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 many people that there is a spiritual battle going on,” he said at an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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He continued, “There is no logical way to understand what we are seeing right now in terms of time. It is impossible. This is not a political division. There are forces whose only purpose is chaos, violence and destruction, which are now very clear, and which, for some reason, 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.
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“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.”
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.”
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