Faced with a cease and desist letter from the corporate media network that used to air him, Tucker Carlson continued undeterred to take a blowtorch to “permanent Washington” on Twitter and this time he revealed “the precise moment” they “decided to send Donald Trump to prison.”
Premiering Tuesday evening, a few hours after the former president left a Miami federal courthouse having pleaded not guilty to 37 felony counts, the one-time Fox News host once again upended the establishment paradigm to millions of viewers.
Laying out the facts, Carlson began, “The Biden administration arrested Donald Trump this afternoon. They had him arraigned and fingerprinted in a Miami courthouse like the accused felon he now technically is. These are the first steps in a process that is designed to put Donald Trump behind bars for the rest of his life. Cable news carried every moment of it live: ‘It’s unprecedented,’ they told us, with what looked like shock.”
Ep. 3 America’s principles are at stake pic.twitter.com/eJNSUVvvqY
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 13, 2023
However, the reality was something he suggests was evident to everyone paying attention. In fact, the commentator said, “It’s been inevitable since February 16, 2016.”
“That’s the day Donald Trump made a blood enemy of the largest and most powerful organization in human history,” Carlson declared, “which would be the federal government.”
Though he had specified that particular Tuesday, the reference was to the Republican primary debate from three days prior when then-candidate Trump had asserted in an exchange with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, “We should’ve never been in Iraq. We have destabilized the Middle East.”
“They lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction. There were none and they knew there were none. There were no weapons of mass destruction,” Trump charged.
Trump goes for Jeb’s jugular: Your brother ‘LIED’ to start war in Iraq https://t.co/0uuIYVEVPg pic.twitter.com/guUPQKZbSR
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) February 15, 2016
Carlson argued nothing else the businessman had said prior had riled the powers that be.
“Identity politics doesn’t mean much to permanent Washington. What matters, then and now, is foreign policy. The invasions and occupations and proxy wars. The decisions which determine which global populations will thrive, and which will die. The policies that come with trillion-dollar price tags. The ones that, over time, made the counties around D.C. the richest suburbs in the world,” he said.
He continued “…when Congress decides to start a war, no matter how foolish or counterproductive or obviously disconnected from America’s core interests that war may be — when that happens, the leaders of both parties automatically jump behind it like circus clowns.”
The same was said for when that well was determined to have run dry. “Until then, no dissent is allowed. That’s the first rule of Washington. But somehow Trump didn’t bother to follow it.”
“He is from out of town so maybe he didn’t know it was a rule. Maybe he just didn’t care,” Carlson presented. “Either way, seven and a half years later, we can point to the precise moment that permanent Washington decided to send Donald Trump to prison.”
After airing the clip, the commentator, who himself is under fire for bucking the status quo with a persistence that got him removed from the number one primetime news show on cable television and since slapped with a cease and desist letter from Fox News for allegedly violating his contract, asserted, “By saying that, he sealed his fate. That was the one thing you were not allowed to say because it implicated too many people on both sides — which on this topic is really just one side.”
Carlson also took shots at some he argued had worked on the inside to tackle Trump’s mission to drain the swamp, including his Vice President Mike Pence, UN ambassador Nikki Haley, ally South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, and CIA director turned Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who appeared on Fox News Tuesday morning to lambast the president over his handling of classified documents.
“Who’s the appointee most likely to tell Donald Trump on a daily basis that he was handsome, virile, sleek and powerful?” the commentator asked. “Mike Pompeo — that would be the consensus answer.”
“Most of permanent Washington decided that thwarting Trump was the single most important mission in their lives,” Carlson ultimately concluded.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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