Media Matters has the transcript:
If you subvert the meaning of a word as fundamental as “democracy,” maybe you can tamper with the way we live here in the United States, just spitballing for a second. So Ukraine, to be technical, is not a democracy.
Democracies don’t arrest political opponents and they don’t shutdown opposition media, both of which Ukraine has done.
And by the way, Ukraine is a pure client state of the United States State Department — again, that’s fine. We are not mad about that, go ahead and run Ukraine if you want if you think you can do a better job than Ukraine is, just don’t tell us it’s democracy.
Ukraine isn’t a democracy. It’s a State Department client state. pic.twitter.com/Vww44gwX4k
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 24, 2022