Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson ripped into President Donald Trump on Wednesday, accusing his administration of using Charlie Kirk‘s death as an excuse to attack the First Amendment rights of Americans.

Speaking on his podcast, the influential conservative worried that the administration would enact strict laws around speech in the wake of Kirk’s shooting. He said that a country with curtailed speech rights is “the opposite of the one [Kirk] worked to build.”

“You hope that a year from now, the turmoil we’re seeing in the aftermath of his murder won’t be leveraged to bring hate speech laws to this country,” Carlson said. “If that does happen, there is never a more justified moment for civil disobedience, there never will be.”

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