Former Tucker Carlson issued an apology Monday for his role in supporting Donald Trump, saying he regrets “misleading” viewers and expects to be “tormented” by the decision “for a long time.”
Speaking during an interview with his brother, Buckley Carlson, on The Tucker Carlson Show, the former Fox News host acknowledged both men’s involvement in Trump’s rise. “You wrote speeches for him, I campaigned for him… we’re implicated in this,” Carlson said. Buckley Carlson agreed with the assessment.
“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,” he said. He added that the moment calls for personal reflection, saying, “I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people, and it was not intentional.”
The apology comes amid an escalating public rift between Carlson and Trump. The president has repeatedly attacked Carlson in recent weeks on Truth Social, calling him “low IQ,” “stupid,” and “highly overrated,” while also targeting other former allies including Megyn Kelly, Alex Jones, and Candace Owens.
Carlson, who has grown increasingly critical of the administration, has taken issue with Trump’s handling of the Epstein files and the ongoing war with Iran. He previously described the conflict as “disgusting and evil” and suggested it was being waged on behalf of foreign interests. In response to Trump’s criticism, Carlson said he still feels sympathy for the president, describing him as being controlled by Israel.
The fallout has extended beyond rhetoric. Buckley Carlson recently stepped down from his role as deputy press secretary to Vice President JD Vance following Trump’s repeated attacks on his father.
Carlson’s remarks also drew backlash from within conservative circles. Scott Jennings criticized the apology during a television appearance, arguing that Carlson’s position ignores Trump’s long-standing stance on Iran. Jennings said it would be surprising if Carlson now regrets supporting Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris, and accused him of either misunderstanding or misrepresenting the president’s policies.
“I mean, is he now claiming he had no idea that Donald Trump held the position that he would never permit Iran to have nuclear weapons?” Jennings said. “If that’s what he’s saying today, he’s kind of a moron. I mean, I don’t know how else to put it, or he’s willfully misleading people.”
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Carlson is a megalomaniac who thinks he actually caused Trump’s victory.
What’s a bit encouraging is that even liberals staunch anti Trump loud voices in media rejected his “apology” seeing through him as a liar racist – greedy – all for clicks he is. They remind his interviewing H1tler fan N. Fuentes and Holocaust deniar D. Cooper.
I guess the “just asking questions” fascist is in free fall.
His mother is the one that needs to apologize
He has stated numerous times that he does not hate Jews but said he disagrees with the current Zionist leader.
You might be libeling him by calling him a Jew-hater. There is no need for juvenile attacks, especially when they seem false.
Please just report the news and leave out the nonsense.
Hakatan, there is no such thing as an anti-zionist who is not an antisemite, unless he is motivated only by the shesh shevu’os, which no goy is.
@Milhouse, you surely realize that what you wrote is completely indefensible from any logical perspective, and I am sure that you would not swear an oath on a Sefer Torah that what you wrote is even remotely true, even if for some odd reason you actually want to believe what you wrote.
Do you not realize how utterly idolatrous it is to claim that if any gentile is against a secular political movement, then he must really hate Jews?
There’s much, much more which shows that you cannot at all make the claim you do, even if it’s theoretically possible for anyone to claim a hate of one thing but really mean another. But ain kan makom liHaarich.
Besides, he specifically claimed that he doesn’t hate Israel but rather, as written before, “disagrees with the current Zionist leader”. If you have proof that he really does hate, then bring that. If you don’t, then don’t dangerously libel people by throwing around “ANTI-SEMITE” wrongly and without basis.
Be factual and logical. That’s the point.
Mr. Hakatan,
It is obvious that Anti Zionism is a form of Antisemitism, and anyone who claims otherwise is sadly mistaken. Just look at all the protests that go from Death to the IDF chants to F- the jews or criticizers of “the goverment” who start by calling Netanyahu out for “Human rights violations” and end up calling all jews colonizers and baby killers. Iv’e myself heard chants of “we support hamas here from so called “PEACEFUL PROTESTERS”, simply c riticizing the zionists I have even been victim to slurs such as being accused of genocide against the “poor, innocent palestinians”, even though there was nothing to connect me to Israel and they clearly were calling me out soley because I looked VISIBLY JEWISH. So to say, MR HAKATAN, that its not FACTUAL AND LOGICAL to say Tucker Carlson is a jew hater, is a barb to all the jews who know firsthand that what you said isn’t true.