Brad Thor Changes
Story About What He Meant in Glenn Beck Interview
by Patrick Howley 31 May 2016
Fiction author Brad Thor changed his story Tuesday
about what he meant in an interview that ultimately got Glenn Beck suspended
from SiriusXM radio.
Beck has been suspended after SiriusXM
reviewed his conversation last week with Thor, who appeared to imagine
some “patriot” stepping up and removing Donald Trump Trump
from office — which several conservative outlets interpreted as a reference to
assassination or a coup.
But Thor made the rounds Tuesday — including Dana
Loesch’s radio show — to claim that he was not talking about assassination.
“No. We were discussing if he became a dictator. And, if
he did, I’d want him to stand trial,” Thor said on Twitter in response to a critic
calling out his comments.
But Thor was obviously not talking about a “trial,”
according to his own comments in that
controversial interview. In fact, Thor said, “I don’t think there is
a legal means available.”
He is a danger to America and I got to ask you a question
and this is serious and this could ring down incredible heat on me because I’m
about to suggest something very bad. It is a hypothetical I am going to ask as
a thriller writer.
With the feckless, spineless Congress we have, who will stand
in the way of Donald Trump overstepping his constitutional authority as
President? If Congress won’t remove him from office, what patriot will step up
and do that if, if, he oversteps his mandate as president, his
constitutional-granted authority, I should say, as president.
If he oversteps that, how do we get him out of office?
And I don’t think there is a legal means available. I think it will be a
terrible, terrible position the American people will be in to get Trump out of
office because you won’t be able to do it through Congress.
Thor told an
even different story to Beck’s publication The Blaze, saying
that he was hoping for some kind of “George Washington” to rise up against
Trump to lead some kind of presumably armed revolution. The Blaze reported
Tuesday:
In a comment to TheBlaze, Thor, who previously called
on people to pray for Trump’s safety, said he was discussing a
“hypothetical America under a dictator,” reiterating that he was not referring
to an “assassination” in his comments.
“What happens if a president suspends the Constitution
and Congress does nothing?” Thor asked. “Safeguarding the Republic against
despotism is a topic of conversation that dates back to the Founders.”
Offering additional clarification about his previous
comments, Thor said, “If we had to unseat a president without the backing of
the Congress, we would need a patriot along the lines of George Washington to
lead the country from tyranny back to liberty.”
This is the second controversy to engulf Beck regarding
comments he made on air about Trump and violence. In March, the Secret Service investigated the
radio host due to comments he made joking with his co-host about “stabbing,”
which initial reports claimed were in reference to Trump.
Sirius XM radio
Mel Karmazin was a
CEO & director for the SIRIUS XM
Radio Inc., is a condo owner at the Trump
International Hotel & Tower, New York, and the vice chairman for the Paley Center for Media.
Note: Donald Trump is a
stakeholder in the Trump International
Hotel & Tower, New York, the candidate for the 2016 Donald Trump presidential campaign,
and a director at the Police Athletic
League of New York City.
Dan
Rather was a director at the Police
Athletic League of New York City, and a trustee at the Paley Center for Media.
David M. Zaslav
a trustee at the Paley Center for Media,
and a director at SIRIUS XM Radio Inc.
Mel Karmazin is the
vice chairman for the Paley Center for
Media a condo owner at the Trump
International Hotel & Tower, New York, and was a CEO & director for
the SIRIUS XM Radio Inc.
Peter A. Chernin
was a trustee at the Paley Center for
Media, and is a director at Twitter
Inc.
Alan
Alda was a trustee emeritus at
the Paley Center for Media, and is
an actor in the Tower Heist.
Trump
International Hotel & Tower, New York is featured in the Tower Heist.
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