Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) said he would kill right-wing media personality Tucker Carlson if the two ever met in person.
“Have you ever met Tucker?” Steven Edginton of Britain’s GB News asked Crenshaw as the two chatted after an interview in a clip the news organization posted on X.
“We’ve talked a lot on Twitter,” Crenshaw said, referring to the barbs he and Carlson have traded online. “If I ever meet him, I’ll fucking kill him.”
He also called Carlson “the worst person” during the apparent hot-mic moment.
GB News later deleted the clip, but others have reposted it widely on social media.
As the clip went viral, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) asked Crenshaw in a post on X if he threatened to kill Carlson.
“lol, no,” Crenshaw replied.
Edginton, however, added on X: “He told me when I laughed it wasn’t a joke.”
Carlson then replied on X by challenging Crenshaw to appear on his show.
“Why don’t you come sit for an interview and we’ll see how you do?” the former Fox News host wrote. “I’ll send you my address.”
Crenshaw and Carlson have sparred online for years, with Carlson last year calling the Republican lawmaker the “single-most left-wing” member of Congress he’s ever met. Carlson accused Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL who lost his right eye while deployed in Afghanistan, of having “no interest in the United States whatsoever.”
He’s also called Crenshaw “eye patch McCain,” a reference to the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who Carlson and others on the right have attacked for not being conservative enough.
Crenshaw last year called Carlson a “cowardly, know-nothing elitist who is full of shit.”
“Tucker’s MO is simple: defend America’s enemies and attack America’s allies,” Crenshaw wrote. “There isn’t an objective bone left in that washed up news host’s body.”
Crenshaw went after Carlson again this week during the more formal part of his GB News interview when he was asked about the right-wing host’s attacks on aid for Ukraine.
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“Tucker doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” he said. “Tucker likes to visit Moscow and talk about how great the grocery stores are so I don’t really take his advice very seriously.”