Moments after President Joe Biden wrapped up his bitterly partisan address to the nation where he scolded Republicans in Congress for not moving fast enough to pass his gun-grabbing agenda, Fox News host Tucker Carlson opened his show and tore into Biden for wanting to take American’s Second Amendment rights away. He also made sure everyone watching knew that Biden’s son Hunter has been credibly accused of lying on a federal firearm background check, which is a felony.
Carlson opened by noting what he thinks Biden’s real motivation is for pushing gun control so soon after a mass shooting while families are still grieving: “facing almost certain defeat for his party in the midterm elections five months from now, Joe Biden has become desperate. He's decided to leverage the murder of nineteen children in Texas last week for political advantage.”
After playing a soundbite of Biden shouting about banning “assault rifles”, or raising the age to buy them to 21 years old, as well as passing a national red flag law, despite the fact that the red flag law in New York did nothing to prevent the mass shooting in Buffalo, Tucker tore into Biden’s agenda:
So to summarize the President's remarks tonight, your constitutional rights are not absolute but in taking them away, we're not actually taking away your rights we're protecting children to which you might ask, am I a threat to children? That question is never answered by the President. The point of this, of course, is to disarm people who did not vote for Joe Biden, and that is why simultaneous with this, this effort to recategorize the guns in your closet as felonies, Democrats have been failing to prosecute gun crimes in our cities where most of the crime is.
Tucker then pointed out Biden’s glaring hypocrisy for going after law-abiding gun owners yet never mentioning that his son Hunter lied on a federal background check to buy a gun: “if you're at all confused about whether the effort here is selective, if this is enforcement only of certain people, you'll notice the President never mentioned the apparent federal gun felony his own son committed when he lied on a federal background form when he bought a handgun.”
Instead, Tucker noted that “Biden's fellow Democrats and the House of Representatives spent the day debating ways to disarm you, Americans who have committed no crime at all and want only to protect themselves and their families.”
To read the relevant transcript click expand:
FNC’s Tucker Carlson Tonight
6/2/2022
8:00:26 p.m. EasternTUCKER CARLSON: Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson Tonight. This is a Fox News alert facing almost certain defeat for his party in the midterm elections five months from now, Joe Biden has become desperate. He's decided to leverage the murder of nineteen children in Texas last week for political advantage. He just spoke at some length from the White House about the need to disarm the population. We’re going to spare you all of it. We’ve taken a few select soundbites that sum up the President’s message.
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8:02:01 p.m. Eastern
CARLSON: So to summarize the President's remarks tonight, your constitutional rights are not absolute but in taking them away, we're not actually taking away your rights we're protecting children to which you might ask, am I a threat to children? That question is never answered by the President. The point of this, of course, is to disarm people who did not vote for Joe Biden, and that is why simultaneous with this, this effort to recategorize the guns in your closet as felonies, Democrats have been failing to prosecute gun crimes in our cities where most of the crime is. And if you're at all confused about whether the effort here is selective, if this is enforcement only of certain people, you'll notice the President never mentioned the apparent federal gun felony his own son committed when he lied on a federal background form when he bought a handgun. Didn't mention that. Justice Department has completely ignored it. Instead, Biden's fellow Democrats and the House of Representatives spent the day debating ways to disarm you, Americans who have committed no crime at all and want only to protect themselves and their families.
