Tucker Carlson Warns Charlie Kirk Murder Could Be ‘Used’ by ‘Bad Actors’ to Push Hate Speech Laws

Tucker Carlson gave a veiled warning against “bad actors” who might use conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination to “bring hate speech laws” would be met with “civil disobedience” in a pointed call out just days after Attorney General Pam Bondi floated the idea.

In a special Wednesday episode of The Tucker Carlson Show, speaking to other conservatives about the life and impact of Kirk, the host opened with a 30-minute monologue expressing his own thoughts on the activist’s free speech advocacy.

At one moment, he spoke about his personal concern that Kirk’s death could be used by some “bad actors” as a springboard for introducing hate speech laws in the United States, warning viewers “there is never a more justified moment for civil disobedience than that – ever.”

Tucker’s comments come mere days after President Donald Trump said he supported Bondi, who faced bipartisan backlash Monday after declaring on a podcast that “there’s free speech and then there’s hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society.”

The host rolled back the clip of Bondi, offering her the benefit of the doubt on her comments before doubling down:

There’s almost no sentence that Charlie Kirk, and I’m not running the risk of appropriating his memory for my own ends by saying this, it’s provable. There’s no sentence that Charlie Kirk would have objected to more than that. And you’ve got to think the attorney general didn’t think it through and was not attempting to desecrate the memory of the person she was purporting to celebrate. That she just threw that out there, that she hadn’t thought about it.

He continued:

You hope Charlie Kirk’s death won’t be used by a group we now call bad actors to create a society that was the opposite of the one he worked to build. You hope that!

You hope a year from now, the turmoil we’re seeing in the aftermath of his murder won’t be leveraged to bring hate speech laws to this country. And trust me, if it is, if that does happen, there is never a more justified moment for civil disobedience than that – ever, and there never will be. Because if they can tell you what to say, they’re telling you what to think, there is nothing they can’t do to you because they don’t consider you human. They don’t believe you have a soul.

A human being with a soul, a free man, has a right to say what he believes. Not to hurt other people, but to express his views.

By Tuesday, Bondi sought to reframe in a statement on X, insisting that “threats of violence” are not protected speech. But the attempt at reframing did not reassure conservatives, or by appearances Carlson, who warned against conflating hate speech with threatening speech – a distinction central to First Amendment protections.

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