Tucker Carlson: “If you want to understand, Charlie Kirk, he loved J.D. Vance…”

“And I have. Distracted with the other stuff for sure, because I feel strongly about it. But I'm gonna try and stop. But I just wanna say, If you want to understand, Charlie Kirk, he loved J.D. Vance and Donald Trump, but he was genuinely close to jd, like, as a friend and vice versa. And that is just factually true. And I don't wanna hurt anybody by going on, but that is true. JD earned every. Yes, he did.” (1:29:02–1:29:13)

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