Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) mentioned he would kill right-wing media persona Tucker Carlson if the 2 ever met in individual.
“Have you ever ever met Tucker?” Steven Edginton of Britain’s GB Information requested Crenshaw as the 2 chatted after an interview in a clip the information group posted on X.
“We’ve talked so much on Twitter,” Crenshaw mentioned, referring to the barbs he and Carlson have traded on-line. “If I ever meet him, I’ll fucking kill him.”
He additionally known as Carlson “the worst individual” throughout the obvious hot-mic second.
GB Information later deleted the clip, however others have reposted it broadly on social media.
Because the clip went viral, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) requested Crenshaw in a publish on X if he threatened to kill Carlson.
“lol, no,” Crenshaw replied.
Edginton, nevertheless, added on X: “He informed me once I laughed it wasn’t a joke.”
Carlson then replied on X by difficult Crenshaw to seem on his present.
“Why don’t you come sit for an interview and we’ll see the way you do?” the previous Fox Information host wrote. “I’ll ship you my handle.”
Crenshaw and Carlson have sparred on-line for years, with Carlson final 12 months calling the Republican lawmaker the “single-most left-wing” member of Congress he’s ever met. Carlson accused Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL who misplaced his proper eye whereas deployed in Afghanistan, of getting “no real interest in america in anyway.”
He’s additionally known as Crenshaw “eye patch McCain,” a reference to the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who Carlson and others on the proper have attacked for not being conservative sufficient.
Crenshaw final 12 months known as Carlson a “cowardly, know-nothing elitist who is stuffed with shit.”
“Tucker’s MO is straightforward: defend America’s enemies and assault America’s allies,” Crenshaw wrote. “There isn’t an goal bone left in that washed up information host’s physique.”
Crenshaw went after Carlson once more this week throughout the extra formal a part of his GB Information interview when he was requested in regards to the right-wing host’s assaults on support for Ukraine.
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“Tucker doesn’t know what he’s speaking about,” he mentioned. “Tucker likes to go to Moscow and speak about how nice the grocery shops are so I don’t actually take his recommendation very critically.”