Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) appeared to issue a threat to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, saying if he ever met the pundit, he would “f—ing kill” him.
Speaking on Monday to a British journalist Steven Edginton from GBN, Crenshaw slammed Carlson for his opposition to sending funds to Ukraine.
“Have you ever met Tucker?” Edington asked after the interview ended.
“We’ve talked a lot on Twitter,” Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL who has a history of trading online insults with Carlson, said. “If I ever meet him, I’ll f—ing kill him.”
“He’s the worst,” the Texas lawmaker added.
In a post online, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) called out her fellow Republican lawmaker, asking if Crenshaw threatened to kill her “friend,” Carlson.
“Lol, no,” Crenshaw replied to Greene.
Greene was responding to post from Edginton in which the reporter highlighted both the interview clip in which he and Crenshaw discussed Carlson, and the moment after the interview concluded when the lawmaker slammed the commentator.
A spokesperson for Crenshaw’s office told The Hill, “No, of course not,” when asked if the representative was serious about the threat.
The Hill has reached out Carlson’s “Tucker Carlson Network” for a response to the incident.
Earlier in the interview, Edgington had asked Crenshaw about the argument that money being spent on Ukraine could be spent on other things.
“Just coming back to this $100 billion to Ukraine, I know that people like Tucker Carlson will make the argument that there’s a real opportunity cost there, we could have spent that money on the border or fixing issues in America,” Edginton said in the interview clip. “What do you make of that argument?”
Crenshaw replied that “you can walk and chew bubble gum at the same time.”
“We spent 75-80 percent of our budget on a welfare state in America, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. I would love to ask Tucker what he thinks that $100 billion should be spent on and if he would vote on it as a conservative,” Crenshaw said. “Tucker doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”
Crenshaw then criticized Carlson for his visit to Moscow last year, when he visited grocery stores and said it was “so much nicer” than any city in America.
“So, I don’t really take his advice seriously,” the Texas Republican said.
In his text post on X, Edginton noted that Crenshaw said he would kill Carlson, adding: “I laughed it off. He said: ‘No seriously, I would kill him.’”
Carlson replied to the lawmaker in his own post on Monday.
“Why don’t you come sit for an interview and we’ll see how you do?” Carlson said. “I’ll send you my address, @DanCrenshawTX.”
