Guests: Alex Berenson, Jason Whitlock
Fox News host Tucker Carlson shreds the FBI's raid on former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'This is a rush transcript from"Tucker Carlson Tonight," August 15, 2022. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.Happy Monday.
You just imagine al-Qaeda taking selfies with these documents, one after the other relentlessly, repulsive and terrifying.At this point, no one has provided proof that it is true, not that august historians like Michael Beschloss wait around for actual evidence before pronouncing final judgment on cable news shows. They just go ahead.
One of these documents, the most ultra-secret of them, contained a recipe for disappearing ink. Now, why would Federal bureaucrats spend an entire century hiding an outdated recipe for ink that you can buy legally in any magic store for your fifth grader? Good question. No one asked it. Here's the truth. The documents have been classified for a hundred years, not because disappearing ink was any sort of national security secret. They'd been classified because the government's default position in every case is that you have no right to see anything ever. It is their information. It is not yours.To this day, there are large amounts of classified information remaining from World War II.
Federal paramilitaries don't show up at your house when you violate the Presidential Records Act and in fact, as we later learned, the actual warrant for the raid, which was signed by an openly partisan Judge, because you couldn't make any of this up if you tried, once represented Jeffrey Epstein's side in the famous underage sex case, that Judge.
So, whatever else this raid was, this raid was not about the Presidential Records Act. That explanation is absurd. It's almost as ridiculous as the claim that the White House knew nothing about the raid before it happened. Right. Please.So, what was this raid about? Well, we're keeping track. So, here's the second explanation they gave us.
Did he plan to defect to Moscow? Give the launch codes to Vladimir Putin? start his own rogue state in the Bahamas? Nobody said. There was endless huffing on television about something called the rule of law and how absolutely no one is above that. No one. Not even a former President. That's true, but it's hard to hear those words anyway. As an American, you don't want to believe it and yet here are the essential facts.
A week to the day after Joe Biden was inaugurated, the FBI arrested a 31- year-old man from Vermont called Douglass Mackey. According to the subsequent DOJ press release, Mackey committed an extremely serious crime. Like Vladimir Putin, he conspired to subvert the 2016 presidential election. "Far-right Twitter troll" is not a technical term. In fact, it is no agreed upon meaning of any kind. It is slang and slang is something that serious newspapers never include in news stories, but in this case, the term"far right Twitter troll" had a use. It sent an unmistakable message to the country and in particular, to the rest of the media and it was this: Douglass Mackey is a dangerous person with unspeakably ugly views. He deserves to be locked up. And so he was.
Here's one of his means on the screen."#DraftOurDaughters," Mackey wrote in what was very obviously a fake tweet from the Hillary Clinton campaign."They are ready to go to war for her. Are you?" Pretty funny. Now the criminal complaint against Douglass Mackey actually spells that out. You can read it for yourself. It's still online.
You cannot be sent to prison for your political views ever. That is the core principle of the United States. That is the principle that Marines fought their way to the top of Mount Suribachi to protect. Today, the DOJ subpoenaed Eric Herschmann. He represented Trump during the first impeachment. Herschmann never worked in the White House counsel's office. The Biden administration is going after him anyway because he gave legal advice to his client, Donald Trump. That used to be allowed. People used to be allowed to have lawyers and speak to them privately, but it's not allowed anymore.
Then the FBI seized the phone of prominent conservative attorney, Victoria Toensing. She'd worked with Giuliani in 2020 to investigate election fraud. They raided her home. The point is, all of this is illegal. It violates the First Amendment. It violates long-established attorney-client privilege, but it's happening right in front of us a lot.
Of course, in the wake of the January 6 election justice protests, more than 900 people have been arrested and charged with crimes arising from that day, 900, almost all of them nonviolent, almost all of them with no previous criminal record. It turns out democracy is too important to let voters choose their own President, but if you take three steps back and consider what's actually going on, you'll see that none of this is really about Donald Trump, the man. It's about power and that means it's about crushing and humiliating anyone who gets in the way of people who want to retain power and that means anyone.Alex Berenson is a novelist and former"New York Times" reporter.
Think about what this means. These are acts of aggression and hostility aimed at Americans. No American President has ever done this. No American President has ever explicitly declared war on his own population and yet for the Biden administration, it's a near weekly occurrence. CARLSON: So, not to be too literal, but this is on some level a news show, that's a lie. None of what you heard is true. There's not a single statistic or piece of credible research to support what Biden or his Attorney General just said. Again, all of it is a lie.
Who knows how, maybe they'll produce surveillance video from Mar-a-Lago. Apparently, they've already subpoenaed that and we'll spend the next year talking about how it shows Trump mishandling classified information. Really? On a server. As if to prove it, they prove it every day, but in the hours after the Mar- a-Lago raid, the usual jackals on Twitter, begin demanding that Donald Trump should release the warrant that justified the raid."If you're not guilty, you'll show it to us," that's what they said.
And that means that we are at this point on the edge of something unprecedented and something awful. You could feel it. Even Donald Trump feels it. So as we said, we now have proof that Twitter is censoring people at the behest of the White House, which is illegal, because we just told you they did it to Alex Berenson and he's here to tell us exactly what happened.
Berenson found evidence that White House officials had met with Twitter and questioned the company's officials as to why Berenson"hasn't been kicked off the platform." I am going to do that as quickly as I can. I told you last year at about this time after Twitter kicked me off that I was going to sue Twitter. And then I thought I had a pretty good case and people mocked that. Guess what? A Federal Judge who was appointed by Bill Clinton, by the way, agreed it was a good case and that led to my being reinstated on Twitter a few weeks ago, or Twitter reinstating essentially. They were forced to as part of a settlement I reached with Twitter about the case.
CARLSON: Yes, I mean this is an attack on the most basic right, the fundamental right that we have which is the right of free speech and I'm just so grateful that you are -- that you beat Twitter and that you're going to get to the bottom of this.CARLSON: So Tony Fauci, in any normal system, would be disgraced slinking off into retirement. Now instead, he is bragging that he is inspiring young people with his moral leadership. He calls it the"Fauci Effect.
So because I happen to be a visible person, it could have been somebody else. It didn't have to be Fauci, it could have been Smith or Jones or somebody else, but they call it the Fauci effect, because I am very visible. This animal was blown apart by a lightning strike. The rancher went out a day later, and the thing had been cut up.All the internal organs were gone -- heart, lungs, liver. The brain was still there. But this is an animal, very interesting case. People say well, how come it's always the upside organs that are gone. This animal, the cut side was down, which totally negates any sort of scavenger or predator.
And he was an actual helicopter mechanic in the military, and he said he was dumbfounded. He goes out the next day and finds four of his animals mutilated, really close to the ranch house. So trans activists, not content with having drag shows at your local public library are now sending hormones to your children in the mail. Yes.CARLSON: Beware all euphemisms, they are always a cover for lying and misdeeds. Gender affirming care. That's a phrase you're seeing everywhere, including conservative media to their great shame. What is gender affirming care? Well, it's castrating children.
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