Conservative pundit and podcaster Tucker Carlson says he believes the D.C. establishment is plotting to eliminate Donald Trump.
The former Fox News host made the comments during an interview with "The Adam Carolla Show" podcast that dropped on Wednesday.
Carlson said, we're "speeding toward assassination" because "permanent Washington" has decided they "just can't have" Trump as president again.
"They protested him, they called him names. He won anyway. They impeached him twice on ridiculous pretenses. They fabricated a lot about what happened on January 6 in order to impeach him again. It didn't work. He came back. Then they indicted him. It didn't work. He became more popular. Then they indicted him three more times. And every single time his popularity rose," Carlson said.
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"So if you begin with criticism, then you go to protest, then you go to impeachment, now you go to indictment and none of them work. What's next? I mean, you know, graph it out, man," he continued. "We're speeding toward assassination, obviously. And no one will say that, but I don't know how you can't reach that conclusion."
Carlson went on to say he's "never been this worried about anything" as he is about "where this is going."
"Permanent Washington, both parties, have decided that there's something about Trump that's so threatening to them that they just can't have him [in office]," he said. "It's really hard to overstate how bad this is... I don't know where it's going. But there's a collision that's clearly imminent."
It's not clear if Carlson meant literal assassination or just eliminating the Trump threat, as he says the government is trying to "send [Trump] to prison for the rest of his life for complaining about the last election."
"If this were happening in Moldova, the State Department would issue an all-hands-on-deck order to let the world know this is not a legitimate government, and yet our government is doing it," Carlson said.
Despite Trump's ongoing legal troubles, which now include four indictments, primary polls show the former president remains the leading Republican candidate to get the party's nomination. He’s also managed to use his legal troubles to his own benefit – just recently reports indicated his campaign raised more than $7 million after his Georgia mugshot was released last week.