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Tucker Carlson praised former President Donald Trump on Wednesday for choosing Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate.

During an appearance by him on Megyn Kelly’s podcast, it was revealed that he’d been an early advocate for Vance as VP. Speaking with Kelly, Carlson explained why.

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He admitted that he’s friends with “basically zero” politicians, save for Vance, a man he considers a friend for “reasons that have nothing to do with politics.”

Vance is, according to him, “a normal, really smart guy” who “understands that our foreign policy is complicated … [and that] what we’ve done abroad over the past 20 years has not helped the United States or anybody else.”

Carlson further revealed that most GOP donors were against Trump choosing Vance as his VP.

“I cannot overstate how much donors just dislike J.D. Vance,” the former Fox News host said. “He was chosen on the Monday of the Republican Convention and, up until that moment, Trump was getting calls from his biggest donors saying, ‘Don’t do this.’”

But it wasn’t just donors. Even some of Vance’s colleagues were throwing him under the bus.

“Lindsey Graham, that morning, was telling Trump that J.D. Vance was evil,” Carlson recalled. “The second he picked J.D. Vance, there was Lindsey Graham on Twitter saying, ‘Oh, my old friend J.D. Vance. I’m thrilled that he got the nod.’”

Concluding his remarks about Vance, Carlson went on to explicitly praise Trump for making a wise decision.

“It was in defiance of his biggest donors and many of his allies, which was an act of bravery for which he should get credit,” he said.

During his discussion with Kelly, Vice President Kamala Harris’ own choice for VP, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, also came up as a topic.

Walz is, as previously reported, the originator of the ridiculous claim that Vance is somehow a “weird” guy. A claim Carlson doesn’t buy.

“You know who is weird?” he asked rhetorically. “Tim Walz. I am not going to go on about it, but that guy is weird. Let’s be real.”

Carlson also suspects he’s a homosexual. He revealed this after Kelly remarked on Walz’s very flamboyant behavior.

“Tim Walz has got, I mean, talk about not having control over one’s emotions or one’s body,” she said. “I’m just going to say: I don’t know any man who behaves like that.”

Certainly not any heterosexual man.

“Come on!” Carlson exclaimed in response. “I mean, come on. It’s so, it’s so — I’m just trying to control myself because I, you know, I don’t want to be mean and also I don’t want to say things I can’t prove, but like, let’s, let’s be real.”

“Let me just say, not connected necessarily to Tim Walz, I’m never going to take another lecture about gay rights from these people. Like, ‘Oh, you hate gays and you keep them all in the closet or whatever.’ Any party — you know, stop with the, with the lectures about that stuff. Do you know what I mean?” he added.

“If you’re so for, in general, if you’re so for gay rights then that would mean that any member of your party who’s gay would feel free to say so in public and would not be pretending not to be gay. I’m just saying. You know what I mean? Like, I hate the falseness of it!” he continued.

His point was that, assuming Walz really is gay, the Democrats’ support for the LGBT community is suspect given that he won’t come out of the closet.

“And by the way, the last thing I’ll say is: I don’t want to be mean, and I really think that people’s private lives can be private if they want them to be private,” Carlson continued. “I don’t think you should have to announce everything you’re into in public. I believe in privacy, I really do. I don’t think we should bother people on the basis of their private lives, I mean that, so. But they just push so hard.”

“They’re the ones who get into other people’s private lives, lecturing your kids about sex and stuff that should be private. You know what I mean? Putting condoms on bananas. It’s not your-, just stay away! Let me have a private life. You can have a private life. Let’s stop talking about other people’s sex lives, other people’s sexual orientations. Let’s just all agree to shut up about that, okay? I would be happy with that arrangement,” he concluded.

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