Tucker Carlson, a lifelong Episcopalian and conservative political commentator, said this week that he believes the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump is clear evidence that there is a “spiritual attack underway” in the United States.
“I think what happened on Saturday – the attempted assassination of President Trump – has reminded or awakened a lot of people that there is a spiritual war going on,” he said at an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
He continued, “There is no logical way to understand what we are seeing right now in terms of time. It is not possible. This is not a political divide. There are forces there whose only purpose is chaos, violence and destruction, and those forces are now very clear and, for some reason, they have decided to take off their masks.”
Carlson warned that he believes the forces rallying against President Trump today are rooted in the same spiritual undercurrents that have animated revolutionary movements of the past.
“What group do they hate the most?” he speculated. “What group do they fear the most and want to eliminate? It’s Christians. It’s them. Christians.”
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At the Republican National Convention taking place just around the corner from Milwaukee’s Symphony Hall where Carlson spoke, speakers expressed similar sentiments and claimed God had prevented Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump from being assassinated during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
One of the speakers was Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Republican), a staunch Trump supporter, who said from the podium that “not even an assassin’s bullet could stop the former president.”
“God saved President Trump from an assassin because He’s not done with him,” she said to applause, “and He certainly isn’t done with America. With God as his guide, President Trump can return to the White House and show the world that America is a place where freedom reigns and freedom never dies.”
“Almighty God has intervened because America is one nation under God and He is not done with President Trump yet,” the governor said mid-speech.
Other prominent leaders have similarly suggested that God has supernaturally protected Trump.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) posted on X, “If it had gone half an inch to the right he would not have survived. Trump is so lucky,” while Texas Rep. Dustin Burrows (R) wrote that he was “thanking God for protecting” the Republican presidential candidate.
Republican Rep. Byron Donald of Florida said at a town hall event in Milwaukee this week that he told Trump the “hand of God” was protecting him following last Saturday’s assassination attempt.
The Rev. Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, The Washington Post “I believe God protected him from having his brains scattered on the podium,” Trump said, adding that he hoped the assassination attempt would serve as a “wake-up call” for Trump, reminding him that “all authority comes from God.”
As for Trump himself, the presidential candidate told Tennessee Sen. Bill Hagerty that he believed “divine intervention” saved his life on Saturday. In a post on his platform, Truth Social, he wrote that “only God prevented the unthinkable.”
Sadly, one person was killed in the shooting at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Corey Comperatore, a volunteer firefighter from Butler, died while trying to protect his wife and daughter from gunfire.
Helen Comperatore, the victim’s widow, said: The New York Times She said she heard directly from Trump, who said the Republican presidential nominee was “very gracious and said he would continue to call me in the coming days and weeks.”
His widow recalled that her husband of 50 years said he “left this world a hero and that God had taken him in.”
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