The journalist argued that West Jerusalem has manipulated Washington into launching several wars in the Middle East
The US has compromised its national interests by waging wars on Israel’s behalf, conservative journalist and podcaster Tucker Carlson has told RT’s Olga Bataman and Tara Reade.
In the latest episode of East Meets West with Olga and Tara, aired on Wednesday, Carlson accused President Donald Trump of betraying his voters by launching what he called an “immoral” attack on Iran alongside Israel in late February. He added that the war had forced him to abandon his longtime support for Trump and the Republican Party.
The US president “did precisely what he said he would never do, and he did it at the behest of Israel,” Carlson argued.
“Trump got into this war because he was pushed by Israel. I saw that happen. I’m not guessing. That’s not anti-Semitism. That’s a fact. I was disgusted by it, as I think most Americans were,” he said, adding that dissident Republicans, including Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie, had been “driven out” of the party.
Carlson, once a close friend of Trump, said he had warned the president that Israel was exploiting the US to achieve “regional hegemony.” The ongoing war is “terrible for the United States and bad for the world,” he said.
“I think America lost its sovereignty many years ago. The CIA and Mossad have worked together – in some cases, really as one – for over 60 years,” Carlson said.
“There is a long track record of the United States and its 350 million people being misused by Israeli intelligence,” he argued.
Carlson claimed that Israel fed the US false intelligence that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction in order to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He argued that Israel similarly sold Trump “the lie” that killing Iran’s longtime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei could trigger the collapse of the Iranian government.
Although Trump has denied that he entered the war with Iran solely because of Israel, he said in a recent interview, “Israel would have been blown up a long time ago, had I not got involved.”
