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Tucker Carlson blasted Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand over her “circular reasoning” for why Judge Brett Kavanaugh is allegedly guilty of a 1982 sexual assault, and the Democrat’s hypocrisy on the matter.<\/p>\n
Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) said at a press conference that “I believe [accuser Dr. Christine Blasey Ford] because she’s telling the truth. She’s asking for the FBI to investigate her claims.”<\/p>\n
Carlson said Gillibrand’s remarks are an example that political discourse has “metastasized into something ugly and something threatening to all of us.”<\/p>\n
He said he is not litigating the validity of Ford’s claim, but rather the way people like Gillibrand are using it.<\/p>\n
Carlson asked the audience to recognize the “pure demagoguery of the moment” involving Gillibrand.<\/p>\n
He said that her ‘I believe her because she’s telling the truth’ is an example of “circular reasoning — [a] demand you believe something because someone else is asserting it.”<\/p>\n
“Children talk this way, you’d think as a U.S. Senator, [Gillibrand] would be embarrassed to,” he said.<\/p>\n
Carlson pointed to Gillibrand’s past association with disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein and former President Bill Clinton — both of whom have been accused of sexual assault.<\/p>\n
“Did Kirsten Gillibrand know about Weinstein’s sexual assaults?” Carlson asked, adding that by her own logic, she should be calling for a federal investigation of herself on the matter.<\/p>\n
He noted how Gillibrand had a “very close relationship with Bill Clinton — another alleged rapist.”<\/p>\n
Clinton’s accuser, Juanita Broaddrick,\u00a0spoke on Fox News on Wednesday<\/a>\u00a0on the matter as well.<\/p>\n “This is lunatic,” Carlson said.<\/p>\n Carlson added that the normally moderate California Democratic Rep. John Garamendi said on another network that the public should note what the “white-men senators are doing to [Ford].”<\/p>\n Watch more above.<\/p>\n