It seems accidental, but there's no denying Tucker Carlson's timing. He was likely unaware that a new story about Jeffrey Epstein feeding sexual assault victims to Donald Trump had hit the news, when he warmed up a MAGA rally with an incest-and-pedophilia-tinged fantasy about the GOP candidate. Comparing liberals to a 15-year-old girl who slams her bedroom door in a tantrum, Carlson waxed poetic about the sexualized abuse of a minor.

"When dad gets home, you know what he says? ‘You’ve been a bad girl. You’ve been a bad little girl, and you’re getting a vigorous spanking right now," Carlson fantasized, while the crowd of young conservatives cheered wildly. Meanwhile, the Guardian was rolling out new sexual abuse accusations against Trump, this time in the context of his long friendship with notorious pedophile Epstein. Former model Stacey Williams, unaware of Epstein's sex crimes, dated the deceased criminal briefly in the 90s. During this time, she alleges, Epstein trapped her with Trump, who sexually assaulted her in front of Epstein. She says she saw Epstein and Trump share smiles during the assault.

Sexual abuse as a bonding ritual between men was also the theme of Carlson's "daddy" speech on Wednesday. While he repeatedly discussed the joy of giving a teenage girl "a vigorous spanking because you’ve been a bad girl," the rally crowd went nuts. When Trump took the stage, they chanted "daddy's home," in celebration of a man who a jury ruled sexually assaulted journalist E. Jean Carroll around the same time Williams claims to have been assaulted. Trump himself has bragged about sexually assaulting women, which he described in giddy detail on the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape.

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