Tucker Carlson got into a heated clash with a student at a Turning Point USA event on Tuesday, at one point ordering the kid to leave after taking the Lord’s name in vain.
Carlson, speaking at Indiana University, told one “annoying” student that he was trying to remain calm and civil in the spirit of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, but things got especially heated when the student brought up private criticism Carlson has thrown toward President Donald Trump, as well as his net worth.
The student brought up texts sent by Carlson in which he slammed Trump, saying he “passionately” hated him. The messages were revealed in Dominion’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News.
As Carlson tried to address the texts question, he noticed the student was scoffing at him.
“You’re one of the most annoying people I’ve ever dealt with,” Carlson said.
He continued:
My views are, like, on the internet, and I don’t work for anybody but me. I’m in business with my college roommate. I have no incentive to ever lie at all, and I really try not to. I supported the Iraq War pretty vehemently. I supported a nomination of a Supreme Court Justice, Amy Coney Barrett, that was like a huge mistake. Sorry, I think, not what I thought she was. I support John Roberts. I support, you know, the list of dumb things
I’ve supported in my life is very long. I think I’ve learned something from those mistakes. I’m happy to admit how dumb they were. I’ve spent the last 22 years trying to atone for my support for the Iraq War.
“I appreciate that,” the student said as Carlson called him “annoying” again.
The former Fox News host explained:
I’ll tell you exactly what that was. Um, those are between me and a producer of mine who I really love. I’m still I’m close to, and that was about It was in January after the election, and Trump was saying they stole it from me. And I called the White House and I said, I’m totally willing to believe that. I mean, [Mark] Zuckerberg puts $400 million into the mechanics of elections. I don’t think he’s doing that because he believes in good government. Like, what is this? It’s clearly their stuff. And I say to the White house, specifically at the Whitehouse, give me examples. And he says, I have got a great example for you. I’ve got seven or eight dead people who voted. And the beauty of that claim was it’s provable because they’re death certificates. And we’ve got the death certificates and we’ve the obits and they voted and they’
re on the voter rolls. We know they voted. Well, talk about slam dunk. I’m not repeating anything I can’t prove.
These “dead” voters, Carlson said, turned out to be very much alive and some even called into CNN.
“CNN runs this whole thing, exposing that I have just made this colossal error on the air. There’s nothing I hate more than being wrong and humiliated like that because I have a staff. We should get this right. And I didn’t get it right because it’s so easy to check whether or not someone has died that I didn’t check. And I was enraged. And I just was enraged by the whole thing. And my position was at the time, if you’re gonna claim it was stolen, prove it to me,” he said.
“How come you weren’t saying these things during, like, on Fox News?” the student asked.
“I did the next day!” Carlson shot back.
After some back and forth, the student claimed he didn’t want to “argue,” but also accused Carlson of “contributing to the rise of people essentially just gaslighting each other” and not being sincere with his audience. Things got more heated when the student claimed Carlson is worth $50 million.
“I’m not worth $50 million. Get off the f**king internet, son.
“Go back to cable news,” the student said.
“You’re too annoying. I like the last chick who like disagreed with me and then we could have like a normal conversation, but you’re telling me I’m worth 50 million,” Carlson said.
“You got real defensive there. I just read a number that’s like a lot of money. Jesus Christ, calm down,” the student responded.
“Don’t use that phrase. We’re done,” Carlson said, stopping the student as he tried to make another point and telling him to leave.
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