Conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson said Monday that the recent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump is further evidence that sinister spiritual forces are at work in the United States.
Carlson, speaking at a Heritage Foundation event during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, also noted that Christians pose the greatest threat to destructive spiritual forces that have taken various forms throughout history.
Echoing an April 2023 speech he gave at the Heritage Foundation’s 50th anniversary celebrations just days before he was unceremoniously booted from Fox News, Carlson reiterated on Monday that the increasingly irrational and violent nature of the country’s political struggle suggests it’s “deeper” than politics.
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“I think the attempted assassination of President Trump on Saturday has reminded or awakened a lot of people to this: There is a spiritual war going on,” he said.
“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 division. There are forces there 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,” he continued.
Tucker Carlson talks about the assassination attempt on President Trump:
“There is a spiritual battle going on.”Tucker Carlson@heritagepic.twitter.com/M3wTjM13IC
— Tucker Carlson Network (@TCNetwork) July 15, 2024
Carlson also warned that the same dark forces that animated revolutionary movements in the past have resurfaced in the United States and that they have a universal hatred for Christianity.
“What group do they hate the most?” he asked. “What group do they fear the most and want to eliminate? It’s Christians. It’s them.”
Carlson joked that it took him 10 years to come to this realization, saying he was “not a particularly devout lifelong Christian.”
“I haven’t spent my whole life praying under the covers of incense smoke. I’ve spent my whole life saying the F-word in newsrooms,” he said, but added that what the revolutionary and destructive forces currently active in the US hate most are “Christian nationalists, people who pray outside abortion clinics, people who celebrate Easter instead of Transgender Visibility Day.”
Carlson also suggested that a “dark” combative attitude is rampant within the Republican Party, which he argued is why many in the party hate Trump and are seriously trying to topple him.
“You want to know what they care about? All they care about is war. That’s it, that’s all they care about,” Carlson said. He added that immigration, the economy and Trump’s “foul language” are not important to his Republican primary opponents, who he argued only want god-like powers by perpetuating war.
Carlson noted that Trump is the first president since Jimmy Carter not to start a new war or escalate a U.S. military conflict, and argued that Trump is “getting in their way.”
“What they want is the power to kill. That’s the power that everyone who wants to be a god wants. That’s why human sacrifices were performed: ‘I have the power to kill.’ Only gods have the power over life and death and that’s what they want,” he said.
Carlson has repeatedly emphasized similar sentiments in recent months, particularly since leaving Fox News. As The Christian Post reported in March, Carlson spoke to a crowd of Republicans in Fort Worth, Texas, about recognizing the spiritual battle behind the country’s political struggles.
“This is not flesh and blood at all. If you are offended by prayer, then you have no choice but to follow orders. I can’t find any other rational explanation,” he said.
“We can reduce the debate about climate, crime and queer sex. I’m not going to give it a name and dignity, but I’ll just call it ‘queer sex.’ But if they’re promising you the opportunity to castrate your children, what are they really promising? No grandchildren. The end of your family line,” he continued.
“And Solomon [and] “David will immediately recognize that this is an act of all-out war against you and your people,” he added, “because that is what it is.”
In his speech on Monday, Carlson praised Trump’s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, and said his candidate’s victory was virtually assured after Trump showed bravery and defiance following the shooting at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.
Tucker Carlson responded to President Trump’s nomination of J.D. Vance as his running mate.Tucker Carlson@heritagepic.twitter.com/S2cgCyC3Hv
— Tucker Carlson Network (@TCNetwork) July 15, 2024
“Let’s be honest with you, Trump won. He won,” he said. “Not only did he survive an assassination attempt, he stood up without knowing if there was another shooter. He stood up, he put his hands up in the air, he said to the crowd, ‘Fight, fight, fight!’ That’s it. That’s how you win.”
John Brown is a reporter for The Christian Post. Send your news tips to jon.brown@christianpost.com.
