'Dumb!' MAGA lawmaker rages at Tucker Carlson after being called out for genocidal remarks

Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) lashed out at Tucker Carlson Friday after the conservative political commentator criticized his past “genocidal” remarks, alongside his material support for “a military committing genocide,” referencing the lawmaker’s fervorous backing of the Israeli military amid its ongoing siege on Gaza.

“We have a sitting member of Congress from Florida called Randy Fine who has literally put on Twitter ‘we should kill them all, every single one,’” Tucker said Thursday while appearing on “The Megyn Kelly Show.”

“Someone texted a picture literally of a dead baby and he laughs at it, and it’s like, this guy’s a lawmaker who’s appropriating money to a military committing genocide, and that’s cool? It’s not cool.”

Tucker was making reference to several controversial statements Fine had made on social media amid Israel’s siege on Gaza.

In July, Fine said Gazans should ‘starve away’ until all Israeli hostages were returned, a remark made in response to reports about rising famine deaths of Gazans amid Israel’s aid blockade. And in 2021, in response to a social media user who shared a photo of what appears to be a Gazan infant buried in rubble, along with the question “how do you sleep at night,” Fine responded “quite well, actually,” and “thanks for the pic!”

Tucker’s comments were made in the wake of his interview with Nick Fuentes, an outspoken white supremacist and admirer of Adolf Hitler, which has sparked a MAGA civil war and seen condemnation from both liberal and conservative figures. Tucker went on to call Fine’s actions in supporting Israel “much worse” than “anything” Fuentes has said, a remark that didn’t sit well with Fine.

“Tucker Carlson just called me ‘much worse’ than Nick Fuentes,” Fine wrote in a social media post on X Friday.

“I had believed he was just paid off by the Qataris and other enemies of America to parrot this nonsense. Now I wonder if the guy is just really, really, really dumb.”

Fine has frequently attacked Carlson in recent days, calling him “insane” and “dangerous” on CNN, and earlier this week while speaking at the Republican Jewish Coalition Leadership Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada, he called Carlson “the most dangerous antisemite in America,” and proclaimed him to be “not MAGA.”

In her interview with Carlson, Kelly condemned Fuentes for having said “a long list of very vile things,” a statement Carlson agreed with: “big time,” he responded.