of his house, which people can easily find on Google maps. This newspaper is garbage. <a href="https://t.co/bN9qT80bjJ">https://t.co/bN9qT80bjJ</a>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1285453036698193921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli responded to a tweet that stated that the Times was &#8220;deliberately encouraging violence against him&#8221; by saying &#8220;that is clearly their intent.&#8221;
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That is clearly their intent <a href="https://t.co/bq0r1TeVHS">https://t.co/bq0r1TeVHS</a>
&mdash; Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli (@HomelandKen) <a href="https://twitter.com/HomelandKen/status/1285398971092017152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The View&#8221; co-host Meghan McCain wrote on Twitter: &#8220;This is extremely dangerous and a weird new norm. Even printing his neighborhood or building or home area is really dangerous. Why people feel comfortable doing this to people with whom their politics they hate is sick. It is the most violating thing in the entire world.&#8221;
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This is extremely dangerous and a weird new norm. Even printing his neighborhood or building or home area is really dangerous. Why people feel comfortable doing this to people with whom their politics they hate is sick. It is the most violating thing in the entire world. <a href="https://t.co/hI67GEcaYq">https://t.co/hI67GEcaYq</a>
&mdash; Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1285381198878060544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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New York Times Hit With Backlash Over Potentially Misleading Response To Tucker Carlson Claiming They’re Going To Reveal Where His Family Lives

The New York Times met with backlash for what critics described as a misleading statement in response to Fox News host Tucker Carlson&#039;s claim on Monday

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson revealed on Monday night that The New York Times is planning to publish a report on where his family lives after they had to move due to an attack on their home by Antifa and due to repeated death threats that they have received.
TRANSCRIPT AND VIDEO BELOW:
<blockquote>One more thing before we go tonight. Since this show began almost four years ago, I’ve really tried not to talk about myself on the air or even use the first-person pronoun. The last thing this country needs is more narcissism. It’s not very interesting anyway.
People who use the word &#8220;I&#8221; a lot tend to bore everyone but themselves but tonight were going to make an exception to that rule. We don’t have much choice. Last week The New York Times began working on a story about where my family and I live. As a matter of journalism there is no conceivable justification for a story like that. The paper is not alleging we’ve done anything wrong and we haven’t. We pay our taxes. We like our neighbors. We&#8217;ve never had a dispute with anyone.
So why is The New York Times doing a story on the location of my family’s house? Well, you know why. To hurt us, to injure my wife and kids so that I will shut up and stop disagreeing with them. They believe in force. We&#8217;ve learned that. Two years ago, a left-wing journalist publicized our home address in Washington. A group of screaming antifa lunatics showed up while I was at work. They vandalized our home. They threatened my wife. She called 911 while hiding in a closet. A few weeks later they showed up again at our house. For the next year, they sent letters to our home threatening to kill us. We tried to ignore it and felt cowardly to sell our home and leave. We raised our kids there in the neighborhood and we loved it. But in the end that’s what we did. We have four children. It just wasn’t worth it.
But The New York Times followed us. The paper has assigned a political activist called Murray Carpenter to write a story about where we are now. They’ve hired a photographer called Tristan Spinski to take pictures. Their story about where we live is slated to run the paper this week. Editors there know exactly what will happen to my family when it does run. I called them today and I told them. But they didn’t care. They hate my politics. They want they show off the air. If one of my children gets hurt because of a story they wrote, they won&#8217;t considered it collateral damage, they know it’s the whole point of the exercise: To inflict pain on our family, to terrorize us, to control what we say. That’s the kind of people they are.
They&#8217;ll deny this of course, they&#8217;ll say it&#8217;s just journalism, just the facts. Really? So, how would Murray Carpenter and his photographer Tristan Spinski feel if we told you where they live, if we put pictures of their homes on the air? What if we publicized the home address of everyone of the soulless robot editors at The New York Times who assigned and manage this incitement to violence against my family? What about the media editor, Jim Windolf? We could do that. We know who they are. Would that qualify as journalism? We doubt they&#8217;d consider it journalism. They&#8217;d call it criminal behavior if we did it and that tells you everything.</blockquote>
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Tucker Carlson: New York Times Is Planning On Revealing Where My Family Lives To ‘Injure My Wife And Kids’

Fox News host Tucker Carlson revealed on Monday night that The New York Times is planning to publish a report on where his family lives after they had to

