Tucker Carlson predicts Donald Trump’s murder and US war with Russia

Tucker Carlson suggested intelligence agencies would orchestrate Trump’s murder if his indictments failed to stem the former president’s comeback.

Tucker Carlson sits down for an interview with former President Donald Trump. Tucker on X

Controversial American journalist Tucker Carlson has speculated Donald Trump would be assassinated if it looked like he would be re-elected president, and predicted the US would be in a hot war with Russia before the 2024 election.

Mr Carlson, a twenty year veteran of US cable news, who departed Fox earlier this year, suggested without evidence that US intelligence agencies and their political allies would be left with little option but to orchestrate Trump’s murder after “name-calling”, impeachments, and a series of indictments, had failed to snuff out a potential Trump comeback.

“They fabricated a lot about what happened on January 6th, in order to impeach him again, it didn‘t work; he came back then they indicted him, it didn’t work; they indicted him three more times, and every single time his popularity rose,” Mr Carlson said during a one-hour interview.

“What‘s next? I mean, let’s graph it out, man. We’re speeding toward assassination, obviously, and no one will say that but I don’t, I don’t know how you can’t reach that conclusion,” he added, speaking on Wednesday (Thursday AEST) on a podcast with California radio personality Adam Carolla.

“Both parties have decided that there‘s something about Trump this that’s so threatening to them. They just can’t have it.”

Mr Carlson, 54, has self-published a series of interviews with famous political figures on X since his departure from Fox News, where he had hosted the top rating cable news show, in April, including with Donald Trump, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban and Robert F Kennedy.

“They were able to participate in the murder of a US president and then hide that fact for 60 years by keeping those documents classified, which they still are. It‘s unbelievable,” he added, referring to CIA documents related to the assassination of John F Kennedy that were meant to be released in 2017.

The exchange about assassination was prompted by an well known on-air conversation between Democrat Senate leader Chuck Schumer and MSNBC host Rachel Maddow in 2017, when the former warned then president Donald Trump against criticising the intelligence agencies.

“You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you. So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he‘s being really dumb to do this,” Senator Schumer had said.

Mr Carlson said FBI and CIA efforts to suppress the New York Post’s October 2020 story about Hunter Biden’s laptop before the 2020 election, which turned out to be true, in co-ordination with major tech companies reflected an influence that wasn’t sufficiently understood among the public.

“They were able to participate in the murder of a US president and then hide that fact for 60 years by keeping those documents classified, which they still are,” Mr Carlson said, referring to the assassination of JFK in 1963 which spawned an industry of conspiratorial claims that disputed the ‘lone gunman’ theory.

“They‘re going to go to war with Russians, what they’re going to do. There will be a hot war between the United States and Russia in the next year,” Mr Carlson also suggested, in the context of how Democrats could remain in power nationally in the event of recession in the US next year.

“So we are fighting Russia, but I mean an open battle with Russia, where we say ‘we‘re at war with Russia’,” he said, speculating about a situation where missiles landed in Poland and Russia was blamed, triggering a war.

“I don‘t think we’ll win it, but that’s a separate analysis; but I think as apolitical matter, they need to declare war footing in order to assume war powers in order to win [the election],” he went on.

Mr Carlson, who is typically cast as an ally of the Republican party, said both President Biden and Republican senate leader Mitch McConnell were ‘senile’, and slammed the “low IQ wing” of the Republican party for supporting US efforts to arm Ukraine.

“Most of the Republican Party is low IQ at the leadership level,” he explained, singling out former vice president Mike Pence and GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley as part of that group.

In an interview filled with controversial opinions, Mr Carlson also hypothesised that “certain upper income college educated American woman” were widely “despised” because of their “hectoring stupidity” about race relations and Covid-19.

“It‘s probably 15 per cent of the total American population. They have wildly disproportionate power over everything, but they mostly have cultural power”.