Interesting interview by Tulsi Gabbard asking Tucker about Trump. This a four minute clip of the full interview. Transcript available on YT.
“I’m not impressed by um by merit badges and never have been, right, so but I wasn’t against the system at all, really.
What changed me was watching Trump in 2015. And I knew Trump before I mean because I’m in the media so I’d known Trump, you know, not well, but I’d known him for, I don’t know, 15 years before. Right. A long time ,and I was like I thought he was kind of a buffoon I still think that sometimes, but what changed my view wasn’t Trump; it was the reaction to Trump among my neighbors.
So Trump would say something in his like florid orange way, you know, like why are we funding NATO? And that was the one that got me. I remember this and I never questioned NATO. I never because I grew up during the Cold War and NATO was the bulwark against Soviet aggression into Western Europe and like my dad worked as I said worked for the government, so like we were totally for NATO. Why wouldn’t you be?
But that ended in August of 1991. I was on my honeymoon when the Soviet Union collapsed, but we still had NATO in 2015, like what was the point? And I never thought about it in my life and Trump’s like “Why are we funding NATO?” And I thought that was a really interesting question. Okay, well I don’t know why. What’s the answer? And my neighbors are like “shut up, he must be killed!”
h/t Happy in Nature