Conservative journalist and commentator Tucker Carlson said that the moment former President Donald Trump raised his fist to the crowd after he was shot at a rally in Pennsylvania last Saturday, he “became the leader of this country.”
meanwhile Busy Carlson explained that at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Trump was shot with a “bullet through the top of his right ear” and after “being shot in the face,” he stood up, wiped blood from his face, raised his fist and “from that moment on, everything changed.”
“I’ve watched the video of what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, maybe 15 or 50 times,” Carlson told the audience. “I was probably one of about 8 billion people around the world who watched it, and the more I watched it, the more I was struck by how everything has changed since that moment. Everything. This convention has changed. The country has changed. The world has changed. Donald Trump has changed.”
Tucker Carlson describes the moment Trump was shot:
“The leader is the bravest person. That’s who the leader is. That’s true of every human institution. That’s the law of nature. And at that moment, Donald Trump became the leader of this country, just a few months before the presidential election.” pic.twitter.com/wDiwWv1Ewt
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“The moment he stood up, bloody from being shot in the face, and put his hands up, I knew that was a change. He was no longer a human being,” Carlson continued, adding that he also believed it was “divine intervention.”
Carlson added that at that point Trump was “no longer just” a political party candidate, a “former president” or even a “future president.”
“He was a leader of a nation. I think there’s a difference. I’ve spent most of my life in Washington, where the president is at the top of the pyramid,” Carlson continued. “But if you think about it, the presidency naturally carries great power. But if you think about it, it’s a title that’s bestowed by some process, it can be overturned, and at the end of the day, unlike other titles, it doesn’t confer legitimacy on itself.”
“Just because someone calls themselves the president doesn’t inherently mean that much,” the former Fox News host noted, adding that calling your dog the “CEO of Hewlett-Packard” doesn’t mean the dog is actually the CEO.
“Being a leader is very different,” Carlson added. “It’s not a title, it’s natural. You can’t label somebody a leader. The leader is the person who is the bravest. That’s who they are. This is true of every human organization. It’s a law of nature. And at that moment, a few months before the presidential election, Donald Trump became the leader of this country.”
On Saturday, during a rally in Pennsylvania, suspect Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, opened fire on Trump from a nearby rooftop while looking directly at the former president.
In addition to injuring Trump, former Pennsylvania fire chief Corey Comperatore also died after Trump “threw his wife and daughter to the ground in an attempt to protect them” after he was shot. Two other people at the rally were also injured.
