Tucker Carlson

You can't be corrupt in the open, of course.

You need to be shielded by secrecy.

By the way, this is a president who was indicted and threatened with the rest of his life in prison for violating secrecy laws.

Secrecy laws which were not written to protect American national security.

Of course not.

And they haven't.

They didn't prevent Jonathan Pollard from stealing our key military secrets and giving them to the Israeli government, which promptly gave them to the Soviets.

That didn't help at all.

No, those laws were written to prevent you, the people who pay for the federal government, from learning what the federal government is actually doing.

Secrecy abats corruption.

It's obvious.

None of this can thrive in sunlight.

It dies, famously.

And so...

The pledge, the promise, the core promise behind America first and drain the swamp and every other slogan, all of which I loved, I'll just say it, and love to this day.

The pledge behind all of those was to let people know what their own government is doing, both because they have a right to know and because once they do know, the corruption will stop.

It's about corruption.

It's about a justice system that does not treat every person as a citizen, much less a child of God, but treats them as members of castes.

And members of some castes have to obey the law and members of other castes don't.

There is not equal treatment under the law.