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Tucker goes deep on Trump golf course gunman and his DC connections

September 20, 2024 | | Print Article

Former President Donald Trump shared a damning video clip of Tucker Carlson talking about the man arrested for what authorities believe was a second assassination attempt on the former president while he was golfing in Florida and the suspect’s dubious ties to the media and other agencies in DC.

Speaking during an appearance on his live tour program, Carlson began with a focus on Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and how he is trying to blame Iran for the latest attempt on Trump’s life, insisting that the “warmonger” is lying. That’s when he turned his attention to Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspected gunman spotted by a Secret Service agent.

“Well, the guy who shot Trump was also a warmonger and in fact, the closer you look at it, the more you realize his politics are exactly the same as Lindsey Graham’s, he’s a neocon. He literally volunteered in Ukraine,” Carlson said, before noting Routh “has been interviewed by every media outlet in Washington.”

“This guy was like a very famous guy. You, you may not even know this. There’s only really one place to learn any facts at all, and that’s Elon Musk’s social media app. It’s crazy,” he added.

Insisting that the media is “not telling you the facts,” Tucker said, “Reality is completely distorted and the average person has not only no idea, but no way of knowing what the truth is.”

“So, the guy who is now in custody for attempted murder against the Republican nominee, the former U.S. president, Donald Trump, that guy has been interviewed countless times by every big media outlet in the United States,” he said. “He’s got a criminal record the length of your arm, 20 charges including possession of weapons of mass destruction.”

“The New York Times didn’t bother to learn any of that before they held him up as a freedom fighter in Ukraine where he was living,” Carlson continued. “And then the piece describes the contact he’s had with members of Congress and their staffs and other U.S. government agencies. And you’re like, wait a second. That’s the same guy who brought a rifle with a scope to a golf course in South Florida to murder Donald Trump. And he’s had all these contacts with U.S. government agencies?”

Stressing that it’s time to find out what’s going on here, Carlson predicted that “no one’s gonna find out.” He also predicted that the story is “just gonna be memory-holed in a week.”

The one chance of the truth coming out is that the state of Florida is conducting its own investigation, but Gov. Ron DeSantis has already stated that federal investigators are “not being cooperative.”

“I am concerned. For example, we were rebuffed, our investigators were rebuffed just going to the fence line outside of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach,” DeSantis said Thursday night during an appearance on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle.

Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen on the free speech platform X:

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