Tucker Carlson: “I was sitting directly across from him when he didn't put…”

“I don't know if that's true. I don't know the answer. I really don't. Clearly, I did ignore certain things. For example, I was sitting directly across from him when he didn't put his hand on the Bible. And it was a refusal to put his hand on the Bible at his inauguration. That bothered me a lot. A lot. Why wouldn't you? If you didn't believe in the Bible, you wouldn't care. Only if you believed in the Bible and didn't want to be bound by it, would you do that.” (08:55–09:02)

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