Tucker Carlsonthe first Fox News host who referred republican presidential candidate donald trump as “a demonic force” in 2021, kept things on point this Halloween. That night, as costumed ghosts and demons wandered the streets in search of delicacies, Carlson was on stage with the man he had seen. Also called “a destroyer.” And that’s not the only demon in Carlson’s DMs this week, as the YouTuber also claimed that a demon got into bed with him while he was sleeping.

The mystery of how Tucker Carlson fell rapidly from his position as host of the right-wing cable channel biggest star It has been a source of endless contemplation. Is it because you sent evidence that They were too racist Even for the channel’s top management? Was it because the president of Fox Corp. Rupert Murdoch I found Carlson defense of prayer disgusting? Or maybe Carlson just wasn’t praying enough, if his recent claims that a demon physically attacked him were true.

News that the Lord allegedly turned his back on Carlson broke this week following the release of a trailer for the upcoming film. Christianity? in a preview published on youtubeThe interviewer asks Carlson Juan Heers if you believe that “the presence of evil is prompting people to question the good.”

The question seemed like a wonderful opportunity for Carlson to explore the questions of evil raised by Trump, a man who last week claimed that God chose him to lead our nation. After all, when someone thinks about evil, they probably imagine people committing evil acts. betrayal, rapeand fanaticism or who are just super into hitler! Would this be the moment Carlson, who in 2021 texted his then-producer? Alex Pfeiffer saying that Trump is “a demonic force, a destroyer,” would join other conservative patriots Publicly denounce the man he had so happily denounced in private?

If I had, it would have been wonderful! But somehow, the truth is even more astonishing. Instead, Carlson responded that he had “direct experience” with the evil a year and a half ago, when “I was in my bed at night. “They attacked me while I was sleeping with my wife and four dogs and they mauled me, they physically mutilated me.”

Occam’s Razor would have us assume that the culprit here was one of those four dogs. After all, those dogs were rumored to be powerful enough to deny the former presidential candidate Ron De Santis Carson’s endorsement in the primaries. Sure, Carlson. denied that rumorBut ask anyone who sleeps with their pets (including this correspondent): they’ll almost certainly wake up to a scratch or bump, between canine dreams of chasing rabbits and that early-morning demand for food.

But Carlson went straight to hell with his assumptions, saying he was attacked “by a demon, or something invisible that left claw marks on my sides.”

“I was totally confused,” Carlson says. “I woke up and couldn’t breathe, I thought I was going to suffocate, I walked outside and then went in, and my wife and dogs hadn’t woken up and were very light sleepers. .”

“And then I had these terrible pains in my ribcage and in my shoulder, and I was just in my boxers and I turned on the bathroom light, and I had four claw marks on each side under my arms and on my left shoulder. And they are bleeding.” He came to believe that the claws came from a demon, which prompted him to spend “a year and a half reading (the Bible), and then I started rereading it, and it was a transformative experience for me.”

That transformation didn’t come on Halloween, when Carlson welcomed Trump to a stop in Glendale, Arizona, on his Tucker Carlson LiveTour. According toward Arizona RepublicThe former president’s appearance was quite calm. Carlson fired “soft questions at Trump, who for about 90 minutes covered years of familiar material in incoherent stories.”

“He peppered his comments with casual cruelty,” the newspaper notes. The most about Trump notable comments that night—who wanted to put his fellow Republicans Liz Cheney “with a rifle standing there with nine barrels firing at him. OK? Let’s see how you feel about it. You know, when the guns are pointed at your face,” was unquestionable Carlson, who earlier this week also supported vaguely sexualized domestic spankings.

The whole situation suggests that Heers might be onto something to do with the “presence of evil” after all; You could simply be asking the wrong people where the Devil really resides.