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full screenTucker Carlson speaks at Donald Trump’s campaign rally in New York at the end of October. Archive image. Photo: Alex Brandon/AP/TT
The reason why the US is hit by more and more hurricanes is because women have abortions. So claims the influential conservative journalist Tucker Carlson, who campaigns for Donald Trump.
The revelation came in a podcast – run by former Trump adviser Stephen Bannon, who was recently released from prison – on Monday, writes the New York Times.
– I will certainly be attacked for this, but this is my belief, says the former Fox News anchor Carlson.
He also dismissed the scientific evidence that exists for the link between climate change and more regularly occurring hurricanes, saying it “is actually probably about abortions.”
The abortion issue is one of the most important for voters in the US presidential election. The issue is deeply disputed and has been in focus since the country’s highest court in 2022 overturned an earlier ruling that ruled that the right to abortion is part of the constitutionally protected right to privacy.