Fox News host Tucker Carlson told Laura Ingraham on Thursday morning that it’s ‘moronic’ for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to say he’s leaving it up to the female members of the Senate to decide whether sexual harassers in Congress should be “unmasked.”

“That’s so moronic that I can’t even deal with it,” said Carlson on “The Laura Ingraham Show.”

“I mean, look, the law oughta apply universally to all people regardless of sex or race. Period. So the idea that one sex gets to make decisions for everybody … that’s grotesque. That’s, by definition, a perversion of justice. Why would any normal person go along with that?”

Carlson was responding to what McConnell had said on the issue during an interview Wednesday night with Ingraham on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.”

Ingraham had asked McConnell if he was in favor of unmasking the names of the sexual harassers in Congress whose victims have been paid settlements out of a secretive fund — a “shush fund.”

“There are a bunch of people whose names are unknown,” said Ingraham, “even apparently to the congressman who’s in charge of the committee who’s apparently overseeing …”

“Well, Laura, I think my attitude about that is, I want to wait and see what the women of the Senate recommend on that and the other issues we’re talking about,” said McConnell.

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“Why just the women of the Senate?” she asked.

“I think they’re in a very good position to take the lead,” McConnell responded, adding that men are also involved.

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“I can’t even wait for your question,” said Carlson on the radio on Thursday, after hearing the clip, calling the idea “moronic.”

“I understand that women are primarily the victims of sex harassment,” he said. “But that doesn’t mean … Men are primarily the victims of murder. Should the writing of murder, laws against murder, be reserved only for men? Like, that’s insane. That’s crazy.”

Two female members of the House of Representatives — Barbara Comstock, a Republican from Virginia, and Jackie Speier, a Democrat from California — blew the lid off the story of the secret fund earlier this month, revealing that over $17 million has been paid out to congressional employees over the past 20 years to resolve sexual harassment and other discrimination-related issues. The names of the members of Congress who have been involved in such settlements have not yet been revealed, and even Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has said he doesn’t know the names.

The fund, administered by the Office of Compliance, has shielded members of Congress from bad publicity while paying off their accusers with taxpayer money.

The fund, ironically, was established following passage of the Congressional Accountability Act, which was intended to make workplace-related laws apply to Congress. After passage of the law, for example, congressional offices had to begin to pay overtime to some staffers if they worked more than eight hours in a day.

But the fund, administered by the Office of Compliance, has had the opposite effect, shielding members of Congress from bad publicity while paying off their accusers with taxpayer money.

On his show on November 28, Carlson revealed that he had been falsely accused of felony rape by a woman he had never met, and had “literally never even seen.”

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The woman, a CPA and upstanding member of her community, he said, told law enforcement “horrifying” details about the alleged rape, which she said occurred in the back of a restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky, several years ago.

“None of it — none of it — was true,” said Carlson. “I spent the next two years trying to stay out of jail … I spoke only to lawyers, and I paid them a fortune.”

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