Did Tucker Carlson, 'prophet' Brandon Briggs predict assassination attempt on Trump?
Justin Peters says Briggs' claim is not fulfilled prophecy
Several months before a gunman attempted to assassinate former President and 2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump on Saturday, conservative media personality Tucker Carlson and a pastor identified as "prophet" Brandon Briggs, predicted that an attempt would be made on Trump's life.
Speaking last August on Adam Corolla’s daily podcast, a clip of which was shared on YouTube, Carlson said, “permanent Washington” had tried and failed to stop Trump’s political rise in 2024 so he expected an attempt to be made to assassinate the former president.
“What do you think the future holds? Is it, I don't know, are they going to let Trump be president?” Corolla asked Carlson.
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The conservative political commentator contended that the political establishment in Washington finds something about Trump so threatening they are determined to keep him out of the oval office for a second term, even if it means taking his life.
“I mean, look, they protested him. They called him names. He won anyway. They impeached him twice on ridiculous pretenses. They fabricated a lot about what happened on January 6th in order to impeach him again. It didn't work. He came back. Then they indicted him. It didn't work. He became more popular. Then they indicted him three more times and every single time his popularity rose,” Carlson said.
“So, if you begin with criticism then you go to protest, then you go to impeachment, now you go to indictment and none of them work, what's next? I mean, graph it out, man! We're speeding toward assassination, obviously,” Carlson warned. “No one will say that, but I don't know how you can’t reach that conclusion, you know what I mean? They have decided, permanent Washington, both parties have decided that there's something about Trump that's so threatening to them they just can't have him.”
Justin Peters of Justin Peters Ministries, said, “God is always working; He is never not working,” but he doesn’t believe God miraculously intervened to turn Trump’s head, though He did protect Trump who will not die before God’s appointed timing.
Addressing Carlson's assertion over 10 months ago that those in power would try to assassinate Trump, which was followed by an actual attempt on the former president's life last Saturday, Peters posited, “Does this make Tucker Carlson a prophet? No!” he said. "This makes him someone who offered an educated guess and a quite reasonable one. This is not a fulfilled prophecy.”
In March, Briggs, during an interview with Steve Cioccolanti & Discover Ministries, said God gave him specific chilling details about the assassination attempt on Trump’s life as well as a dark time that would come with his presidency.
“I saw a red wave coming out of Michigan and then I saw Oklahoma, and there were embers of people and … they had torches all throughout Oklahoma. And they were raising up these torches that looked like fire and they were bringing forth a new patriotism upon the nation … and it just kept spreading like fire all throughout America,” Briggs said.
“And I saw Trump rising up, and then I saw [an] attempt on his life, that this bullet flew by his ear. And it came so close to his head that it busted his … eardrum,” Briggs claimed.
Peters, a cessationist, contends that Briggs’ claim, despite appearing to be "similar to real events," is also not fulfilled prophecy. "Anytime a prophecy seems to be, might have been, at least tangentially fulfilled" … some people believe it.
“Briggs prophecy is not fulfilled prophecy" because, he said, "it is a general prophecy. … If you’re wanting to kill a presidential candidate … your only option is a gun … some distance away … the most obvious target is his head. That is the highest percentage of a kill shot,” Peters explained, stressing that it’s a difficult subject for people to talk about but Briggs’ claim is just an educated guess.”
“Here’s the next reason why his prophecy is not a true prophecy, because it is, in fact, a false prophecy, because Briggs said the bullet would ‘come close to his head, close to his ear, so closer that it would burst his eardrum.’ That’s not what happened," Peters stressed.
“The bullet didn’t just zip past his head close, not making contact. It actually did make contact with President Trump. It hit his ear, so the bullet did make contact … it made contact with his flesh. So, he got that wrong. And then, when he said it would burst his eardrum, well, that didn’t happen either. So God did not give him this vision. This is not a true prophetic vision. If God were truly giving him a real prophetic vision, it would have been much more specific about the date and exactly what would happen.”
In a statement on Truth Social after the attack, Trump said, “I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear.”
Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old gunman in the attack, as well as audience member Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old volunteer fire chief, were killed during the attack. David Dutch, 57, of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, and James Copenhaver, 74, of Moon Township, Pennsylvania, were also injured.
Briggs noted in his vision, he saw Trump fall to his knees during the attack “and he started worshiping the Lord. He got radically born again during this time frame.”
“People say he's saved now, but he becomes really on fire for Jesus for what I saw coming,” Briggs said.
Peters also refutes Briggs claim that Trump was radically born again after he instinctively crouched down to evade the gunfire. “He (Trump) didn’t stand back up and start praising Jesus. Donald Trump is not a Christian,” Peters maintained.
He predicted Trump would go on to win the presidential election in November, but it would be followed by an economic crash worse than the Great Depression.
“There will be a great economy crash. I saw they had a great econom[ic] crash worse than the Great Depression and the Lord warned me about this. It would be a great dark time. But I saw paddles coming upon America’s soil like a shocking of the soil and I saw Donald Trump praying in … the Oval Office and he was weeping before the Lord with his hands on his head.”
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