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From the April 18, 2023, edition of Fox's Tucker Carlson Tonight.

TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Democrats approve of racial violence. They are stoking it everywhere. No, it's not your imagination. They want race hate and violence. Today Joe Biden released a statement about a young man called Ralph Yarl. A teenager, a Black teenager who was shot after showing up to an elderly man's house in Kansas City. We don't know the details of this. There is much we don't know. And, of course, we feel for anyone who was shot, including this teenager. But the White House didn't pause for a moment before drawing conclusions from this sad encounter and using those conclusions to further divide the country on the basis of race. The President said, and we're quoting, "no parent should have to worry that their kid will be shot after ringing the wrong doorbell." Well, that's demonstrably true but of course, the President is saying this in order to further divide the country along racial lines and to tell a story that is, in fact, not supported by the facts which is that Black teenagers are murdered by elderly white people just for showing up on their doorsteps. Ralph Yarl, thank heaven, did not die from his injuries, he was just released from the hospital. But these kinds of mistakes do happen and they're always sad. Assuming this was a mistake, again we don't know all the details. This same weekend a 20-year-old woman called Kaylin Gillis was shot and killed after a friend turned into the wrong driveway in upstate New York. A man shot her dead in the passenger seat. There was no statement from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris about this, of course, because Kaylin Gillis was white, and therefore her death could not be used to further insight racial conflict that benefits the Democratic Party. Now, if you think that we're not giving our leaders enough credit, if you're wondering "could they really be that cynical and destructive?" Unfortunately, they not only could be, but they are. And the effects, of course, are destructive always and everywhere.