Tucker Carlson and Jeanine Pirro blame George Soros for McCloskey indictment
Carlson: “The Soros-backed prosecutor is sending a very clear message to the rest of us, which is submit”
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Citation From the October 6, 2020, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight
JEANINE PIRRO (FOX LEGAL ANALYST): Look, Tucker, this is a political prosecution brought by a renegade prosecutor, funded with $200,000 from the Soros PAC, who decides that she is going to charge two people who are on their own property in their own home with the unlawful use of a weapon and tampering, for which they face up to four years in jail as well as loss of their licenses to practice law, both of them being attorneys. And you know, the -- if you can just imagine, Tucker, that it's Sunday afternoon or Sunday evening, you're about to have a barbecue with your wife, and then you hear a crowd and all of a sudden the security gate to your area is knocked down. You call 911, there's no response. You call the police, there's no response. The security guard is nowhere to be found. You know, what are you going to do?
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TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): But the Soros-backed prosecutor is sending a very clear message to the rest of us, which is submit, you don't have a right to defend yourself or your property from the mob. That's what they're telling the country.