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St. Louis homeowner Mark McCloskey appeared on Fox News&#8217;s &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight&#8221; with host Tucker Carlson to discuss the breaking news from this afternoon that Democratic St Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner had charged him and his wife with felonies after they defended their private property last month with firearms.
McCloskey told Carlson that none of the people who had allegedly trespassed onto this property had been charged and that Gardner has &#8220;apparently decided her job as a prosecutor isn’t to keep us safe from criminals but to keep the criminals safe from us. It’s a bizarre upside down world. I’ve been a little irritated by this process until today and now I am just flat out pissed off. This has gotten to be outrageous.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, everybody has to stand up and do what’s right,&#8221; McCloskey continued. &#8220;I’m not going to be bullied. I’m not going to be intimidated. The left, the mob uses social intimidation and threats to get people to knuckle under and apologize for doing what’s right. We are not going to apologize for doing what’s right. We are not going to back down and we are not going to move.&#8221;
&#8220;People need to stand up, wake up and recognize it for what it is,&#8221; McCloskey added. &#8220;It’s a concerted effort to destroy our way of life, to change the fundamental basic social contract, to do away with capitalist democracy and replace it with mob rule, encouraging violence, protecting criminals from prosecuting people to try to defend themselves against it. It’s a bizarre world. It’s time for people to wake up and pay attention to it.&#8221;
&#8220;We have gotten support now from the White House on down. Governor Parson, there&#8217;s a senator, Eric Schmidt our Attorney General,&#8221; McCloskey later added. &#8220;It seems like the only person in the United States that thinks we did something wrong is our circuit attorney, but she&#8217;s the same person that let out of jail everybody that was responsible for the looting and fires and destruction following the George Floyd death in the city of St. Louis. The only people she wants to prosecute are the people that defended themselves against it and nobody else to my knowledge.&#8221;
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TRANSCRIPT:
<blockquote>FOX NEWS HOST TUCKER CARLSON: The mob was not black. It was mixed race. There were white people and black people. It had nothing to do with race. And the &#8216;basic everyday activities&#8217; you just heard about, those include unlawful trespassing, destruction of property, terroristic threatening, threatening to kill them. But none of the people who did that will face consequences for it. Mark McCloskey will though. He now faces four years in prison and up to a $10,000 crime for the crime of defending himself when no one else would. Mark McCloskey joins us tonight. Mark, thanks so much for coming on. I can’t imagine how you feel. Like you have woken up in a country you don’t recognize. Tell us where you are right now legally, if you would.
MARK MCCLOSKEY: Well, it’s totally upside down world, Tucker. The people who broke into my neighborhood, they were all trespassing. The guy that recruited it, that planned this event, said the next day that he intended to break the law, that he needed to break laws in order to send his message. None of those people are arrested. None of those people are charged. The prosecutor, the circuit attorney has apparently decided her job as a prosecutor isn’t to keep us safe from criminals but to keep the criminals say from us. It’s a bizarre upside down world. I’ve been a little irritated by this process until today and now I am just flat out pissed off. This has gotten to be outrageous.
CARLSON: You should be afraid too. The force of the state is coming down on you for exercising the most basic rights that exists, it&#8217;s a natural right, the right of self-defense. Are you going to stay in a place that seeks to put you in prison for defending yourself?
MCCLOSKEY: You know, everybody has to stand up and do what’s right. I’m not going to be bullied. I’m not going to be intimidated. The left, the mob uses social intimidation and threats to get people to knuckle under and apologize for doing what’s right. We are not going to apologize for doing what’s right. We are not going to back down and we are not going to move. People need to stand up, wake up and recognize it for what it is. It’s a concerted effort to destroy our way of life, to change the fundamental basic social contract, to do away with capitalist democracy and replace it with mob rule, encouraging violence, protecting criminals from prosecuting people to try to defend themselves against it. It’s a bizarre world. It’s time for people to wake up and pay attention to it.
CARLSON: Has anyone explained what you were supposed to do in a situation where the police would not respond, they would not come to protect you despite the fact you pay them and private security wouldn’t come either, probably for fear of being sued? What were you supposed to do once people break in and start threatening you?
MCCLOSKEY: What various commentators have suggested is we should have gone inside and film them with our cell phones. Well, do you want to have 300 people inside your house breaking stuff, setting fires and killing you or would you rather stop them when they are outside. We chose to stop them from coming in.
CARLSON: What’s going to happen now? Do you have a fear of going to prison?
MCCLOSKEY: You know, I don’t know. I have very little familiarity with criminal process. We have gotten support now from the White House on down. Governor Parson, there&#8217;s a senator, Eric Schmidt our Attorney General. It seems like the only person in the United States that thinks we did something wrong is our circuit attorney, but she&#8217;s the same person that let out of jail everybody that was responsible for the looting and fires and destruction following the George Floyd death in the city of St. Louis. The only people she wants to prosecute are the people that defended themselves against it and nobody else to my knowledge.
CARLSON: So, you&#8217;ve been a target of crime. You haven’t backed down. You’ve gone on television repeatedly. People know where you live. And the state has now confiscated your firearms so you can&#8217;t protect yourself. On what grounds did they do that? Those were legally registered as far as I understand.
MCCLOSKEY: I guess the technicality of the law is they have to determine whether or not the weapons were capable of being fatal or causing serious bodily harm. So they have to take them and test them and that sort of thing. There will be some revelations to come out about that but the bottom line is that the police, I’ve said this before, the police who came out to issue the warrant didn’t want to have to do it. They knew they were just doing their job. They were very polite about it but nonetheless, you’re right. They present the mob to our door and then strip us of our ability to defend against it.</blockquote>

