NEW: Tucker Carlson warns that Fox News ‘liars’ influencing Trump could END his presidency over nuclear war – Daily Mail
Journalist Tucker Carlson traveled to Washington, DC on Monday, publicly urging the president away from an escalating war in the Middle East and warning him it could lead to the ‘end’ of his presidency.
Carlson said he was in town for a series of interviews and appeared on the War Room with Steve Bannon show to discuss the ongoing debate about the war in Iran and the role that the United States should play in the conflict.
He revealed that he ‘loved’ President Trump and wanted him to be successful, but warned that the Israeli military operations against Iran threatened to get the United States further mired into the conflict, the Daily Mail reported.
‘A full-scale war with Iran,’ he argued, ‘would end, I believe, Trump’s presidency, effectively end it, so that’s why I’m saying this.’
Carlson said if he could speak to Trump about the conflict, he would urge him to act in America’s interests and bring peace to the region.
‘I would say to him, you’re the only person who can bring peace. You should continue to try and do that, it’s difficult, it takes a long time but your timetable is the only timetable that matters, don’t get bum rushed,’ he said.
Carlson addressed attacks from Fox News host and radio legend Mark Levin and other pro-Israel figures in the United States who have escalated attacks against him for criticizing Israel’s military strikes on Iran.
‘It’s crazy how people that are against killing are the criminals all of a sudden,’ he said.
Carlson also addressed the Fox News platform, challenging that they were committed to the vision of escalating military interventionism in the Middle East.
Trump responded to Carlson and others who warned that supporting Israel’s war in Iran was against his campaign promise to act on an ‘American First’ agenda.
Trump argued that military action to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program was essential to peace.
‘For those people who say they want peace, you can’t have peace if Iran has a nuclear weapon. So for all of those wonderful people who don’t want to do anything about Iran having a nuclear weapon – that’s not peace.’
