Former President Donald Trump’s interview with Tucker Carlson has so far received over 200 million views on X (formerly Twitter) within the first day of its release, generating far greater engagement and interest among the American electorate than the first Republican primary debate hosted by Fox News.
The interview has also received a staggering 200,000 reposts and more than 650,000 likes so far. The former President mocked the debate’s viewership without him, telling Carlson: “We’ll get bigger ratings using this crazy forum that you’re using than probably the debate, our competition.”
The 46-minute conversation between the two addressed a number of issues, including the death of Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Barr’s weakness, and whether the former President fears for his safety. The pair talked January 6th and the 2020 presidential election, as well as keeping the FBI and CIA under control, and of course Biden’s incompetence.
Even X owner Elon Musk jumped into the discussion, responding to the post: “Interesting to hear things directly vs through the media filter.”
Interesting to hear things directly vs through the media filter
The interview was released the night before Trump is due to report to the Fulton County jail following his latest criminal indictment for alleged election interference.
Former President Donald Trump's interview with Tucker Carlson has so far received over 200 million views on X (formerly Twitter) within the first day of its release, generating far greater engagement and interest among the American electorate than the first Republican primary debate hosted by Fox News.
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Trump campaign senior advisor Jason Miller, appearing on GB News with Nigel Farage, dropped a few hints about what to expect when Tucker Carlson’s interview with former President Donald Trump airs tonight: “I think we might get some long awaited answers to extraterrestrial life.”
Miller went on to emphasize that, while there are a few fun questions on topics like UFOs, the former President is making his pivot to the 2024 general election, revealing that Trump has some “pretty tough words” for President Biden and Vice President Harris. “There is a very serious policy discussion about where America has gotten off track, what we have to do to get back,” Miller added.
🚨@JasonMillerinDC tells us what we can expect from Trump’s interview with Tucker Carlson tonight.
In a preview posted on Instagram by Tucker Carlson, the former Fox host presses Trump on a range of issues including why he declined to participate in the first Republican primary debate, if he thinks the Democrats will try to steal the election again in 2024, and if he believes Jeffrey Epstein killed himself. Carlson bluntly asks the former President, “Do you think we’re moving towards civil war?”
One major issue Trump will address is his hostile relationship with Republican Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell – revealing in the preview that McConnell was actively whipping GOP Senators to vote to impeach and remove him from office while he was President.
Tucker Carlson’s interview with Trump at his Bedminster, New Jersey estate will air on X (formerly Twitter) at 8:55pm (ET), just ahead of the first Republican primary debate, airing at 9:00pm (ET).
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Trump campaign senior advisor Jason Miller, appearing on GB News with Nigel Farage, dropped a few hints about what to expect when Tucker Carlson's interview with former President Donald Trump airs tonight: "I think we might get some long awaited answers to extraterrestrial life."
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Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, traveled to the Fulton County jail in Georgia today were he surrendered himself to law enforcement. Shortly after being booked in, a mugshot of Giuliani – who led New York City through its darkest days following the 9/11 terror attacks – was published.
The former New York Mayor told the gathered press that he felt like he was defending the rights of all Americans against the enemies of the Republic.
“I feel very, very good about it because I’m defending the rights of Americans,” he said outside of his Manhattan apartment on Wednesday morning, adding: “I’m the same Rudy Giuliani that took down the mafia that made New York City the safest city in America.”
Giuliani was awarded the inaugural National Pulse Patriot of the Year award in 2020.
Giuliani, a close confidant of former President Donald Trump, was among the 19 individuals – including former President Donald Trump – indicted by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for interfering in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
The National Pulse previously reported that Trump plans travel to Georgia on Thursday, August 24th to surrender to authorities. At a press conference after the indictments were handed down by a grand jury, District Attorney Willis gave the 19 defendants until noon on August 25th to voluntarily surrender themselves.
Mugshots also emerged of lawyers Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis.
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Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, traveled to the Fulton County jail in Georgia today were he surrendered himself to law enforcement. Shortly after being booked in, a mugshot of Giuliani – who led New York City through its darkest days following the 9/11 terror attacks – was published.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign appears to be undergoing another reboot with the hire of former Florida Speaker of the House Jose Oliva as a senior advisor and spokesman. The hire may indicate a significant departure from DeSantis’s strategy to defeat Donald Trump in the Republican presidential primary by running to the former President’s political right.
Oliva, a self-described libertarian, worked closely with former Governor Jeb Bush and the Charles Koch’s pro-corporate lobby group Americans for Prosperity. In 2015, Oliva backed Jeb Bush during the Republican presidential primary and served on the failed campaign’s National Hispanic Leadership Committee. During the 2020-21 Florida budget fight, former Governor Bush praised Oliva’s ‘leadership in the legislature in securing raises for Florida’s public school teachers.
