Popular conservative commentator Tucker Carlson has apologized for supporting President Donald Trump during the 2024 election cycle.
In a recent episode of “The Tucker Carlson Show,” rated bySpotifyas the country’s 8th most popular podcast, Carlson said that he will feel “tormented” by what he now regards as his own regrettable role in helping Trump win the presidency.
“I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people,”Carlsonsaid in a clip posted to the social media platform X. “It was not intentional.”
The former Fox News host made those comments during a conversation with his brother, Buckley Carlson.
“You and I and everyone else who supported him — you wrote speeches for him; I campaigned for him — we’re implicated in this for sure,” the host said at the beginning of the clip. “It’s not enough to say, ‘I changed my mind,’ or like, ‘Oh, this is bad. I’m out.’ 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.”
“So,” the host continued, “I do think it’s like a moment to wrestle with our own consciences. We’ll be tormented by it for a long time. I will be. And I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people. It was not intentional. That’s all I’ll say.”
For the remainder of the clip, the Carlson brothers discussed whether or not Trump always intended to, in their words, betray his voters.
“Looking back after the last year and a half, it seems like it kind of was,” Buckley Carlson said after his brother asked him if Trump’s betrayal, as they see it, was “always the plan.”
Buckley, while making it clear that he did not support former Vice PresidentKamala Harris, then suggested that the campaign donations Trump received from the Israeli-American multi-billionaire Miriam Adelson helped dictate the president’s aggressively pro-Israel policy in the Middle East, including the ongoing Iran war.
Tucker, however, sounded skeptical about the campaign donations as an explanation for Trump’s policies.
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