Trump interview with Tucker Carlson overshadows GOP debate


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Just minutes ahead of the first 2024 Republican presidential debate, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson published a 46-minute interview with former President Donald Trump to social media site X. As of 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 24, the post had over 177 million views, although the number of people who actually watched the interview is likely smaller.

The former president used some of the interview to engage with his Republican primary opponents, calling former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson “nasty” and saying former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is running “solely on the basis of ‘let’s get Trump.” As for Trump’s biggest competition, he described Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as “done-zo.”

As for his opponents across the aisle, Trump appeared to indulge a suggestion from Carlson that Democrats might try to end Trump’s life.

“I’m looking at the trajectory since 2015 when you got into politics for real, and then won,” Carlson said. “It started with protests against you, massive protests, organized protests by the left. And then it moved to impeachment twice, and now indictment. The next stage is violence. Are you worried that they’re going to try and kill you?”

“They’re savage animals. They are people that are sick, really sick,” Trump responded. “I’ve seen what they do, I’ve seen the lengths that they go to.”

Trump also addressed his absence from the debate in the Carlson interview, citing his massive lead in primary polls. A FiveThirtyEight average of national polls had Trump with a nearly 40-point lead over Gov. DeSantis as of Wednesday, Aug. 24.

“I’m saying, ‘Do I sit there for an hour or two hours, whatever it’s going to be and get harassed by people that shouldn’t even be running for president,’” Trump asked. “Should I be doing that?”

The debate and Trump interview came ahead of Trump’s expected surrender to Georgia authorities related to the state’s 2020 election indictment Thursday. Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis, three of the 18 co-defendants in the case, have already turned themselves in.

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Just minutes ahead of the first 2024 Republican presidential debate, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson published a 46-minute interview with former President Donald Trump to social media site X. As of 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 24, the post had over 177 million views, although the number of people who actually watched the interview is likely smaller.

The former president used some of the interview to engage with his Republican primary opponents, calling former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson “nasty” and saying former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is running “solely on the basis of ‘let’s get Trump.” As for Trump’s biggest competition, he described Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as “done-zo.”

As for his opponents across the aisle, Trump appeared to indulge a suggestion from Carlson that Democrats might try to end Trump’s life.

“I’m looking at the trajectory since 2015 when you got into politics for real, and then won,” Carlson said. “It started with protests against you, massive protests, organized protests by the left. And then it moved to impeachment twice, and now indictment. The next stage is violence. Are you worried that they’re going to try and kill you?”

“They’re savage animals. They are people that are sick, really sick,” Trump responded. “I’ve seen what they do, I’ve seen the lengths that they go to.”

Trump also addressed his absence from the debate in the Carlson interview, citing his massive lead in primary polls. A FiveThirtyEight average of national polls had Trump with a nearly 40-point lead over Gov. DeSantis as of Wednesday, Aug. 24.

“I’m saying, ‘Do I sit there for an hour or two hours, whatever it’s going to be and get harassed by people that shouldn’t even be running for president,’” Trump asked. “Should I be doing that?”

The debate and Trump interview came ahead of Trump’s expected surrender to Georgia authorities related to the state’s 2020 election indictment Thursday. Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis, three of the 18 co-defendants in the case, have already turned themselves in.

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