Former Fox News guy Tucker Carlson admitted he’s sorry for supporting Donald Trump in the past and apologized “for misleading people.” Carlson’s rejection of Trump comes after years of public support for the Republican. Carlson was even one of the main voices supporting allegations about electoral fraud when Trump lost the presidency to Joe Biden.
“You know, this will torment us for a long time – at least to me”, he said on Monday, na conversation on your podcast, The Tucker Carlson Show, with his brother, Buckley Carlson.
“And I want to apologize for misleading people. It wasn’t intentional, that’s all I have to say,” added the conservative, quoted by .
From critic to supporter, from supporter to critic
This isn’t the first time Tucker Carlson has been known to change his opinion about Donald Trump. Before, in 1999, I said that Trump was the “most disgusting person on the planet”.
In the ‘race’ for the Oval Office in 2024, When the Republican ran again for president, the commentator supported him throughout the election campaign and even spoke at a Trump event five days before the decisive night.
In 2016, he had already cast the ‘dice’ on Trump, warning that the Republican should be taken more seriously.
However, since the beginning of Tucker Carlson tem disagreed with Donald Trump’s positions. The former supporter classified it as “vile on all levels” the US leader’s language about Iran.
“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, without a doubt,” Carlson said, taking responsibility for Trump’s return to the White House.
“In very modest but real ways, you and I and millions of people like us We are the reason this is happening right now“, said the former presenter to his brother.
Despite being on board with Trump’s campaign in 2024, a year earlier, during the discovery phase of the lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News, it was revealed that the former presenter had, through private messages, belittled Trump’s first term, considering it “a disaster”.
Trump had already ‘attacked’ Carlson
Displeasure is not only felt on one side. In early April, Donald Trump directed several criticisms at Tucker Carlson and other figures associated with the MAGA movement (“Make America Great Again”, in English), including Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, Alex Jones.
In a social media post Trump said Carlson was “a person with low IQ – always easy to defeat and highly overvalued.”
“Carlson, who couldn’t even finish college, was devastated when he was fired from Fox and was never the same again — perhaps he should see a good psychiatrist,” the President further wrote.
