Tucker Carlson, former Fox News firebrand, backs President Donald Trump in 2024 presidential bid.
In an interview with Roseanne Barr, Carlson said “Even if I disagreed with Trump on a lot, I’d still be a Trump supporter.”
The media personality slammed US authorities as they raided Trump’s Mar-A-Lago last summer.
The search conducted in the former president’s home was part of a federal investigation into his handling of “classified documents” in the summer of 2022.
The former television personality also noted that part of the reason he plans to vote for Trump is because he doesn’t feel the former president is guilty of any crimes.
“By the way, if I thought that he had committed some real crime, I wouldn’t feel that way. But he didn’t,” Carlson added.
Carlson further told Barr, “It’s bigger than Trump, bigger than Biden. It’s do you want to live in a free country with a functioning justice system.”
He also declared that he is “voting for Trump, and if they convict him, I will send him max donations and I will lead protests.”
Before this interview, Trump had already expressed that he eyes Carlson to be his running mate in the upcoming presidential election. Trump said in early November that he liked the former Fox News host “because he’s got great common sense.”
The MAGA leader also said, “You know, when they say that you guys are conservative, or I’m conservative, it’s not that we’re conservative, we have common sense.
“We want to have safe borders. We want to have a wall because walls work.”
Trump also opted to go to Tucker instead of attending the GOP debate last August where they discussed election fraud and civil war.
In September, Carlson also reflected on what “the future holds” for the former president in an interview with Adam Carolla. He narrated how Trump faced impeachment and indictments by the state, yet they failed to stop the MAGA leader.
“If you begin with criticism, then you go to protest, then you go to impeachment, now you go to indictment and none of them work. What’s next? Graph it out, man. We’re speeding towards assassination, obviously. … They have decided — permanent Washington, both parties have decided — that there’s something about Trump that’s so threatening to them, they just can’t have him,”
When probed about the possibility of him joining the Trump 2024 train, Carlson responded, “I put that in the category of an asteroid striking the Earth.”
He further said, “I guess I’d have to think about that.”
The host explained that at this moment it is hard to wrap his head around the idea, as he has “spent [his] whole life looking at politicians and commenting on them and passing judgment on them, and I’ve never run for, you know, room mother,” he said.
