Tucker Carlson Rips Into Former Fox Colleague Mark Levin For Criticizing Trump Official: ‘We’ve Reached Peak Crazy’

Tucker Carlson spoke to comedian turned foreign policy commentator Dave Smith on the most recent episode of his podcast. Carlson, who was fired by Fox News while the top-rated host on cable news, spoke to Smith about his recent debate with Douglas Murray on the Israel-Hamas war and got his take on media figures like Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh.

At one point, the conversation turned to Carlson’s former Fox News colleague Mark Levin and his recent jab at Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East.

“Mark Levin, who I also know, I mean, I’ve been in the right-wing world my whole life. I know everybody. I worked with Mark. I’ve always gotten along with Mark, always been nice to me. But yeah, he just accused Trump, the Trump administration of anti-Semitism for calling someone a neocon,” Carlson said, adding:

Well, what he did was he accused Steve Witkoff of anti-Semitism. Right. And I just want to say, I think Steve Witkoff is, if there’s anyone who is, you know, has the hand of God on him, it seems to me. I sort of overstated, but I feel that way. It’s Witkoff who’s like a thoroughly decent man and he was running around the world trying to bring peace. And also by the way, between nations. Who single-handedly—

“Saved 20 Jewish hostages. I mean, I don’t know if they were all Jewish. I think most of them were, I think almost all of them were, but I think they got 20 hostages released in the phase one of the ceasefire that he worked out. Then Israel violated the ceasefire, and so they didn’t get the other hostages back, although thankfully, the American was just released. But this guy, Witkoff, has actually done more to help those hostages—” Smith agreed as Carlson added:

So here’s what he said, I actually wrote this down because I was really bothered by it. This is Levin on Twitter, Mark Levin, who works at Fox, which basically seems to turn its programming over to advocating for a war with Iran. “Neocon is a pejorative for Jew, unbelievable.” And this is in response to Witkoff saying, quote, “The neocon element believes that war is the only way to solve things.” So you have Mark Levin calling Steve Witkoff an anti-Semite.

We’ve reached peak crazy, I mean, I think Witkoff is Jewish, right?

“Yes, again, but it’s, I don’t even know, but again, it shouldn’t matter. It shouldn’t really matter. It doesn’t matter. He’s American, and he’s on the side of peace, and so I’m for that guy. But you know, the crazy thing, so I also, at one point in the debate with Douglas Murray where I said something about the neoconservatives and he went, “Ah, the N-word,” you know making a play on the N-word or whatever,” Smith replied before arguing the neoconservatives used to self-identify as such before their reputation was tarnished.

“Now, a lot of times we will use the term when strictly speaking, this person may not have been a self-identified neoconservative. It’s just become a pejorative for someone trying to get us in a stupid war. But the neoconservatives themselves, the original group, this was their name for themselves,” Smith argued.

Later in the conversation, Carlson returned to Levin and said, “If Mark Levin is calling the Trump administration anti-Semitic, Steve Witkoff, we’re at the end of something and the beginning of something new.”

“I mean that’s so, I almost called Mark when I saw it because I really, I know him, but I really love Steve Witkoff and I think his decency, I don’t agree with him on everything at all, but his decency is just palpable, I mean it just comes through his concern for people. His reasonableness is just so obvious. And the effects of what he’s done have been so great. Great for America, great for the world. So I almost, I was so offended. And then I thought, I’m not gonna solve anything by calling Mark Levin and scolding him. Are we screaming at me? But I did think, like, he’s not stupid. If you’re saying, if you’re calling Steve Witkoff an anti-Semite on Twitter, like, you know you’re losing, right?” Carlson concluded.

Watch the clip above.