Fox News’ Tucker Carlson claims white supremacy ‘is not a real problem in US’ – more a ‘hoax issue to divide the country’, three days after white gunman shared anti-Hispanic manifesto before shooting dead 22 in El Paso Walmart
- Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed white supremacy is not a problem in US
- He called it a ‘lie, hoax and a conspiracy theory used to divide the country’
- Carlson said all the US white supremacists could fit in one football stadium
- His chilling words came three days after El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio killings
- One killers posted a racist manifesto online and wrote about ‘Hispanic invasion’
Fox News host Tucker Carlson has claimed the problem of white supremacy in American is a ‘hoax’ and a ‘conspiracy theory.’
In the shocking statements the anchor argued that the issue was ‘just a lie’ and meant to ‘divide the country and keep a hold on power.’
Carlson’s words came just three days after 22 people were died from a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
The killer Patrick Crusius, 22, posted a racist manifesto where he complained of the ‘Hispanic invasion’ and proclaimed other anti-immigrant sentiments.
It’s also believed he had sympathy for the Christchurch gunman who killed 49 people in New Zealand earlier this year.
Hours later on Saturday, a further nine people would be killed in a second mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio.
Carlson (above) rejected that white supremacy or white nationalism was a problem in America calling the issue a ‘lie,’ ‘conspiracy theory’ and ‘a hoax’
Carlson’s shocking comments three days after a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, that claimed the lives of 22 people and injured more. Shooter Patrick Crusius (above), 22, posted a racist manifesto online claiming to be concerned about the ‘Hispanic invasion’
In the clip, while talking about the threat of white supremacy and white nationalism, Carlson added: ‘It’s actually not a real problem in America.’
He argued that the combined membership of ‘every white supremacist organization in this country would be able to fit inside a college football stadium.’
He listed that the ‘average person is getting poorer’ and ‘suicide rate is spiking’ as larger problems in America.
‘This is a hoax, just like the Russia hoax. It’s a conspiracy theory used to divide the country and keep a hold on power that’s exactly what’s going on,’ Carlson spat.
The host who is known for his anti-immigrant and ‘invasion’ rhetoric, hit back at critics who said that President Trump had emboldened racists.
Speaking at a press conference after the killings, Trump said: ‘The shooter in El Paso posted a manifesto online, consumed by racist hate.
‘In one voice our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy.’
Law enforcement responded to the shocking scene (left) in El Paso, Texas, where gunman Crusius (right) killed 22 people and injured more
Trump made remarks on both the shootings in El Paso, Texas (above), and Dayton, Ohio, where he would blame the ‘internet, social media, video games and mental health’ for the incident
He blamed video games and social media for radicalizing Crusius and described the internet as a ‘dangerous avenue.’
‘Mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun,’ Trump added.
Carlson went onto praise POTUS for his criticism of white supremacists but continued to diminish the issue all together.
Shortly after his speech, he would tell guest Victor Davis Hanson, that he had ‘never met anybody – not one person – who ascribes to white supremacy,’ according to the Daily Beast.
‘I don’t know a single person who thinks that’s a good idea,’ he added. ‘They are making this up, and it’s a talking point which they are using to help them in this election cycle, obviously, because Russia died.’