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Tucker Carlson slammed Democrats for seizing on the opportunity to politicize the Buffalo race massacre.
The Fox News host also accused President Joe Biden of stoking racial division and ‘declaring war’ on fellow Americans by branding Republicans an ‘existential threat.’
‘Within minutes of Saturday’s shooting, before all of the bodies of those 10 murdered Americans had even been identified by their loved ones, professional Democrats had begun a coordinated campaign to blame those murders on their political opponents,’ Carlson began saying during his segment on Monday night.
He continued: ”They [Republicans] did it,” they [Democrats] said, immediately. Patron Gendron was the heir to Donald Trump, they told us. ”Trumpism committed mass murder in Buffalo”.’
Carlson went on to suggest that Biden’s remarks implying he no longer recognizes the GOP and sees it as an ‘existential threat,’ according to Politico, are in essence a way of declaring war on fellow Americans.
The Fox News host’s controversial commentary comes after rising criticism from the left, accusing him of echoing the ‘great replacement’ theory, a conspiracy that politicians are attempting to wipe out white Americans by ‘replacing’ them with immigrants.
Payton Gendron, 18, accused of opening fire at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday, wrote a 180-page manifesto with references to the ‘great replacement’ theory as he spewed racist and anti-Semitic sentiments.
Gendron’s attack killed ten and wounded three. Of the 13 people shot, 11 were black and two were white.
Tucker Carlson slammed Democrats for seizing on the opportunity to politicize the Buffalo race massacre and attempted to distance himself from the shooter’s reference to the ‘great replacement’ – a conspiracy theory previously echoed by Carlson
Payton Gendron, 18, who opened fire at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday, wrote a 180-page manifesto with references to the ‘great replacement’ theory as he spewed racist and anti-Semitic sentiments
Gendron’s attack killed ten and wounded three. Of the 13 people shot, 11 were black and two were white
Carlson claimed during his segment that Gendron’s manifesto was not political at all, and was rather the result of his ‘disjointed, irrational, paranoid,’ and mentally ill mind.
‘Gendron’s letter is a rambling pastiche of slogans and internet memes, some of which flatly contradict one another,’ Carlson said.
‘The document is not recognizably left-wing or right-wing. It’s not really political at all. The document is crazy. It’s the product of a diseased and organized mind.’
He continued: ‘At one point, Gardner suggests that Fox News is part of some global conspiracy against him. He writes like the mental patient he is — disjointed, irrational, paranoid. Now, that’s true — not that it makes the atrocities he committed easier to bear.’
Carlson condemned Democrats and accused them of seizing the opportunity to politicize the tragedy on Saturday.
‘You have to ask yourself Who behaves like that? What sort of person uses mass murder as an excuse to give a campaign speech or seize more political power?,’ he said.
Carlson also took aim at President Joe Biden and ventured to theorize that he will stoke racial division when he visits Buffalo on Tuesday in order to regain approval amid reports of sinking rates.
‘People who disagree with Joe Biden, according to Joe Biden, are now an ‘existential threat’ to the nation like al-Qaeda or climate change, a threat that, by definition is so profound we must declare war upon it if we’re to survive,’ Carlson said.
Carlson claimed during his segment that Gendron’s manifesto was not political at all, and was rather the result of his ‘disjointed, irrational, paranoid,’ and mentally ill mind
Mourners light candles at a makeshift memorial outside of Tops market on May 16, 2022 in Buffalo, New York. A gunman opened fire at the store yesterday killing ten people and wounding another three
Mayor Eric Adams of New York City speaks to an interfaith crowd at Bethel Gospel Assembly – Destiny Worship Pavilion on May 16, 2022 in New York City
Candles and signs are left at a memorial for victims at the scene of a shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York
Meanwhile, family members of the Buffalo shooting suspect say they believe the pandemic and its enforced isolation took its toll on the shooter’s mental health which ultimately led to last weekend’s horrific actions.
Payton Gendron, 18, is accused of murdering 10 people in a ‘racist hate crime’ after firing a barrage of 50 shots at the supermarket in upstate New York.
Gendron, of Conklin, New York, has since pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. He is now being held without bail and faces life in prison.
Relatives say they think the teen snapped after his sense of paranoia increased coupled with the sheer isolation of the pandemic.
‘I have no idea how he could have gotten caught up in this. I blame it on COVID,’ said a cousin of Gendron’s mother, Sandra Komoroff, 68, said to the New York Post.
‘He was very paranoid about getting COVID, extremely paranoid, to the point that — his friends were saying — he would wear the hazmat suit [to school],’ she said.
‘And then he got COVID just a few weeks ago. … He went to family functions with a respirator mask on. He totally wasn’t going to get COVID — and then he got COVID.
Komoroff said the family were ‘were vaxxed to the max.’
‘I don’t know if it was a bad case, I just know he caught it.,’ she added noting that the teen ‘bought into the fear of COVID.’
‘That’s the only way to say it. When you’re home all day on the Internet, you’re missing out on human contact. There’s a lot of emotions and a lot of body language you’re not getting as when you see their face,’ Komoroff explained to the Post.
Gendron traveled from his home in Conklin, New York, to carry out the atrocity. He lived there with his father Paul (pictured unpixellated) and mom Pamela, pictured in red, both of whom are engineers for the New York Department of Transportation
Husband, 68-year-old Dave Komoroff, also suggested that Gendron may have developed ‘lizard brain’ which controls aggression.
‘I can’t say it’s impossible, but maybe that would happen one out of so many millions of times.’
Police said they are investigating a 180-page manifesto that Gendron reportedly posted before going on his rampage, which included a plan to drive several counties away to carry out the shooting.
Gendron identified himself as a white supremacist in the document, explaining his fears that white people are being replaced by other races.
A preliminary investigation found Gendron repeatedly visited websites espousing white supremacist ideologies and race-based conspiracy theories – and extensively researched the 2019 mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, and the man who killed dozens at a summer camp in Norway in 2011, an official said.
It wasn’t immediately clear why Gendron had traveled about 200 miles to Buffalo and targeted this particular grocery store, but investigators believe Gendron had specifically researched the demographics of the population around the grocer and had been searching for communities with a high number of black residents.
Payton Gendron, 18, who is accused of fatally shooting 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket on Saturday lived at this home in Conklin, New York with his parents
Police said Gendron, wearing military gear and livestreaming with a helmet camera, shot a total of 11 black people and two white people in Saturday’s rampage before surrendering to authorities. Screenshots purporting to be from the Twitch broadcast appear to show a racial epithet scrawled on the rifle used in the attack, as well as the number 14, a likely reference to a white supremacist slogan.
Officials said the rifle Gendron used in the attack was purchased legally but the magazines he used for ammunition were not allowed to be sold in New York.
The Komoroff cousins have denied knowing about Gendron’s alleged racist leanings, but did say that the teenager was ‘very smart’.
‘I don’t know where he went online — the dark Web, or wherever — but apparently he got into some nasty stuff. He’s smart enough to get into dangerous stuff online, which maybe the average person wouldn’t know how to get into. I mean, I’m trying to figure it out myself,’ Dave Komoroff said.
