Tucker Carlson Accuses Republican Senator of Sabotaging Release of ‘JFK Files’

Tucker Carlson has dropped a political grenade, accusing Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) of having actively worked to prevent a key intelligence hire — allegedly to stop the full release of long-classified JFK assassination files.

Speaking with Chris Cuomo, Carlson alleged Monday night that when President Donald Trump’s administration was nominating jobs in January, a senator on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) intervened with one intelligence community pick, claiming that the hire would have been “certain to push for the release of the JFK files.”

“In January, there was a scramble over who’s gonna get what jobs in the new administration,” Carlson recounted.

He continued: “At one point there was someone who was being discussed for a job in the intel world, and a member of the SSCI… went to the people making the decision and said, ‘You cannot hire this person because this person will be certain to push for the release of the JFK files.'”

“You have to ask yourself, ‘What is that?'” Carlson added. “If you’re telling me that six weeks ago, a member of the United States Senate was trying to keep someone out of a job in order to keep these files secret, that is to protect the CIA, I don’t believe that for a second.”

Pressed by Cuomo to name the senator in question, Carlson outed the lawmaker.

“Tom Cotton of Arkansas did that,” he said.

Cuomo pushed back and challenged Carlson on why he hadn’t confirmed Cotton’s role directly.

“You are uniquely qualified to get this answer because one of us can call the president of the United States right now and ask him, and the other one is me,” Cuomo asked. “So why don’t you know?”

Carlson said he didn’t believe that Cotton would agree to be interviewed by him.

The accusation comes as the push for promised government transparency from MAGA continues — particularly concerning the JFK assassination and Jeffrey Epstein’s files.

PresidentTrump, at the start of his second term, ordered officials to present him with a plan for releasing the JFK documents within 15 days of his Jan. 23 request.

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