Tucker Carlson erupts into Argentina’s presidential marketing campaign with Javier Milei interview

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentinian presidential candidate Javier Milei railed towards socialism and praised Donald Trump in an interview with U.S. host Tucker Carlson that has underlined how international consideration is specializing in Argentina since Milei emerged because the frontrunner within the nation’s presidential race.

In the interview posted Thursday on Carlson’s web page on X, previously referred to as Twitter, the self-described “anarcho capitalist” Milei characterised campaigns to legalize abortion and to put restrictions on economies over local weather change as being a part of a “socialist agenda.”

Carlson, who was fired from Fox News earlier this yr, traveled to Argentina to interview Milei, who rocked Argentina’s political institution when he obtained essentially the most votes in August primaries that function a large ballot of voter preferences forward of the October election.

During the interview, Milei praised former U.S. President Trump and known as on him to “continue with his fight against socialism, because he’s one of the few who fully understood that the battle is against socialism, that the battle is against the statists.”

Milei, who has been a lawmaker in Argentina’s decrease home of Congress since 2021, additionally characterised the motion round local weather change as being a part of the “socialist agenda.” Milei went on to say that “the world has experienced other peaks of high temperatures like it’s currently experiencing,” including that “it’s a cyclical behavior.”

Abortion, he added, is “a much darker” aspect of that very same agenda as a result of “as a consequence of humans causing harm to the planet, they then advocate for the assassination of people in the mother’s womb.” Argentina legalized abortion in 2020.

Carlson was fired from Fox News earlier this yr after the community agreed to pay greater than $787 million to settle a lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems over airing false claims relating to the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

Carlson’s interview with Milei comes shortly after the previous Fox News host interviewed the nationalist Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who additionally praised Trump throughout their sit-down.

Carlson posted an introduction to the Milei interview summarizing Argentina’s delicate financial scenario, together with a scene wherein he goes to an unlawful overseas change home and exchanges $100 as an example the depreciation of the Argentine peso.

Carlson was filmed receiving stacks of 100-peso payments at a time when the unofficial change fee is round 720 pesos per U.S. greenback (Argentina additionally has 500, 1,000 and a couple of,000-peso payments). Access to the official overseas change market is severely restricted so parallel charges have flourished.

Carlson characterised Argentina as a cautionary story to the remainder of the world contemplating that it’s already experiencing the “hyperinflation and reckless monetary policy” that “could soon devastate the global economy.”

Argentina is experiencing annual inflation of greater than 100% however has but to achieve hyperinflation ranges.

Billionaire businessman Elon Musk, who owns X, commented on Carlson‘s submit, saying: “Government overspending, which is the fundamental cause of inflation, has wrecked countless countries.”

During the interview, Milei additionally harshly criticized Argentine Pope Francis, saying he “has an affinity for murderous communists” claiming he helps “dictators” just like the presidents of Cuba and Venezuela. “That is to say, he’s on the side of bloody dictatorships,” Milei mentioned. Milei has insulted the pope up to now, resulting in protests by monks in Argentina.

Milei additionally mentioned that as president he wouldn’t do “business with China” nor “any communist” and that he desires to be a “moral beacon for the continent.”