By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American)
During a nearly two-hour interview with The New York Times, podcaster Tucker Carlson explained his break with President Donald Trump because of the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, his suggestion that Trump could be the Antichrist, his view on Israel’s waging war on civilians, and his regret at interviewing podcaster Nick Fuentes.
Carlson claimed that Israel held Trump “hostage,” and that the president was highly skeptical of going to war, yet proceeded anyway after Carlson repeatedly urged him not to order an attack.
He said he regrets supporting Trump, and apologized for it.
Noting that he has been speaking with Trump for 15 years about wars in the Middle East, Carlson told the Times’ Lulu Garcia-Navarro that Trump knew how disastrous the war in Iraq had been, which was a “main reason” Carlson supported and campaigned for him.
“It was really central to my views of Trump’s candidacy and presidency,” Carlson said:
So when it became clear in June that we were starting down this road toward a regime change with Iran, I was baffled. I was very upset. …
I thought it would be terrible for the United States, as it has been, worse even than I imagined. But I could see exactly where this was going. And he was under enormous pressure to do this, as all presidents in my lifetime have been. So we talked a lot in June. He embarked on this effort to take out Iran’s nuclear program, which is really just the opening salvo in a regime-change effort. He knew that. I told him that. Charlie Kirk told him that.
Carlson repeatedly met with Trump before the attack on Iran, including in the Oval Office. And Trump “never seemed enthusiastic about it” despite his oft-repeated mantra that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
“My strong feeling by the end of those conversations — the last one was probably a week before the war began — was that he felt he had no choice and that he was resigned to it,” Carlson said:
He was unhappy about it. He didn’t seem enthusiastic at all. There was no effort to say, once we do this, the United States will be at peace, we’ll be safe, we will be more prosperous. There was none of that. Zero.
Carlson said “no one in the building” supported attacking Iran, but that the usual coterie of neoconservative Israel-firsters — Fox News tycoon Rupert Murdoch, moneybags widow Miriam Adelson, and Fox News bloviators Mark Levin and Sean Hannity — were importuning Trump to attack.
Asked about telling the BBC that Trump was a “slave” to Israel, Carlson said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and “his many advocates in the United States” hold Trump “hostage”…
Read the rest here: https://thenewamerican.com/us/nyt-interview-carlson-explains-split-with-trump-on-iran-whether-trump-is-evil-whos-worse-cruz-or-fuentes/
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