The former Florida lawmaker also has close ties to the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity, serving on their advisory council. Sharing in billionaire libertarian Charles Koch’s disdain for Donald Trump, Oliva declined to attend the 2016 Republican National Convention, calling it, “…just a formality and I’m not much for ceremony.” Oliva said he’d begrudgingly vote for Trump, but that it was a decision that didn’t please him.
When Governor DeSantis backed the Florida Senate ‘E-Verify’ legislation – granting the governor the power to ensure businesses were not hiring illegal immigrants – Oliva broke with his Republican colleagues calling the legislation un-American:
“Empowering executive agencies to have police powers and do random checks, that is something that is of tremendous concern. We are giving the agency the random ability to show up and do an audit, something about that doesn’t say American to me.”
– DeSantis Spokesman Jose Oliva in 2020
In 2018, when Oliva assumed the speakership in the Florida House of Representatives, he gifted lawmakers each a journal, saying he hoped their written reflections would “…tell of your restraint.” Florida Politics publisher Peter Schorsch has described Oliva as “arguably, the least popular House Speaker since Johnnie Byrd‘s disastrous tenure from more than a decade ago.”
Oliva’s speakership was marred by his alienation of colleagues earning him the nickname “Benedict Oliva.”
Campaign spokesmen are usually expected to be steady communicators who do not give the press or other candidates any ammunition to use against their candidate. Oliva, however, has a history of bizarre public statements – the most glaring of which was referring to pregnant women as “host bodies” in a 2019 interview.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign appears to be undergoing another reboot with the hire of former Florida Speaker of the House Jose Oliva as a senior advisor and spokesman. The hire may indicate a significant departure from DeSantis's strategy to defeat Donald Trump in the Republican presidential primary by running to the former President's political right.
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A Fox News source has told The National Pulse the network has “literally banned” any mentions of the upcoming interview between Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump, due to air at 9pm EST on Wednesday. Trump teased the interview by claiming “sparks will fly” in an overt and likely successful attempt to counter-programme what he has dubbed the “Vice Presidential debates“.
“We’re literally banned from talking about it or mentioning it,” said the source, before adding that the network had ordered anchors to never discuss the former Fox host’s discussion with Trump, extending as far as writing about the matter in the network’s chyrons.
On Monday, Fox aired an interview with a man they billed simply as a “Wisconsin GOP voter” who spoke eloquently about his support for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. A brief National Pulse investigation revealed Chris Lawrence to be a political activist who has worked for a number of anti-Trump groups or politicians.
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A Fox News source has told The National Pulse the network has "literally banned" any mentions of the upcoming interview between Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump, due to air at 9pm EST on Wednesday. Trump teased the interview by claiming "sparks will fly" in an overt and likely successful attempt to counter-programme what he has dubbed the "Vice Presidential debates".
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While unsurprising to many – probably including Trump and Tucker – the Fox News ban on even mentioning the fact that the discussion is taking place will take a toll on its already dwindling audience
While unsurprising to many – probably including Trump and Tucker – the Fox News ban on even mentioning the fact that the discussion is taking place will take a toll on its already dwindling audience show more
Donald Trump has said that “SPARKS WILL FLY” in his interview with Tucker Carlson, expected to air at 9pm EST on X (formerly Twitter).
The former President’s Truth Social post replicated by his campaign war room of X, below, states: “MY INTERVIEW WITH TUCKER CARLSON WILL BE AIRED TONIGHT AT 9:00 P.M. “SPARKS WILL FLY.” ENJOY!”
The interview is timed to counter-programme the Republican debate which Team Trump has branded a “Vice Presidential” competition.
Make America Great Again, Inc. launched a new microsite today calling tomorrow’s Republican Presidential Debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin the “2024 Vice Presidential Debate” and encouraging visitors to participate in a poll for Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate.
As of publication, the Ohio businessman Vivek Ramaswamy holds a lead at 48 percent, with Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) in a distant second with 14 percent, Chris Christie on 11 percent, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis tied with Mike Pence on just eight points.
Accompanying each candidate is a statement of support for former President Trump that they have each made in the past.
Several of the Republican presidential hopefuls – including Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, Asa Hutchinson, and Mike Pence – have resorted to increasingly negative attacks on the former President as he continues to dominate the field for the Republican nomination.
Trump has declined to participate in the first Republican debate. His campaign argues that the primary is essentially over and that the debate would only become a media spectacle with all of the other candidates focused on attacking him alone in a desperate effort to gain traction amongst donors.
