Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson called President Joe Biden’s speech Thursday night “possibly the darkest and most un-American speech ever given by an American president.”
In an immediate response to Biden’s State of the Union address, the former prime-time host charged the president with delivering a speech “entirely lacking in decency or generosity to his fellow Americans.”
“In fact it wasn’t a speech,” Carlson said, “it was a rant.”
Carlson also called Biden a “doddering old man” who “can’t remember when his son died or when he served as vice president.”
In February, former Special Counsel Robert Hur declined to pursue felony charges against the president after the prosecutor concluded Biden was too senile for a jury to convict.
“Biden would likely present himself to the jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Hur’s team wrote in the report released last month. “It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him by — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
Biden, according to prosecutors, forgot the timeline of his tenure as vice president and struggled to recall the approximate year of his son’s death.
“Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt,” Hur’s team wrote. Biden’s memory, they reported, also “appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him.”
In his live monologue Thursday night, Carlson also claimed Biden is unable to win a fair election.
“We know they’re going to steal the election because they’re now saying so out loud,” Carlson said.
Carlson aired footage of Attorney General Merrick Garland declaring war on voter ID laws.
“The chief law enforcement officer of the United States government is telling you that it’s immoral, in fact racist, in fact illegal to ask people for their IDs when they vote to verify they are who they say they are,” Carlson said.
“Somehow people of color, black people, don’t have state-issued IDs,” he added sarcastically.
Somehow they’re living in a country where you can do virtually nothing without proving your identity with a government-issued ID, without government-issued IDs. So, they can’t fly on planes, they can’t have checking accounts. They can’t have any interaction with the government, state, local or federal. They can’t stay in hotels, they can’t have credit cards, because someone without a state-issued ID can’t do any of those things.
