Tucker Carlson: Trump ‘Bowed’ to US Intel Community Working to ‘Destroy’ Democracy
On Tuesday, Tucker Carlson kicked off his show by slamming President Donald Trump‘s remarks claiming that he misspoke at the Helsinki summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Earlier in the day, Trump offered a clarification, saying that he meant to say word “would” instead of wouldn’t, which is a complete reversal from the press conference in which he seemed to take Putin’s word about Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 election over the US intel community.
Carlson began by accusing the media and the foreign policy establishment, both he referred to as “political parties,” of coming together in attacking the president.
“Well as the rage storm swirled, the president bowed to the inevitable, genuflecting before U.S. intelligence agencies whose judgment must never be questioned and recited the now obligatory loyalty to the spy bureaucrats now in charge of our country,” Carlson said.
He called his clarification a “hostage tape” went after the folks who made the president “buckle.”
“The people yelling the loudest about how the Russians are our greatest enemy and Trump is their puppet happen to be the very same people who have been mismanaging our foreign policy for the past two decades,” Carlson said. “The people who invaded Iraq and wouldn’t admit it was a mistake, the people who killed Muammar Gaddafi for no obvious reason and prolonged the horrible Syrian civil war and then threw open the borders in Europe… These are people who’ve made America weaker and poor and sadder. The group whose failures got Trump elected in the first place.”
The Fox News host went on to say that these people should be “unemployed” but instead are “hosting cable news shows” and are “holding high positions of influence at the State Department” and how they’re still “in charge of our national conversation.”
“Russia is not a close friend of the United States, but the question is why should we consider them a mortal enemy?” Carlson continued. “Of course Russia spies on us, so do a lot of countries, some of them far more effectively than Russia. The Russia attempt to meddle in our election was comically amateurish, badly targeted Facebook ads almost nobody saw. Compare that effort to the deep penetration of American industry and the defense sector by the communist government of China. Or compare it to the remarkable sway that the Sunni-Gulf states have over our political process or the fact that Latin American countries are changing elections outcomes here by forcing demographic change on this country at a rate that American voters consistently say they don’t want.”
“In some ways this whole story is about Donald Trump at what he said and what he does,” he concluded. “But on a deeper level it has nothing to do with Donald Trump. This is about democracy, whether or not voters rule their country. It turns out the very people telling you they are saving our democracy are working overtime to destroy it and are scolding you as they do.”
Watch the clip above, via Fox News.
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