When President Donald Trump ordered the airstrike that killed Iranian terror leader Qassem Suleimani, one person wasn’t happy.
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson.
Over the past week, Carlson has expressed his unhappiness with Trump’s decision — a rare departure for the conservative commentator.
Monday, Carlson turned to the criticism toward the White House and wasn’t shy about suggesting Trump is ignoring his years-long promise to abandon the Middle East and focus on “American First” issues that have been plaguing the country…
“In 2016 Donald Trump ran on a promise of fewer foreign adventures,” Carlson said, “considering the ones we’d embarked upon didn’t work very well. He vowed instead to focus on our problems here at home, which are growing.”
Carlson suggested that promise might have gone out of the window.
“Ever since, Washington, including some around the president, have been committed to ignoring the results of that election and its implications.”
“Washington has wanted war with Iran for decades,” Carlson said bluntly. “They’d been working toward it. They may have gotten it.”
This in no way means that Carlson is now suddenly a Never Trumper — or anything close to it.
But a moment like this is indeed a rarity, and proof that the strike on Iran is causing serious concern around the world.
Carlson has accused key Republican figures such as Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., Ben Sasse, R-Neb., and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of corrupting the Trump administration’s campaign promises in favor of “for profit” neoconservative “war drums.”
“Now, suddenly, we are on the brink of war,” Carlson said. “In Washington, that is considered an upgrade, indeed a massive improvement. It’s harder to get rich and powerful in Washington during peacetime, so our leaders have a built-in bias for war,” he added, mockingly.
But Carlson says before we mobilize and ready to launch an offensive, that we need to remember one thing.
The Deep State intel officials have never told the truth, he said.
“Just the other day,” he said, “you remember, our intel agencies were considered politically tainted and suspect. Keep in mind, these are the people who invented excuses to spy on the Trump campaign, purely because they didn’t like Donald Trump’s foreign policy views, and they’re the ones who pretended he was a Russian agent in order to keep him from governing.
“Remember that? Russiagate?” Carlson asked. “Our friends at the intel community did that.”
Carlson suggested that he’s seen this movie before.
“And by the way these are the same people who lied about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction way back in 2002 and by doing that, got us into an utterly pointless war that dramatically weakened our country.”
“The people pushing conflict with Iran are the same people who did that,” Carlson declared.
“It seems like about 20 minutes ago, we were denouncing these very people as the Deep State and pledging never to trust them again without verification.”
He closed by a recent segment on a hopeful note, saying that “Maybe all this will turn out fine in the end. We’re certainly praying for it. We love this country.”
“But in the meantime, pardon the skepticism.”