Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson got into a heated exchange with a student this week.
During a Turning Point USA debate at Indiana University Bloomington, Carlson threatened to “kick” a student’s “a**” after he accused Carlson’s late father of working for the CIA.
The student asked Carlson, “So, I kinda just don’t see a lot of change between, you know, the Biden administration and now the Trump one on foreign policy. You know, we’re still giving a sh*t ton of money to like Israel and Ukraine. Nothing is happening. You know, the war’s not stopped. You promised it’d be done in a day and it’s, I don’t know, how many months? Eight months or something like that? It’s a long time. Your dad was in the CIA and I was wondering, does our government even want war to stop? Do they want conflicts to end? It seems like we have a difference of interests where we’re getting told one thing and the other is happening and I feel like there’s not enough communication between different sects of government, and I just really think the deep state’s controlling everything and we have no control.”
Carlson was not happy about the question.
“You probably sense that I agree with a lot of that. Obviously, leave my father out of it. I’m gonna have to kick your ass — which I could do by the way — if you bring him up again ’cause he was a wonderful man, whatever, you know, he did for a living. So I really do hate that,” Carlson declared.
Currently, there is no evidence indicating that Carlson’s father, Dick Carlson, was employed by the CIA. Carlson’s father died in March at the age of 84.
In the same event, Carlson engaged in a contentious exchange with another student, instructing him to “get off the f*cking internet” after the student asserted that Carlson’s net worth was $50 million.
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A former assistant U.S. attorney says that Tyler Robinson’s motive for allegedly killing TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk may be more crucial during the sentencing phase because prosecutors will try to “dirty up” the defendant in hopes that juries will give him the death penalty.
Officials say Robinson killed Kirk at a TPUSA event on September 10 at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.
He is being charged with aggravated murder, two counts of obstructing justice, criminal discharge of a handgun inflicting serious bodily injury, two charges of witness tampering, and committing a violent crime in front of a child.
Authorities say Robinson is claimed to have killed Kirk because he “had enough of his hatred” and “some hate can’t be negotiated out.”
Robinson is due in court on October 30.
Court papers show that Robinson sent his roommate, Lance Twiggs, a text message requesting him to “look under my keyboard.”
“I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk, and I’m going to take it,” read a note photographed by Robinson’s roommate, according to authorities.
“You weren’t the one who did it right????” the roommate allegedly wrote to Robinson.
“I am, I’m sorry,” Robinson said, according to the court documents.
Neama Rahmani, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, told Fox News that prosecutors will use this evidence more during the punishment phase to try to get the jury to give Robinson the death penalty.
“The Utah County prosecutor is going to try to put Robinson to death, and the motive for the killing is going to be something that is key evidence in the case. It’s going to dirty up Robinson,” Rahmani said.
Rahmani added that Robinson will only get the death penalty if all 12 jurors agree that he should be killed for his claimed offenses. This makes it even more critical for prosecutors to explain clearly why they think he should be murdered.
