"And they hate it, and they just go bonkers, and they become obsessed with making him stop. 'He has got to stop talking, we have got to shut this guy up.'”
"I can picture the scene - a lamp-lit room with a bunch of guys eating hummus, thinking 'what do we do about this guy telling the truth about us? We must make him stop talking',” Carlson went on.
"And there is always one guy with a bright idea, and I can just hear him say 'I've got an idea; why don't we just kill him - that will shut him up, that will fix the problem."
His remarks prompted backlash from Jewish groups, which claimed he was implying Jewish or Israeli involvement in the murder.
Campaign group Stop Antisemitism accused Carlson of making a “ridiculous insinuation that Jews were behind [Kirk’s] assassination”.
A number of prominent far-right and Maga influencer accounts shared this interpretation, praising Carlson for “calling out the Jews” during his speech.
