Conservative media personality Tucker Carlson predicted former President Trump could be assassinated in a new interview, days after he asked Trump if he worried about such an outcome.
“Begin with criticism, then you go to protest, then you go to impeachment, now you go to indictment, and none of them work. I mean what’s next?” Carlson asked during an appearance this week on comedian Adam Carolla’s podcast.
“You know, graph it out man! We’re speeding toward assassination, obviously. No one will say that, but I don’t know how you can’t reach that conclusion.”
The pundit’s comments came a week after Carlson hosted an interview with Trump that was published on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
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During the interview, Carlson asked Trump directly if he thought he could be killed given the various congressional and criminal investigations he has faced in recent years.
“Are you worried that they’re going to try and kill you? Why wouldn’t they try and kill you? Honestly,” Carlson asked Trump.
“They’re savage animals; they’re people that are sick,” the former president responded.
Trump has been indicted four times this year in connection with his personal business dealings in New York, handling of classified documents in Florida and efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 election in Georgia and Washington, D.C.
He has pleaded not guilty in response to all of the charges he faces and has dismissed the indictments as political.
The front-runner for the GOP nomination for president in 2024, Trump sat for the interview with Carlson instead of attending the first Republican primary debate last week, which aired on Fox News.
Carlson left Fox in April and has since launched a version of his former prime-time show on X.