Fox News’ Tucker Carlson rebuked the widely-criticized indictment of former president Donald Trump by left-wing New York DA Alvin Bragg this week.
“The liberal blog Politico this morning ran a piece describing what it called President Joe Biden’s most senior advisers, predicting that Trump will be the Republican nominee,” Carlson said. “And because he has now been charged with crimes, he will lose the general election. Thanks to this criminal case, the Biden White House believes that swing voters, the critical voters in a presidential election, are now permanently out of Trump’s reach.'”
“And just to make certain that swing voters never fall within Trump’s reach, Donald Trump is scheduled to be back in court in New York with the accompanying media circus just weeks before the first Republican primary,” Carlson noted. “This is the boldest election interference ever attempted in this country’s history.”
Trump was criminally charged because he’s planning to challenge Joe Biden in the presidential election. It’s that simple. pic.twitter.com/Bl0XiqHLb5
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) April 5, 2023
The Fox News host continued, “And if you doubt that, if you think it’s maybe on the level, then we suggest you look carefully at the indictment that was unveiled today. Donald Trump, as you’ve probably heard, has been charged with 34 separate crimes. Those crimes turn out on close examination to be the same crime repeated 34 times, and that crime is “falsifying business records in the first degree.”
Carlson then examined Bragg’s claim that “Donald Trump has committed a crime not by changing business records, but by changing business records in order to conceal another, more serious crime or to defraud somebody.”
“So let’s take this in order. What is the more serious crime?” Carlson asked. “Well, we have no idea, because Bragg hasn’t told us. No such more serious crime is listed in the indictment. And critically, and this really is the point. Donald Trump has not been charged with another more serious crime.”
“So what we have as of tonight is an indictment that does not allege specific violations of the law,” Carlson concluded. “Well, that’s, of course, unconstitutional, but it’s also farcical.”