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Make America Great Again, Inc. launched a new microsite today calling tomorrow's Republican Presidential Debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin the "2024 Vice Presidential Debate" and encouraging visitors to participate in a poll for Donald Trump's 2024 running mate.
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Former President Trump has unveiled a new plan declaring Mexican drug cartels as “unlawful enemy combatants”, as well as taking aim at loopholes in the American visa and asylum systems, ending birthright citizenship, and finishing his infamous border wall.
The cartel designation means the U.S. military could be used to deal with America’s ongoing, and worsening border crisis, while the overhauls to the visa system would reinstate “Remain in Mexico” – a system that prevents asylum seekers from waiting in the U.S. for their court dates.
Stephen Miller, a former senior advisor in the Trump White House, called the proposal “pure bliss”.
The plan will enforce laws that, while still in effect, have been ignored by prior presidential administrations; including reviving the McCarran Internal Security Act’s ideological restrictions barring Marxists, fascists, and other subversives from obtaining U.S. citizenship. The plan lays out the case for using statutory authority under the Alien and Sedition Acts to expedite the deportation of illegal migrants who have criminal records, or are gang members.
During the previous Trump presidency, his administration increased scrutiny of H-1B “specialty skill” visa applicants in order to protect American workers from being replaced with cheaper H-!B immigrant labor. In 2017, Trump signed the ‘Buy American, Hire American’ executive order that required U.S. immigration officials to conduct more thorough investigations of visa applicants and asylum-seekers. Challenges to H-1B requestsrose by 45 percent after the executive order was implemented.
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Former President Trump has unveiled a new plan declaring Mexican drug cartels as “unlawful enemy combatants”, as well as taking aim at loopholes in the American visa and asylum systems, ending birthright citizenship, and finishing his infamous border wall.show more
Former President Donald Trump has announced he will travel to Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday to be arrested. The former President called his indictment by a Fulton County grand jury a “witch hunt” and accused District Attorney Fani Willis of “continuing to campaign, and raise money” off of his prosecution. Trump also said the Georgia prosecution was, “…in strict coordination with Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ.”
Last week, Willis announced that Trump along with 18 other individuals would be charged under the RICO statute for actions and statements made during the 2020 presidential election.
As The National Pulse previously reported, Trump’s alleged co-conspirators include former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (who led the city through the aftermath of 9/11), former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorney John Eastman, former Department of Justice attorney Jeffery Clark, attorney Sydney Powell, attorney Kenneth Chesebro, and pro-DeSantis attorney Jenna Ellis.
District Attorney Fani Willis has come under increasing criticism for her handling of the Trump prosecution in Georgia – including launching her own political fundraising site shortly before the indictments were handed down. Additionally, Willis was removed from a part of her case by a judge when she held a fundraiser for the Democrat political opponent of one of her investigations targets – a Republican state lawmaker.
Last week, in an apparent error, the docket report listing the charges against former President Trump was uploaded to the Fulton County court website shortly before the grand jury actually voted on the indictments.
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Former President Donald Trump has announced he will travel to Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday to be arrested. The former President called his indictment by a Fulton County grand jury a "witch hunt" and accused District Attorney Fani Willis of "continuing to campaign, and raise money" off of his prosecution. Trump also said the Georgia prosecution was, "...in strict coordination with Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ."
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Donald Trump will “surrender” at Fulton County Jail to face charges leveled at him by Georgia District Attorney (DA) Fani Willis on Thursday or Friday, according to a “senior law enforcement official” cited by CNN.
DA Willis, who raised suspicions about her prosecution by publishing the indictment before a grand jury had even issued it, claims Trump orchestrated “a multi-state, coordinated plan… to influence the results of the November 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere,” and is hitting him with 13 charges under the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act, as if he was a mafia don.
Trump has been highly critical of Willis, branding her an anti-white racist pursuing him as part of a “campaign and fundraising CON JOB” while violent crime in her jurisdiction spirals.
Eighteen alleged co-conspirators have also been charged, most notably Rudy Giuliani, the 9/11-era New York City mayor who was acting as a lawyer for Trump following the disputed 2020 election.
Leftist politicians seem intent of making Trump’s arrest in Georgia into a public spectacle, with local sheriff Patrick ‘Pat’ Labat – a Democrat – promising the press a mugshot of the former president, which previous arraignments in New York, Florida, and Washington D.C. have not produced.
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Donald Trump will "surrender" at Fulton County Jail to face charges leveled at him by Georgia District Attorney (DA) Fani Willis on Thursday or Friday, according to a "senior law enforcement official" cited by CNN.
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