Longtime Fox News star Tucker Carlson’s ongoing rift with President Donald Trump reached an untenable level over the weekend after Carlson ripped into Trump on social media.
Carlson, a former ally and supporter of Trump, escalated his attacks against Trump after weeks of criticism against the president over the escalating U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.
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Trump loudly dismissed them as “troublemakers” who are seeking publicity at his expense with their criticism of a war that his conservative critics see as a violation of his “America First” campaign pledge to keep the U.S. out of wars in the Middle East.
“They’re stupid people,” he wrote.
“They know it, their families know it, and everyone else knows it, too! Look at their past, look at their record.”
Trump, who said their views are “the opposite of MAGA,” also said he now refuses to take calls from them, echoing a declaration he made following an earlier break with former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, also a longtime supporter of Trump.
Over the weekend, The Tucker Carlson Network’s (TCN) daily newsletter responded to the latest round of attacks from the president.
🚨The Tucker Carlson newsletter responds to Trump: pic.twitter.com/FjngApEupj
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Below is the complete response —
Establishment media never reports this, but the Israeli government has a storied history of blackmailing U.S. presidents.
Perhaps the most jarring example occurred in the 90s, when Israel used recordings of a Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky phone sex session as leverage to pressure Clinton into releasing convicted spy Jonathan Pollard from prison. We’re not joking. That really happened.
The phone sex story is worth remembering as President Trump attempts to end the Iran War. Like many other things Israel has done, it shows that America’s “special ally” is willing to play very dirty to achieve its goals. Dark-money campaign contributions, extortion, physical threats, and even assassination. In their anti-Christian worldview, the ends always justify the means. They have no issue destroying lives.
Israel’s current top priority is making sure Operation Epic Fury does not stop. They know the U.S. fighting their war for them is the best chance at expanding their borders and becoming a global superpower, and a peace deal would foil their plot. Based on the country’s past, its leaders are doubtlessly willing to push as hard as necessary to ensure the bloodshed continues. That could mean Clinton-style blackmail against Trump, or something far more morbid.
We do not know for sure whether that is happening, but the mere possibility is haunting enough to keep the president up at night. He is under a level of pressure that most people cannot fathom, with rabid Israel Firsters viciously harassing him any time he dares to stray even slightly from their favorite country’s agenda. Their shameless pursuit is steadfast enough to make even a man like Donald Trump go mad. They are as persistent as any group in history, no matter how well the White House has treated them in the past. They are never grateful, they always want more, and they refuse to give the president even an inch of breathing room. It is an unrelenting full-court press.
We decided to write about this after Trump published a Truth Social post attacking our company, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones, each of whom supported him for years. Rather than engaging in petty name-calling, we want to give the president some grace. He is facing a level of pressure that is dark enough to make him abandon his campaign promises and morph into the precise kind of politician he once vowed to destroy. He would not have let that happen unless his personal stakes were really high. We hope he overcomes.
Carlson’s shocking retort comes on the heels of a bombshell claim the conservative pundit made last month that the CIA has been spying on his text messages the Department of Justice could soon issue a warrant for his arrest.
Carlson posted a five-minute video in mid-March titled “We Discovered the CIA Is Reading Our Texts to Frame Us for a Crime,” which claims a government surveillance effort has targeted him for his communications with Iranian insiders before the U.S.-Israeli war began.
“The CIA is preparing some kind of criminal referral against me, a crime report to the Department of Justice, on the basis of a supposed crime I committed,” Carlson said.
“What’s that crime? Well, talking to people in Iran before the war,” he said. “They read my texts.”
Carlson claimed the government intends to charge him under the Foreign Agents Registration Act — a 1938 law that requires individuals acting as paid agents of foreign governments to register with the DOJ.
He flatly denied acting as an agent of Iran.
“I’m not an agent of a foreign power,” Carlson said. “Unlike a lot of people commenting on U.S. politics and global affairs, I have only one loyalty and that’s the United States and have never acted against it.”
He also denied receiving any foreign money. “Don’t need it, don’t want it,” he said.
This is a developing story. Check back for further updates.