Jason Aldean recalls Las Vegas massacre in sit-down with Tucker

Country music star Jason Aldean looked back at the tragic Las Vegas massacre and recalled how he ran for his life the night a gunman opened fire at a music festival where he performed.

The Grammy-nominated singer spoke with Tucker Carlson in a wide-ranging interview, recounting his experience on that tragic night in 2017 when 60 people died and more than 400 were injured at the Route 91 Harvest music festival. He also discussed his political evolution, noting that his support for former President Donald Trump “just kind of happened.”

“Jason Aldean survived the 2017 Las Vegas massacre only to have his character assassinated by the media. He’s bigger than ever,” Carlson’s post of the interview was captioned.

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“I went out to play a show like I always do. You expect to go out there for an hour and a half, two hours, get done, come back, and hang out with your guys, get on the plane, bus, whatever it is, and go home,” Aldean recalled. “That night it was just a different story. It was something that a lot of guys in my camp, my crew, it kind of messed a lot of people up for a while.”

“I can’t really hear anything but my band. I just kind of heard something that sounded like it was cracking, but it was the gun going off. It was coming through the microphones, and it just sounded weird. But I didn’t know what it was,” Aldean said.

He recounted how there was a break in the gunfire and how he and his wife Brittany made a run for safety.

“We got about halfway there then he started shooting again. She kind of froze up and I grabbed her and took her to the bus, got in the back of the bus,” he told Carlson. “You just go and see the aftermath after it happened. There’s bullet holes in the front of my bus and the side of my band bus. The windows got shot out of the band bus. My bass player, who was on stage, one of my best friends for 25 years, and was standing next to me, had a bullet lodged in the bass he was playing at the time.”

“The toughest part was going through all that and then you get home and you’re watching the news trying to figure out, why did this guy do this? What was his reasoning? Why this show? And you never really got any answers about any of that stuff,” he said.  “Still, to this day, we don’t really know much about it.”

Aldean told Carlson he was not much into politics but seemed to get more involved with the election of Trump who he called a “cool guy.” The singer and his wife have been guests at Trump’s Florida resort home, Mar-a-Lago and he has played golf with the current GOP nominee.

 

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“I love Trump, man,” Aldean told Carlson. “So, we ended up getting invited to New Year’s at Mar-a-Lago. Honestly, when he ran in 2016, I was not political at all,” said Aldean. “I didn’t really get into it. I didn’t really understand it a whole lot. Didn’t pay much attention to it. But I did think it was cool that here’s this guy that is really not a politician.”

“And at the time, you had all the A-list stars were going, ‘Oh, Trump’s running for president.’ They were all excited and almost kind of like it was a joke. And then he won, and I don’t think anyone thought he would win, and for the next eight years, it has been nothing but trying to slander this guy, get him out, and just all the stuff you watch him deal with in the media,” he continued.

Aldean sparked the ire of the left last year and made headlines over his hit song and anthem, “Try That In a Small Town” which was focused on the state of the nation amid lawlessness and rioting.

The country star recently told concert-goers to “get out and vote” if they are unhappy with the way things are in the country right now.

“It’s a crazy ass time when the media makes me out to be the asshole for calling out people doing stupid sh*t. This country is crazy,” he said. “It’s gotten really weird over the last few years and I will say this: November is a huge month for our country. Huge month.”

“If you don’t get out and vote, you got no right to b–ch about the outcome of the election. If you want to see some sh-t change, then get out. It takes 30 minutes out of your day,” he told the crowd.

Frieda Powers

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