Tucker Carlson claims Trump offered to stand guard outside his house in impromptu speech to his ‘leader’

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Former Fox News anchor and conservative provocateur Tucker Carlson says former President Donald Trump offered to stand guard at his home after protesters came to his Washington home after 2018.

Carlson received the biggest applause at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on the fourth and final night of the Republican National Convention before Trump’s speech.

Fox News and Carlson parted ways last year, but he remains a hugely popular and influential figure.

Carlson recalled that in 2018, Antifa protesters came to his house while his wife was home.

“The Democratic Party militia,” he said. “I was at work, it was obvious when I was at work because it was public. My wife was alone, they tried to come in the front door and they terrorized her.”

Carlson said the next day, Trump called his wife Susan.

“I hear it, it’s coming,” he said. “And the first thing he says is, ‘I’m going to stand guard in front of your house.’”