All posts tagged "Tucker Carlson"

A top Trump national security official may have revealed who the government's pre-election security push is really aimed at, just days before the midterms.

White House counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka said in an interview with The Epoch Times that the government must act "whenever" conservative commentator Tucker Carlson "posts a new anti-American interview," independent journalist Ken Klippenstein reported Friday in his Substack newsletter.

Gorka was responding to a question about how the government could address foreign influence operations on social media platforms such as TikTok. He waved off what he called the "knee-jerk" impulse to invoke the First Amendment, insisting "there are things we have to do if there's a threat to national security that actually comports with the U.S. Constitution."...

A one-time Trump confidant who helped shape the president's second administration is now owning up to a painful miscalculation about their relationship.

Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host turned podcaster, told the Financial Times in an interview that he badly misjudged his sway over President Donald Trump. "I got completely deluded," Carlson said. "Like I so overstated my power that it was embarrassing. He didn't care what I thought at all."

Carlson, who campaigned for Trump in 2024 and helped him choose JD Vance as his running mate, said he believed he had earned the president's trust during the first term by never asking for favors. He told the Financial Times he pushed relentlessly to keep the United States out of foreign conflicts, butting heads with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo along the way....

President Donald Trump tore into three of his most prominent MAGA-turned-critics — Tucker Carlson, Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene — in a lengthy Truth Social post, reviving his feud with a breakaway faction openly plotting against him.

The post referenced an early-August gathering at Carlson's Maine lodge, where the former Fox host hosted Massie, Greene and others who reportedly urged him toward a 2028 presidential run. Carlson has vowed to help build a third party and stop backing the GOP.

Trump was unsparing....

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who was defeated by a Trump-backed primary challenger earlier this year, made a visit on Sunday to Iowa — a traditional destination for candidates exploring a presidential run.

Massie, who broke with Donald Trump in opposing the Iran war and defied the administration through his sponsorship of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, has emerged as a leading figure, alongside former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, of a new anti-interventionist, populist faction challenging the GOP.

Addressing Gun Owners of America’s annual gathering in Des Moines, Massie thanked the organizers “for having this event in Iowa,” adding, “There’s no place I’d rather be — maybe New Hampshire or South Carolina. Just kidding.”...

NewsNation's Chris Cuomo pressured former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino on X Monday over what he has done to give the public closure over the Jeffrey Epstein trafficking case files — and he threw a public meltdown in response.

The exchange came after Bongino went on the offensive against far-right former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson, who is claiming to have evidence that the Trump administration "shut down" the investigation into the president's own attempted assassination on the campaign trail in Butler, Pennsylvania in 2024.

Bongino, himself a far-right podcaster dating back to before his brief time with the FBI, repeatedly took to X, demanding Carlson show his evidence....

The departure of a right-wing star subtly hides a darker statement, according to a former Republican insider.

Steve Schmidt, a long-time GOP strategist, spoke on his podcast The Warning about right-winger Tucker Carlson's announcement that he's leaving the Republican Party. He dissected Carlson's move but put it in a context that Schmidt said revealed a deeper motive.

"Tucker Carlson has left because of the Jews," Schmidt said. "That's what he's saying."...