Tucker Carlson has said that Donald Trump‘s guilty verdict is due to the US having imported ‘the third world’ while saying he will win the November election ‘if he’s not killed first.’
The former president was found guilty Thursday on all 34 felony counts after a very brief deliberation. He faces sentencing July 11.
Carlson took to X, where his talk show has relocated since his departure from Fox News, to give his take.
‘Import the Third World, become the Third World. That’s what we just saw. This won’t stop Trump. He’ll win the election if he’s not killed first,’ he said.
He added: ‘But it does mark the end of the fairest justice system in the world. Anyone who defends this verdict is a danger to you and your family.’
Tucker Carlson says that Donald Trump ‘s guilty verdict is due to the US having imported ‘the third world’ while saying he will win the November election ‘if he’s not killed first’
Carlson has become a staunch ally of Trump, having interviewed him several times on his various programs, despite having revealed in private conversations that he ‘hates him with a passion’.
He even said he was flattered by rumors that he could be Trump’s vice presidential nominee, though he called the chances unlikely.
Other right-wing commentators were similarly dismayed and despairing over the verdict on social media.
‘A former president and current presidential candidate was just convicted of 34 felony charges by a jury of his political opponents during an election year based on a novel legal theory where the underlying alleged crime was never clearly explained and without requiring the jury to even reach a unanimous conclusion about it,’ Matt Walsh wrote.
He added: ‘This was the very definition of a show trial.’
Turning Point USA Director Charlie Kirk added: ‘We must win. We must defeat these savages. Stand with Trump. Take back America. Get to work.’
‘An absolute travesty — and, in all likelihood, a massive Constitutional mess,’ wrote Ben Shapiro.
Dan Bongino had an expletive-laden tirade, writing: ‘Dear Liberal Commie F***wads, Warning you now, we’ll be drinking your delicious tears in November. Laugh now motherfuckers, you’ll be crying soon. Bank on it.’
Prosecutors had a high bar to reach in order to convince the 12-person New York jury that Trump conspired to help his 2016 election campaign by paying pornstar Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about their alleged sexual encounters.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s wrapped up all the evidence and witness testimony they claimed was sufficient enough to nail Trump on 34 felony counts of ‘falsifying business records.’
Trump’s team tried 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 Trump solely wanted to spare his family humiliation from Stormy’s alleged affair claims.
The case is the first time a former U.S. President has faced a criminal trial.
Trump is the presumptive Republican presidential candidate and is set to take on Joe Biden in November’s election.
It means the verdict could upend the 2024 White House race and prove a pivotal moment in the history of the United States.
The charges Trump faces each carry a maximum potential sentence of up to four years in prison.
The former president was found guilty Thursday on all 34 felony counts after a very brief deliberation . He faces sentencing July 11
Trump supporters react as a verdict was reached in the criminal trial of former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump
Prosecutors told of a plot by Trump to ‘corrupt’ the 2016 election by hiding a $130,000 hush money payment by 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 by Daniels and lifted the lid on 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 reimbursements Trump signed for Cohen for the payment.
The reimbursements, paid by Trump in monthly installments, were recorded as being for legal expenses.
Prosecutors say that was a fraudulent label designed to conceal the purpose of the hush money transaction and to illicitly interfere in the 2016 election.
Defense lawyers argued that Cohen actually did substantive legal work for Trump and his family and was paid for it.
In a marathon day of closing arguments on Tuesday prosecutors and defense lawyers lawyers had one final chance to score points with jurors as they embarked on their momentous task.
Stormy Daniels a key witness in the trial, with Donald Trump in 2006
The two sides offered wildly different accounts of Trump’s culpability, the strength of the evidence, and the credibility of witnesses.
Prosecutors accused Trump of trying to ‘hoodwink’ voters in the 2016 election by stifling 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 jurors.
He said Daniels’ story was ‘messy’ and ‘probably makes some of you uncomfortable to hear, but that’s kind of the point.
‘In the simplest terms, Stormy Daniels is the motive.’
But Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche said Daniels could not be trusted.
And he branded the star prosecution witness – Cohen – as the ‘greatest liar of all time,’ giving him the acronym ‘the GLOAT’.
Blanche said: ‘President Trump is innocent. He did not commit any crimes, and the district attorney has not met their burden of proof, period.’
Both sides of the story of the Trump hush money trial react to the verdict of guilty of the former president
Trump did not take the stand to give evidence in his own defense.
Towards the end of the trial Trump posted angrily on social media that he was the victim of a ‘Kangaroo Court!’ and added: ‘In God We Trust!’
Jurors heard the payoff to Daniels in 2016 unfolded against the backdrop of the disclosure of a 2005 ‘Access Hollywood’ recording in which Trump could be heard bragging about grabbing women sexually without their permission.
Had the Daniels story emerged in the aftermath of the ‘Access Hollywood’ scandal it would have further damaged his campaign, the court heard.
Steinglass told jurors: ‘It’s not about whether you like Michael Cohen. It’s not about whether you want to go into business with Michael Cohen.
‘It’s whether he has useful, reliable information to give you about what went down in this case, and the truth is that he was in the best position to know.’