Trump tries to subvert GOP debate with interview with Tucker Carlson on eve of surrender to Georgia

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Trump tries to subvert GOP debate with interview with Tucker Carlson on eve of surrender to Georgia

Sarah D-wire

August 23, 2023

Former President Trump called the four criminal charges he faces trivia, nonsense and bulls

hit

,

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during an interview

Wednesday

with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson

that was released right before the Fox News GOP primary debate Wednesday. On the eve of his expected surrender to authorities in Fulton County, Georgia, Trump on Thursday continued his efforts to dismiss as political charges the charges he faces there over attempts to keep him in power despite his 2020 election loss. enact. Although he was subject to bail that prevents him from threatening those involved in the case, Trump continued to criticize Dist. atty fani willis and her indictment naming him and 18 other defendants.

Carlson repeatedly urged Trump to answer whether he thought the Democrats would step up political and legal attacks against him.

the former president asked what he thought his political opponents would do, to the point of killing him

to prevent him from winning the 2024 presidential election.

“Shouldn’t they kill you now?” Carlson asked. They can sue you 20 times and you won’t lose the Republican primary because of it.”

Trump declined to answer directly, commenting instead on the more than 90 federal and state crimes he faces

related to through

the four charges,

two of which are related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election in his favor

.

It’s all nonsense.

It’s terrible when you look at what they do, Trump replied.

The interview was

designed to

serve

i.e

as counter-programming to Fox News and the Republican National Committee presidential debate in Milwaukee, which Trump said he would skip because “the public knows who I am.” Carlson said in a Twitter message Wednesday that Trump approached him to do an interview to post during the debate. It was pre-recorded at Trump’s Bedminster, N

.Jew Jersey.

the interview

turned quickly

in mudslinging and conspiracy theories. the showcase of both men’s penchant for conspiracy theories.

Carlson

Trump’s second question was whether Trump started his interview asking if he wanted to

to believe

Rev

actually fund Jeffrey Epstein

committed suicide committed suicide

in

his cell prison

as he awaited his sex trafficking trial

to start

and or president

joe

pray

what is

mentally competent

enough to run the country and become president

.

Someone else must be,” Trump said. “I don’t think he’s capable of anything.

said Trump.

After questioning Biden’s eligibility for office due to his age of 77, Trump is just three years younger than Biden, who is 80. The former president had words of praise for the governor of California. Gavin Newsom, whom he suggested the Democratic Party would support Biden.

“I always got along with him, believe it or not,” Trump said before changing course and issuing his oft-repeated critique of California’s liberal policies.

including falsely saying an incorrect pronunciation

causing the state to be in a “brown-out”.

his embrace

electric vehicles.

The interview, linked to his planned arrest in Georgia Fulton County, Georgia

.

who was accused Thursday of trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election he lost appeared to be an attempt to avoid focusing coverage on the eight candidates who qualified for the Republican debate.

Carlson came back later in the interview to ask

hh

How do you get sued every week and stay merry?” Carlson

Trump asked.

It’s a lot easier because I’m so high in the polls, because it means people understand. The people see it’s a fraud, Trump said before calling

Fulton County Dist. atty fanatic

Willis, who recently sued him, “terrible

,

and repeatedly mispronouncing her name. Political scientist William Howell of the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy said in an interview earlier today that Trump almost had to name the four charges because they have become part of the narrative he has created around the campaign.

Trump has repeatedly claimed that

the four indications they are

are an attempt to interfere

his candidacy in the elections

and that the more than 90 criminal charges filed against him are

Real

an attack on his supporters.

Along with the Fulton County charges, Trump was arrested in Washington DC on August 1 following an investigation by Special Counsel Jack Smith into actions that

former President Trump

and his allies allegedly tried to keep him in office despite losing the 2020 election.

He will also appear in court in May on 39 federal charges filed by In a separate case,

Smith

prosecutes Trump on 39 felony charges

That

he Trump

subsequently unlawfully kept secret documents

gone, he left

office.

Trump will also appear in court in New York

City

in March

stands in front

Charges related to payments allegedly made during the 2016 presidential campaign to cover up an affair with porn actor Stormy Daniels.

He has pleaded not guilty in all three counts.

A condition of Trump’s $200,000 Fulton County bail is that he makes no direct or indirect threats, including through social media, against potential witnesses, victims or the named unindicted co-conspirators.

,

but not mentioned

,

in the indictment. He has also been instructed not to communicate with known witnesses about the facts of the case, except through legal counsel.

Hey Trump

What

given similar instructions

by a federal judge in Washington

with similar instructions

,

who and she already has it

warned his lawyer

once Trump must be aware that he is not against it

participation

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anything that could affect the potential jury pool.

It’s part of a much, much bigger story. I meant

The game he is playing is not how do I win in Georgia under the terms of the Georgian prosecutor, but rather:

,

how can i win by telling a much bigger story about how

[the indictment is]are

all corrupt and politicized and a witch hunt’

said political scientist William Howell of the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.

“And he plays that tune over and over and over and looks for characters he can point to as protagonists in it

in the

story.”

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