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St. Louis homeowner Mark McCloskey appeared on Fox News&#039;s &quot;Tucker Carlson Tonight&quot; with host Tucker Carlson to discuss the breaking news from this

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In an interview Monday, a prominent Christian historian posited that the destructive chaos engulfing the country in recent months is likely rooted in a hatred of divine authority.
Speaking with Fox News host Tucker Carlson about the recent string of attacks against Christian churches, bestselling author Eric Metaxas first likened a <a href="https://twitter.com/GovHowardDean/status/1282013403238871040" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">recent anti-Christian tweet</a> from former DNC Chairman Howard Dean to the scapegoating behavior of the infamous emperor Nero, who blamed the Great Fire of Rome on first-century Christians.
Pivoting to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/catholic-churches-across-the-country-burned-vandalized-over-the-weekend">recent instances of church arson</a> and desecration of religious icons, Metaxas said, &#8220;I think a lot of the nastiness that is being directed at these statues, it really has to do with something deeper, Tucker. I hate to say it, but there&#8217;s something very dark. You saw this in the French Revolution. There was a hatred at the bottom of it of God, of any kind of authority.&#8221;
&#8220;These people are drunk with the idea that they can somehow be an authority themselves, that they can seize power,&#8221; Metaxas continued. &#8220;And if you really want to cut to the chase, you forget about statues of generals and things. You go right for God, you go right for the Virgin Mary. My goodness, you go right for churches. You cut to the chase.&#8221;
Going on to reference Captain Ahab&#8217;s rage against God in &#8220;Moby Dick,&#8221; Metaxas said, &#8220;That&#8217;s really where the source of hatred is coming from. It&#8217;s a hatred of God and a sense of deep injustice. That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re talking about here. We&#8217;re talking about something that goes way beyond Confederate generals.&#8221;
Carlson agreed with Metaxas&#8217; analysis, adding that &#8220;our leaders can&#8217;t stand&#8221; the idea of an authority higher than themselves. &#8220;I do think, though, that Christian leaders play a role in this,&#8221; Carlson continued, explaining that Muslim leaders would never countenance a mosque or Islamic monument being defaced. &#8220;I don&#8217;t see Christian leaders doing the same, and I don&#8217;t know why.&#8221;
Metaxas blamed widespread biblical illiteracy among Christian leaders as the reason behind their unwillingness to take a stand against evil. Referencing David killing Goliath and Elijah mocking the prophets of Baal, Metaxas said, &#8220;There are many instances of Scripture where people fight [&#8230;] That has been lost. There are many people that have got a watered-down kind of Christianity, they&#8217;re offended by Trump. They seem to think that being nice is what it means to be a Christian.&#8221;
Metaxas, who obtained fame for his 2009 biography of German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, appealed to Bonhoeffer&#8217;s legacy of resisting the mobs that roiled Germany during the Nazi regime. &#8220;When Kristallnacht happened, Bonhoeffer knew that this attack on the Jews by these who, as far as I&#8217;m concerned, were animated by the spirit of Antichrist — these were not just political mobs, there was something deeper and darker — he understood that this attack on the synagogues, it was an attack on God himself.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t like to use the word too lightly, but there was something satanic about it,&#8221; Metaxas added, and suggested violent protesters and vandals are partaking of the same spirit.
Metaxas and Carlson echoed the sentiment of Rev. LeRoy Marshall, whose majority-black church in New Albany, Indiana, was recently vandalized when &#8220;BLM&#8221; graffiti was spray painted on their statue of Lucy Higgs Nichols, an escaped slave and Civil War nurse.
Marshall told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-sign-of-the-times-black-pastor-laments-blm-vandalism-of-escaped-slave-statue" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Daily Wire</a> last week that &#8220;the church needs to be saying something. It’s been crickets, silent, about what’s going on. I think if anybody has something to say, it should be the church first. If you’re talking about justice, we believe that justice starts right here at the church. And as Christians, that’s what we believe. So why we’ve been so silent, I have no idea.”
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‘Hatred Of God’ Lies At Root Of Nationwide Vandalism, Christian Historian Says

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In an interview Monday, a prominent Christian historian posited that the destructive chaos engulfing the country in recent months is likely rooted in a

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