Tucker Carlson turns on Trump and blames the president for riots in the US Capitol.

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson called President Donald Trump Thursday night after he “ recklessly encouraged ” his supporters to invade the United States Capitol on Wednesday, sparking violence that resulted in five deaths.

Carlson, a Trump ally who has spent most of his presidential term praising and protecting him, claimed that the president has now reached the end of his’ useful life ‘and that it is’ unhealthy’ for the nation to continue to ‘focus on a single man’.

The Fox host added that Trump has already reached his “expiration date” and questioned whether the president “deserves all this time and attention.”

Yet Carlson continued to defend the actions of Trump loyalists, despite the violent scenes on Wednesday, while criticizing the Republican party for not caring about the president’s base and mocking them for spending too much time defending the ‘reputation their leaders’ staff.

He claimed that the assault on the Capitol yesterday was simply a “political protest” that “got out of control.”

His comments came as the Wall Street Journal, which like Fox is owned by Rupert Murdoch, asked Trump to resign before being indicted in a sharp turn by the newspaper.

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Carlson has continued to defend President Trump in recent weeks even as his chances of overriding the election became increasingly unlikely and no evidence of widespread fraud was discovered.

However, he appeared to abandon ship Thursday night, though he said he still supported the president’s base, stating that Democrats were using Wednesday’s events as a “pretext for an unprecedented crackdown on civil liberties.”

“Only in the last few hours have we heard people in positions of power and authority demand that those who support Donald Trump can no longer publish books, use the Internet or fly on airplanes,” he infuriated.

“What happened yesterday, we are told, was not simply that a political protest got out of hand after the president recklessly encouraged it, that is indeed what happened,” Carlson continued, admitting that the president was at fault.

He said the effect of the Trump presidency on the country “has been remarkable.”

“We have gone from being a large continental country with a huge variety of concerns and interests to a sweaty chat room of 300 million people, all of whom are focused on one man, Donald Trump. That’s not healthy, no matter how I feel about Trump, ” Carlson said.

“At some point you have to wonder where our country is putting all its energy. Is a single president, someone, all this time and attention worth it? All politicians, whether they agree with them or not, have a useful life, they are people.

They don’t last forever, none of us do. In Trump’s case, the expiration date comes in 13 days and after that he won’t be president. ‘

Carlson later claimed he was not attacking Trump, but criticized his actions in encouraging supporters to go to the US Capitol building.In his speech at the ‘Stop the Steal Rally’ on Wednesday morning, an action that the television personality called ‘incorrect’.

“It was a political protest that got completely out of control, as we said before, because the president recklessly encouraged it and that’s wrong,” he continued.

During the opening segment of his show, Carlson also launched a tirade against the Republican Party and claimed that they do not care about their voters or the American people.

‘Donald Trump thinks exclusively of Donald Trump, but so do almost all Democrats in Congress, as well as all Republicans. Everyone is obsessed with Trump, ” Carlson enraged.

Who has your concerns in the first place? Who wakes up in the middle of the night for your family? I ask.

‘That is the main thing we have to change. It won’t be easy, but the topics are pretty clear and here are the basics. The goal of the Republican Party is not to protect the personal reputations of its leaders. That cannot be the priority.

“The goal of the Republican Party is to protect its voters. In practice, that needs to protect the bill of rights, the most basic freedoms, and the fundamental promises of American life; Without them, you wouldn’t want to live here. ‘

He went on to claim that the party could not trust a single person either, as it encouraged its viewers to give up hope for Trump and claimed that “ freedoms are more important than any politician. ”

Donald Trump could become immortal and win the next 40 presidential elections and his daughter the next 40 after that, but if America becomes a place where you have to violate your own conscience to keep a job, we cannot protect your family. From mob violence, where your children can’t afford to marry and raise grandchildren because employers don’t like the color of their skin, so what’s the point of it all? Carlson questioned.

Has no sense. Nobody wants to live in a place like that or should have to, no matter who the president is. We should be very concerned about all this right now; these are the central concerns, ”he continued.

‘In thirteen days, these voters will not have Donald Trump to protect them, they will have no one unless the Republican Party decides to wake up and reject the lies and progress and recognize the purpose of those lies, which is an unprecedented fact. . repression of their way of life.

“You won’t have a chance either,” he concluded.

Carlson also disagreed with the Democratic reaction to yesterday’s events, claiming that the left is wrong in calling the actions of Trump supporters racist and terrorist.

“CNN describes it as an insurrection, Chuck Schumer compared it to Pearl Harbor, it was 9/11 of our generation and, needless to say, it was ‘white supremacy,'” he said.

“They know how to use language, not just to describe what is happening, they use it for political purposes. It was not an insurrection, enough with the lies.

While Carlson has been a staunch supporter of Trump for most of his presidency, some viewers have criticized the Fox host for some instances of rejection of Trump’s actions over the past year.

On June 2, Carlson had called on the president to do more when violence erupted in the early days of the protests over George Floyd’s death, and declared that he would not be re-elected if he did not show that he could protect the American people.

Just two weeks later, Carlson again criticized the president for failing to take action to bring down the CHAZ-occupied area of ​​Seattle after Trump said he enjoyed sitting down and watching the crime wave that erupted there.

After the election, Carlson faced high levels of backlash from Trump supporters after he called on President Sidney Powell’s attorney for pushing conspiracy theories, and some viewers claimed they were leaving Fox News as a result.

Another Trump ally at Fox Sean Hannity also acknowledged that Joe Biden would now become president in two weeks when he questioned on Thursday how the Capitol rape had occurred and why police were no more prepared for the thousands who showed up for the rally.

On Thursday night, a Capitol police officer became the fifth fatality in Wednesday’s riots when Trump acknowledged the election was lost and called for calm.