Tucker Carlson says Donald Trump’s guilty verdict is because the United States imported “the third world” and says he will win the November election “if they don’t kill him first.”
The former president was found guilty Thursday of all 34 felonies after a very brief deliberation. He faces sentencing on July 11.
Carlson went to X, where his talk show has moved since his departure from Fox News, to give his opinion.
‘Import the Third World, become the Third World. That’s what we just saw. This won’t stop Trump. “He will win the elections if they don’t kill him first,” he stated.
And he added: “But it does mark the end of the fairest justice system in the world.” Anyone who defends this sentence is a danger to you and your family.
Tucker Carlson says Donald Trump’s guilty verdict is because the United States imported “the third world” and says he will win the November election “if they don’t kill him first.”
Prosecutors had to reach a high bar to convince a 12-person New York jury that Trump conspired to help his 2016 election campaign by paying porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about their alleged sexual encounters. .
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg assembled all the evidence and witness testimony that they claimed was enough to charge Trump with 34 felony counts of “falsifying business records.”
Trump’s team attempted to lay out a strong defense of the former president, distancing him from Cohen’s payments to Stormy Daniels.
They also reiterated several of their strongest points, that hush money payments are not illegal and that Trump only wanted to avoid his family’s humiliation over Stormy’s alleged affair claims.
This is the first time that a former president of the United States faces a criminal trial.
Trump is the presumptive Republican presidential candidate and will face Joe Biden in the November election.
It means the verdict could upend the race for the White House in 2024 and constitute a pivotal moment in American history.
Each of the charges Trump faces carries a potential maximum sentence of up to four years in prison.
Carlson went to X, where his talk show has moved since his departure from Fox News, to give his opinion.
The former president was found guilty Thursday of all 34 felonies after a very brief deliberation. He faces sentencing on July 11.
Prosecutors spoke of a plot by Trump to “corrupt” the 2016 election by hiding a $130,000 payment from his “fixer” Michael Cohen to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Daniels alleged that she and Trump had sex a decade earlier, which he has denied.
The case featured explosive evidence from Daniels and exposed the “catch-and-kill” practices of the National Enquirer tabloid, which bought stories that could be damaging to Trump and suppressed them.
But the actual criminal charges concern something more prosaic: the refunds Trump signed for Cohen for the payment.
The refunds, paid by Trump in monthly installments, were recorded as legal expenses.
Prosecutors say it was a fraudulent label designed to conceal the purpose of the hush money transaction and unlawfully interfere in the 2016 election.
Defense attorneys argued that Cohen actually performed substantial legal work for Trump and his family and was paid for it.
In a marathon day of closing arguments Tuesday, prosecutors and defense attorneys had one last chance to score points with jurors as they embarked on their momentous task.
The two sides offered wildly different accounts of Trump’s guilt, the strength of the evidence and the credibility of the witnesses.
Prosecutors accused Trump of trying to “deceive” voters in the 2016 election by suppressing embarrassing stories that could torpedo his campaign.
“The name of the game was concealment, and all roads lead inescapably to the man who benefited the most: the defendant, former President Donald Trump,” prosecutor Joshua Steinglass told the jury.
He said Daniels’ story was “confusing” and “will probably make some of you uncomfortable hearing it, but that’s the point.”
“In simpler terms, Stormy Daniels is the reason.”
But Trump’s lawyer, Todd Blanche, said Daniels couldn’t be trusted.
And he called the prosecution’s star witness, Cohen, the “biggest liar of all time,” giving him the acronym “the GLOAT.”
Blanche said: ‘President Trump is innocent. He committed no crime and the district attorney has not met his burden of proof, period.
Trump did not take the stand to present evidence in his own defense.
Towards the end of the trial, Trump angrily posted on social media that he was the victim of a ‘Kangaroo Court’. and added: ‘In God we trust!’
Jurors heard how the payment to Daniels unfolded in 2016 in the context of the release of a 2005 ‘Access Hollywood’ recording in which Trump could be heard bragging about sexually grabbing women without their permission.
If Daniels’ story had emerged after the ‘Access Hollywood’ scandal, it would have further damaged her campaign, the court heard.
Steinglass told the jury: “It’s not about whether you like Michael Cohen.” It’s not about whether you want to do business with Michael Cohen.
“It’s about whether you have useful, reliable information to give you about what happened in this case, and the truth is you were in the best position to know that.”