Tucker Carlson says he regrets backing Donald Trump and is ‘tormented by it’
Tucker Carlson, a conservative podcaster, has said he is “tormented” by his support of Donald Trump, issuing in an extraordinary mea culpa that called for “a moment to wrestle with our own consciences”.
Carlson delivered that comment in a conversation with Buckley Carlson, his brother and a former Trump speechwriter, on The Tucker Carlson Show on Monday that reviewed the sidelining of traditional conservative values in a Republican party now dominated by the president.
“You know, we’ll be tormented by it for a long time – I will be,” Tucker Carlson said. “And I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people. It was not intentional, that’s all I’ll say.” […]
But the podcaster has now been at odds with the president over US support for Israel and the war the two countries started in Iran in late February. Carlson called Trump’s language on Iran “vile on every level” – and said he took personal responsibility for the president’s return to power.
“You and I and everyone else who supported him – you wrote speeches for him, I campaigned for him – I mean, we’re implicated in this for sure,” Carlson said. “It’s not enough to say, ‘Well, I changed my mind’ – or like, ‘Oh, this is bad – I’m out,’” he told his brother.
He added: “In very small ways, but in real ways, you and me and millions of people like us are the reason this is happening right now.”
No. You were not responsible in a very small way, Fucker. You spent years being a voice for the regime on its official broadcaster and on your own show. Sure, you had doubts about Mushroom Cock like the article says, you even “hate[d] him passionately”. But you kept those doubts quiet until now. And it’s too late. You helped inflict this thing upon the world, and you helped him get there twice; now you’re worried about him sinking the ship and being dragged down with it. You don’t care about the damage you’ve helped inflict on millions of people, only about how you might be affected when those people hold you accountable. And fuck you accordingly, cunt.
