The former Fox News anchor recalled a “transformative experience” that left him “seized with a very intense desire to read the Bible.”
Tucker Carlson seems to believe in the forces of the mind, including the most evil among them. The former political debate host on CNN and Fox News, a fervent supporter of Donald Trump, revealed that he had been “physically mutilated” by a demon a year and a half ago, in an attack that he says left him bloodied and scarred “claw marks”reported this Friday Le Guardian.
The conservative American star made the statement while speaking in an upcoming documentary titled «Christianities ?». In a clip on YouTube, John Heers of the nonprofit First Things Foundation asks him if he believes that “the presence of evil makes people wonder about good”. “That’s what happened to me. I experienced it first hand”replied Tucker Carlson.
“Four claw marks”
The story leaves you wondering. “I was attacked in my bed at night while I was sleeping with my wife and four dogs, and I was mauled, physically mutilated. I was completely confused, I woke up, I couldn’t breathe and I thought I was going to suffocate.”says the journalist who says he still bears the scars. His attacker? A “demon” or “something invisible that left claw marks on my sides”he specifies.
“I took a walk outside and then I came home and my wife and dogs weren’t awake yet. And they are very light sleepers. And then I had these terrible pains in my ribcage and my shoulder, and I was just in my boxers and I went to turn on the light in the bathroom, and I had four claw marks on each side. under my arms and on my left shoulder. And they were bleeding.”
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Did this astonishing attack surprise him? In any case, he told it to one of his assistants, an evangelical Christian, who replied: “It happens, people are attacked in their beds by demons”. Tucker Carlson, for his part, evokes a “transformative experience” who left it “seized with a very intense desire to read the Bible”tells the Guardian.
But who is Tucker Carlson? He was one of the leading faces of the conservative channel Fox News, after working at CNN. But, in 2020, the star journalist took up the idea that the presidential election won by Biden was stolen. The television channel, which had to pay 787 million to the voting machine manufacturer Dominion, then fired him. Followed by 14 million people on X, the conservative star, heir to a very wealthy family, has since created his own channel, where he develops his theses against immigration, feminism or the fight for the climate. The one who interviewed Vladimir Putin in February 2024 is also accused of being pro-Russian in his statements on the war in Ukraine.
“When Dad Comes Home”
Last week, he was in Georgia to support Donald Trump, whom he portrayed as a father coming home who would give the country a “vigorous spanking”. “He has no inclination for revenge. He loves his children. Even if they are disobedient, he loves them. Because they are his children. They live in his house. But he is very disappointed by their behavior. And he’s going to have to let them know.”explained Tucker Carlson, spinning the metaphor. “When dad comes home, you know what he says? ‘You’ve been a bad girl. You’ve been a bad little girl and you’re going to get a vigorous spanking right now.’
Again Thursday evening, he was in Arizona to interview Donald Trump in public. “If we can keep cheating to a minimum, we will achieve a huge victory”explained the Republican candidate, who also mentioned the theme of “useless wars”who is dear to him – and to Tucker Carlson. “We bombed the whole Middle East and what did we get? Nothing. Except for a large number of deaths. I don’t want to go to war. Everyone who went to the Middle East, I thought it was stupid. What are these people doing? They spend… We spent 9 trillion bombing the Middle East to death.said Donald Trump, who has made this anti-war speech one of his campaign markers since 2016.