{"id":2010662,"date":"2023-08-24T11:40:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T15:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-tucker-carlson-interview-racks-up-massive-views-addresses-debate-skip-indictments\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T11:43:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T15:43:21","slug":"trump-tucker-carlson-interview-racks-up-massive-views-addresses-debate-skip-indictments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-tucker-carlson-interview-racks-up-massive-views-addresses-debate-skip-indictments\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Tucker Carlson&#8217;s interview goes viral, discussing debate absence and indictments."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-tucker-carlson-interview-racks-up-massive-views-addresses-debate-skip-indictments%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2010662&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former President Donald Trump\u200d Skips Republican Debate for\u2063 Exclusive Interview with Tucker Carlson<\/h2>\n<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald\u2062 Trump<\/a> made headlines when he decided to skip the Republican debate on Wednesday night and instead sat down with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/tucker-carlson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tucker Carlson<\/a> for an extensive interview. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-tucker-carlson-interview-racks-up-massive-views-addresses-debate-skip-indictments\/\" title=\"Trump and Tucker Carlson's interview goes viral, discussing debate absence and indictments.\">interview quickly gained massive attention<\/a>, amassing over 100 million views on X in just a matter of hours.<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, Trump addressed a wide range\u2062 of topics, from his absence at\u200c the debate to his thoughts\u2062 on the possibility of a civil war in the United States. He even fielded a question from Carlson about his concerns regarding an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amnesty-international-strips-aleksei-navalny-of-prisoner-of-conscience-status-for-decades-old-comments-on-immigration\/\" title=\"Amnesty International Strips Aleksei Navalny Of \u2018Prisoner Of Conscience\u2019 Status For Decades-Old Comments On Immigration\">assassination attempt<\/a>. The interview, which was posted to X just five minutes before the start of the Republican debate, garnered \u200cover 100 million views by\u2064 the end of the night,\u200d as\u2062 reported by Newsweek. By Thursday\u200b morning, the interview had \u2063reached an astonishing 180 million \u200cviews.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s difficult to determine the exact number of active viewers due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-approves-another-350-million-in-ukraine-aid\/\" title=\"U.S. Approves Another 0 Million in Ukraine Aid\">social media platform&#8217;<\/a>s view counting \u200bmethod, Trump&#8217;s interview with Carlson can be compared to the host&#8217;s recent interview with GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, which has garnered 44 million \u200bviews since its posting last week.<\/p>\n<p>Trump explained his decision to skip the\u200b debate by pointing to his significant lead in the polls.\u2062 He believed that participating in a one-on-one conversation with\u200d Carlson would be more beneficial than joining \u200cthe other Republican candidates.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ep. 19  Debate Night with Donald J Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ayPfII48CO\">pic.twitter.com\/ayPfII48CO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tucker\u200c Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuckerCarlson\/status\/1694513603251241143?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019m leading by [40] points,\u201d Trump said. \u201cBut I\u2019m gonna have \u2063all these people screaming at me, shouting questions at me. All of which I love answering. I love doing, but it doesn\u2019t make sense to do \u2019em. So, I\u2019ve taken a pass.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When asked about the possibility of the U.S. heading towards violence or a civil \u2064war, Trump expressed uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI can say this, there\u2019s \u2064a level\u200c of passion that I\u2019ve never seen,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThere\u2019s a level\u2063 of hatred that I\u2019ve never seen, and there\u2019s probably\u200b a bad combination.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Trump also addressed his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-tucker-interview-racks-up-massive-views-addresses-debate-skip-indictments\/\" title=\"Trump and Tucker interview goes viral, discusses debate skip and indictments.\">pending legal cases<\/a>, \u200ddismissing them as \u200cnonsense. He \u200dcompared his situation to that of Hillary Clinton and Stacey Abrams, who both challenged the outcomes \u200cof elections\u2063 they lost.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBut \u2063now, you know, every time you see [Clinton] \u2062 on television, she\u2019s saying like, well, she\u2019s challenging the election. \u200c\u2026 So that would mean \u2062that she should be \u200dindicted, \u2062but that\u200d would mean also that Stacey Abrams \u2062in\u2064 Georgia should be indicted \u2019cause she still thinks\u200b she won the election for governor,\u201d Trump said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Carlson didn&#8217;t shy away from asking the tough questions and \u2064even inquired about Trump&#8217;s concerns regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-cia-head-petraeus-prigozhin-lost-his-wagner-group-should-be-very-careful-around-open-windows\/\" title=\"Former CIA Director Petraeus warns Prigozhin: Watch out near open windows, you lost Wagner Group.\">potential assassination attempts<\/a> from his political enemies.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHonestly, they\u2019re savage animals. They are people that are sick,\u200d really sick,\u201d Trump \u2064replied.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trump also expressed doubts\u2063 about \u200dPresident Biden&#8217;s intentions\u200b to run for re-election and criticized \u200chis \u2062handling of the country, suggesting that Biden&#8217;s \u2063family&#8217;s business dealings have compromised him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While Trump highlighted his accomplishments in foreign policy,\u2063 such as avoiding a nuclear war with North Korea, he criticized Biden for his handling of the Ukraine-Russia\u200d War and accused him \u2063of allowing China to gain influence in Cuba. However, Trump emphasized that his primary concern remains \u2064immigration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cNumber one is a border and taking hundreds of thousands of criminals that have been allowed into our country and getting them out and bringing them back to their country,\u201d the former president said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Tim \u200bPearce contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump opted out of the Republican debate and instead had a widely-watched interview with Tucker Carlson, amassing 100 million views on X within hours. Trump addressed various topics, including his absence from the debate and his thoughts on the future of the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":2010663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}