On Wednesday’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson responded to his fiery Wednesday interview with Arkansas Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson after the governor vetoed a bill that would make the Natural State the first to have gender reassignment prohibit hormone treatment and surgery. .
Carlson said Hutchinson, who is limited to the term, has repeatedly claimed that he has not consulted with any of Arkansas’ mega-corporations or elites, such as the Walton family, the founders of WalMart, Tyson Foods or Dillard.
“Tucker, I answered the question, and I said, ‘No, I did not,'” Hutchinson said Tuesday.
However, Carlson pointed to a statement released by Thomas Walton, a son of WalMart founder Sam Walton, brother of former WalMart chairman S. Robson Walton, and a Walton Family Foundation committee chairman:
We are concerned about the range of policies that LGBTQ people are pursuing in Arkansas. This trend is harmful and sends the wrong message to those who are willing to invest in or visit our state. We support Governor Asa Hutchinson’s recent veto on discriminatory policies and urge government, business and community leaders to consider the impact of existing and future policies that limit basic freedoms and do not promote inclusivity in our communities and economy.
Our nation is built on inalienable rights and strengthened by individual differences. Arkansas has been called the land of opportunity because it is a place where anyone can think big and achieve the extraordinary. Any policy that limits the individual opportunity also limits our state’s potential. ‘
Carlson, who would have banned the operation under the bill as “chemical castration,” said Hutchinson was “fairly definitive” in his statement.
“We had to accept his word for it. He was very emphatic. We seem to be lying,” Carlson said.
‘The day we spoke to him, the Walton family made its decision to veto the bill passed by the legislature – Not just any family, the richest family in the world and, of course, the most powerful family in the state. of Arkansas. They wanted Asa Hutchinson to know that he did exactly what they wanted him to do. ‘
“If Walmart is going to sell a lifetime amount of drugs to transgender people, it would be good if your legislation and any bill could be vetoed,” the host said.
Carlson added that he had spoken to a source who claimed that if the governor left office, he would “very much like a council seat” in the Bentonville, Ark., Corporation.
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“Only a few days ago, he appeared on this network to admit that he first reflects on the major global companies before making decisions on transgender issues,” he continued before playing a clip from an interview with Hutchinson in March gave:
‘We’re home to some great global corporations here in Arkansas. They are certainly concerned about the image of our state, but we are trying to send the signal that you can protect the conscience, that you can protect the girls in sports without being it. discriminatory, ”the governor said.
The host said the comments could be translated as saying that companies in the state ‘are less concerned about the children’ in it, and that he hopes these actions will not lead to them ‘continuing to be chemically castrated by quack-doctors’ not.’
Fox News’s Yael Halon Contributed to This Report.