Conservative blogger and podcaster Tucker Carlson has apologized for “misleading people” by campaigning to vote for Donald Trump in the 2024 election.
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“You know, this is going to haunt us for a long time — I definitely am. And I want to say that I'm sorry for misleading people. It wasn't intentional — that's all I'm going to say,” Carlson said on “The Tucker Carlson Show.”
In 1999, Carlson called Trump “the most disgusting person on the planet” and was one of the first to call for him to be taken seriously. Later, during Trump's campaign for a second presidential term in 2024, Carlson actively supported him, including speaking at a campaign event five days before the vote. Now, the blogger has diverged from the president in his views on the war in the Middle East. Carlson called Trump's rhetoric on Iran “disgusting on every level” and said that he bears personal responsibility for Trump's return to power.
“You, me and everyone else who supported him — you wrote his speeches, I campaigned for him — we are definitely involved in this. In a small but real way, you, me and millions like us are the reason this is happening now,” he added, referring to Buckley Carlson's brother, who has written speeches for Trump in the past.
Trump recently wrote on social media that Carlson is “a low IQ person who is always easy to beat,” and also threatened to make a “list of good, bad, and somewhere in between” of the president's supporters.