Tucker Carlson on Trump's Iran threats: “We're going to use our military to kill the civilians of this country who didn't choose war”
Carlson: “Killing noncombatants, people who did nothing wrong, who didn't choose this war, who were just people created by God. That is immoral. That will never be moral. That can never be justified”
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From the April 6, 2026, edition of The Tucker Carlson Show, posted on YouTube
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): These are the same people sort of didn't notice somehow that on inauguration day, the president did not take his oath of office with his hand on the Bible. His wife stood next to him holding it. I was about 15 feet away and saw it, but he did not put his hand on the Bible. And that should have been maybe a clue that we need to pause and think about what is this.
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I saw it and didn't say one word. Bothered me ever since. But right around January 4th, it became clear that maybe he didn't put his hand on the Bible because he affirmatively rejects what's inside that book, and what's inside that book are limits on human behavior. Because if there's one theme that spans all 66 books in the Christian Bible, it's that you are not God, and you cannot assume his powers because you don't have them.
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And so the morning of Easter is a uniquely joyful and peaceful moment, and yet that peace yesterday was shattered. That's not an overstatement. It was shattered for many observing Christians by a statement that the president of the United States put out at 8:03 A.M. Eastern Time on Easter morning that said this, and we're going to read it in its entirety, not in outrage or self-righteousness, but honestly in horror.
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It is maybe the most real thing this president has ever done, and also the most revealing. On every level, it is vile. On every level. It begins with a promise to use the US military, our military, to destroy civilian infrastructure in another country, which is to say to commit a war crime, a moral crime against the people of the country, whose welfare, by the way, was one of the reasons we supposedly went into this war in the first place, they're being killed by their government.
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We have intentionally bombed civilian infrastructure in Iran. It's totally unacceptable. Not under the phony laws of some international body, but under moral law, God's law. Killing noncombatants, people who did nothing wrong, who didn't choose this war, who were just people created by God, that is immoral. That will never be moral. That can never be justified.