Tucker Carlson has touted a bizarre conspiracy theory in which he falsely suggests that abortions cause hurricanes.
Carlson, 55, appeared on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast on the eve of Election Day and argued against abortion, a key issue in the 2024 White House race.
The Donald Trump ally hailed people who believe abortions are ‘affirmative good’ as ‘evil’ and accused them of ‘committing child sacrifice’, which he likened to ancient religious rituals.
But the ousted Fox News host pushed his wild remarks even further by dismissing scientific evidence that climate change attributes to hurricanes and instead claimed the natural disasters are ‘probably’ caused by ‘abortion’.
His remarks come just weeks after Hurricanes Helene and Milton ravaged much of the Gulf Coast. Scientists have concluded that climate change boosted the hurricanes’ devastating rainfall, increased storm surges and intensified winds.
Tucker Carlson, pictured on October 31, has touted a bizarre conspiracy theory in which he falsely suggests that abortions cause hurricanes
Carlson, an ardent supporter of Donald Trump (pictured with Carlson on October 31) and in the past year a confidant, hailed people who believe abortions are ‘affirmative good’ as ‘evil’ and accused them of ‘committing child sacrifice’
Abortion access has been at the forefront of the 2024 presidential race.
Trump promised to ‘protect the women’ of the America ‘whether the women like it or not,’ a remark that drew condemnation from women across the political spectrum.
The Republican nominee takes credit for the US Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade protections, saying abortion laws should be left to the states. Trump said he does not support banning birth control.
His wife Melania, in her book published last month, told how she holds starkly different views on abortion from her husband.
Melania wrote in her memoir how she supports a woman’s right to choose when it comes to abortion and that she’s ‘carried this belief’ for her ‘entire adult life’.
Democrat nominee Vice President Kamala Harris has made reproductive rights and personal freedoms a rallying cry and has called on Congress to pass national legislation codifying access to safe abortion.
She has promoted President Joe Biden administration’s efforts short of federal law, including steps to protect women who travel to access the procedure and limit how law enforcement collects medical records.
Her argument to the public is rooted in the concept of freedom, saying ‘the freedom to make decisions about one’s own body should not be made by the government.’
Carlson, pictured at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on October 27, pushed his wild remarks even further by dismissing scientific evidence that climate change attributes to hurricanes and instead claimed the natural disasters are ‘probably’ caused by ‘abortion’
He hit out at Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, pictured on October 22, and accused her of ‘worshipping abortion, the killing of kids’ by supporting abortion access
Carlson, during his 25-minute appearance on Bannon’s show, described himself as being a secular individual while also speaking about politics with religious undertones.
He described people who carry out abortions, an official medical procedure, as ‘practicing child sacrifice…as every culture has before us’.
He hit out at Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and accused her of ‘worshipping abortion, the killing of kids’ by supporting abortion access.
‘To see the Treasury Secretary, that dwarf Janet Yellen, get up and say you can do your part to help the American economy by killing your child, that’s no different than the Canaanites,’ he told Bannon.
Carlson was seemingly referencing passages from the Old Testament of the Bible in which it suggests that child sacrifice was a regular feature of the religion of the Canaanite people.
He also misquoted Yellen who in May 2022, before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, said that she believed ‘eliminating the right of women to make decisions about when and whether to have children would have very damaging effects on the economy and would set women back decades’.
Regardless, Carlson pushed the assertion that she and others who are pro-choice are ‘worshipping’ the ‘killing of kinds’.
‘I’m sure I’ll be attacked for saying this, but I really believe it,’ he continued. ‘People are like, “oh, well, we had another hurricane, it must be global warming.” No! It’s probably abortion, actually.’
He added: ‘You can’t kill children on purpose, knowing that you’re doing that in exchange for power, or freedom, or happiness, whatever you think you’re getting in return.
‘You can’t participate in human sacrifice without consequences.’
The episode also saw Carlson describe nuclear weapons as being ‘demonic’ and made by ‘not-human forces’.
Tucker Carlson sat next to the former president at the Republican National Convention in July (pictured) and has been campaigning across the country for him
Other outlandish claims included his allegation that the US military has ‘consistently’ been targeting and killing Christian populations since the end of World War II.
The ousted Fox News host has been an ardent supporter of Trump and in the past year a confidant.
He sat next to the former president at the Republican National Convention and has been campaigning across the country for him, but his commentary has veered into weird territory many times.
Most recently, at a rally in Georgia last month, he made attendees feel uncomfortable when he likened Trump to an angry father providing tough love to a ‘bad little girl’ who, as Carlson put it, was ‘in need of a vigorous spanking’.