Mark Levin lashed out after a report accused him of using fake news to push President Donald Trump into allowing Israel to strike Iran.
Levin called a Politico report from Rachel Bade and Felicia Schwartz “propaganda” in a Tuesday X post. The report referenced him as one of a number of voices in the MAGA world pushing for a more aggressive approach with Iran.
“Centcom chief contradicts Tulsi Gabbard and Rachel Bade’s Politico propaganda regurgitating the radical isolationist talking points,” Levin posted.
The message referred to the report suggesting Levin fed Trump fake news during a recent meeting.
According to Politico, Levin told Trump during a recent lunch meeting that Iran is “days away from building a nuclear weapon, an argument Trump’s own intelligence team has told the president is not accurate, according to an intelligence official as well as another Trump ally familiar with the matter.”
The report suggested Levin pushed Trump to allow Israel’s government to strike Iran nuclear sites, something the president has reportedly argued against multiple times behind the scenes as
In his X post, Levin linked to a report on CENTCOM Commander General Michael Kurilla discussing the threat of Iran.
“He testified that Iran can produce weapons-grade nuclear material in one week. This is consistent with every major Intel analysis around the world,” Levin wrote.
Politico referenced a somewhat similar point in their own report, saying US intelligence officials have “pegged Iran’s so-called breakout time — the amount of time it needs to produce enough weapons grade material for a nuclear weapon — at one to two weeks.”
They add, however, that “if Iran were to pursue the bomb, experts and diplomats disagree how long it would take to weaponize it, ranging from a few months to over a year.”
Levin’s meeting with Trump came amidst growing in-fighting on how to handle Iran and their enrichment programs. Some have fallen more in Levin’s camp while others, like Levin’s former colleague Tucker Carlson, are pushing for diplomacy and negotiation. Israel has a reported growing desire to strike Iran as funding for terror groups like Hamas can often be tied back to the country. The United Nations’ nuclear energy watchdog, IAEA, also recently reported that Iran has increased its nuclear stockpile of “near-bomb uranium” for the last three months.
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“Why is Mark Levin once again hyperventilating about weapons of mass destruction? To distract you from the real goal, which is regime change — young Americans heading back to the Middle East to topple yet another government,” Carlson wrote about Levin’s meeting just hours after it happened.
The pair have been trading insults, with Levin recently calling Carlson a “loathsome ass.”
“Levin and Murdoch are all over Trump all the time — I actually think they hurt their case because I know Trump,” a Trump confidant told Politico. “Once he’s kind of made his mind up, you can come at it later from a different angle, but you keep pressing, he digs in.”