Tucker Carlson confronted with recording of Trump Antichrist remark
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Updated · The Daily Beast · May 3
Tucker Carlson confronted with recording of Trump Antichrist remark
6 articles · Updated · The Daily Beast · May 3
In a nearly two-hour New York Times podcast interview, host Lulu Garcia-Navarro played video of Carlson saying, “Could this be the Antichrist?” after he denied ever saying it.
Carlson then apologised if the clip existed, but said the remark did not reflect his precise view, while describing Trump’s influence as “spellbinding” and “literally” like a spell.
He said his break with Trump came over US strikes on Iran, regretted earlier support, and mixed moral criticism with claims Trump was constrained by geopolitical pressures and harmed allies around him.
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