Ex-Israeli PM Torches Tucker Carlson for ‘Vicious’ Epstein-Mossad ‘Slander’

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Israel’s former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett rebuked claims that convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein worked for the Mossad, his country’s famed intelligence agency, calling the allegation “categorically and totally false” and accusing MAGA personality Tucker Carlson of spreading conspiracy theories on Monday.

The denial comes after Carlson suggested, at aTurning Point USA conference over the weekend, that Epstein may have been involved in a blackmail operation on behalf of Israeli intelligence.

“Were you working on behalf of Mossad? Were you running a blackmail operation on behalf of a foreign government?” Carlson asked rhetorically on Friday, adding: “By the way, every single person in Washington, D.C. thinks that.”

Carlson questioned the origins of Epstein’s wealth and connections: “How does a guy go from being a math teacher at the Dalton School in the late 70s with no college degree to having multiple airplanes, a private island, and the largest residential house in Manhattan?”

But Bennett, who served as Israeli Prime Minister from 2021 to 2022, said on Monday that the idea was “totally false” and that the Mossad “reported directly to” him during his term. Namedropping Carlson, he condemned the “vicious wave of slander and lies” targeting Israel.

“This accusation is a lie being peddled by prominent online personalities such as Tucker Carlson pretending they know things they don’t,” he continued. “They just make things up, say it with confidence and these lies stick, because it’s Israel.”

Just an hour later Carlson clapped back, accusing Bennett of “issuing threats on social media” while daring him to agree to an interview about “Epstein’s ties to the Israeli government.”

The controversy comes as President Donald Trump’s administration faces renewed pressure from sections of his MAGA base to disclose more information about Epstein’s alleged ties to high-profile figures and an elusive blackmail “client list” the DOJ says does not exist.