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submitted 5 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Right-wing media personality has criticized president’s war with Iran as ‘absolutely disgusting and evil’

Right-wing media commentator Tucker Carlson claims Donald Trump’s Department of Justice could be building a criminal case against him.

In a clip shared Saturday evening on X, Carlson said the CIA is “preparing some kind of criminal referral” against him to the Justice Department “on the basis of a supposed crime.” The former Fox News host claimed investigators had read his text messages and that the supposed probe relates to “talking to people in Iran before the war.”

“The crime under consideration, apparently, would be the foreign agent act or something like that, acting as an agent of a foreign power,” he said.

Carlson may be referring to the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which requires that “certain agents of foreign principals who are engaged in political activities or other activities specified under the statute” make regular disclosures about their work, according to the Justice Department.

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[-] Fusselwurm@feddit.org 171 points 5 months ago

Reminder that fascism is dangerous for everyone, including fascists.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 75 points 5 months ago

Sometimes the hydra eats one of its own heads, as a treat.

[-] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago

Which will just grow back anyway

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Niemoller's famous poem ("first they came for…") was about his experience of internal purges in the nazi party, not about their purges of people outside the party

[-] homes@piefed.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
[-] who@feddit.org 105 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Isn't Tucker Carlson one of the prominent media personalities that spent years influencing voters to support the political faction that put Trump in power?

Does he expect sympathy now?

[-] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 79 points 5 months ago

He never though the leopards would eat his face

[-] noride@lemmy.zip 47 points 5 months ago

I actually think he thought he was a leopard.

[-] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 36 points 5 months ago

They all do

They aspire to be bullies

[-] evenglow@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

They were bullies when they were children. They just never grew out of that phase.

[-] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

They definitely were, but I also think they realised that nobody likes them and they want to flex some muscle as revenge against the world

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 18 points 5 months ago

Funny thing about that, leopards have faces too.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

He thought it was fantastic to troll liberals for the lulz and the $$$.

[-] Nusm@peachpie.theatl.social 65 points 5 months ago
[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 59 points 5 months ago

Soooo Tucker, this "Democrat" silencing of critics that you've harped about for years and years... it's actually Republicans that do it, way worse and on super false pretenses. Enjoy your reward for being a forever constipated-looking Republican talking head.

[-] AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago

........and?

I hope the leopard takes a huge, nationally televised bite out of Tucker's face.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

I am Jack's complete lack of fucks.

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 18 points 5 months ago

"But I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face!"

[-] baka 16 points 5 months ago

Ugh, I hate lying white men but Tucker has been anti-israel and we need that shit. We need to convert more people to that state of mind..

[-] aaa999@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

obviously let them fight, but

tucker had actual nazi nick fuentes on his show so he is anti-something related to israel for sure

[-] uienia@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

You guys really need to distinguish between being anti-Israel for reasons of their genocidal behaviour or for nazi reasons. The nazi anti-Israel types are not your friends, and they don't provide anything constructive to anybody.

[-] prole 4 points 5 months ago
[-] baka 1 points 5 months ago

Sorry but my govt is occupied by a foreign nation and they're too brainwashed to see it as anything but that.. it's disturbing

[-] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 5 months ago

Tucker's fall from grace has been phenomenal.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago

You fuck one Russian pumpernickel bagel and the world never forgives you.

[-] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

Is the Justice Department taking off his belt?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHrjf2VjpuA

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 months ago

So he’s telling everyone that the politically motivated Justice Department has been motivated to do its job?

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 months ago

Let them eat each other.

[-] EarlTurlet@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

oh no! Anyway...

[-] MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 9 points 5 months ago

No problem.

Use your considerable wealth and elevated profile to report the state of reality factually, until the regime collapses, or they make you a folk hero.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Honestly I expected them to come for Shapiro first

[-] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 6 points 5 months ago

Shapiro backs Israel and Tucker doesn't. Trump is heavily aligned with Israel to the point that the war with Iran is basically because of them. I think Shapiro is safe so long as Israel sees him as useful.

Not that it should need to be said, but I'm not supporting an antisemitic conspiracy about a new world order or anything. It's just that Trump and his people are dumb and easy to manipulate and several countries, including Israel, are taking advantage of that. That's just normal country geopoliticing, not related to any religion or ethnicity.

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

There's a healthy amount of evidence that Epstein was at least partially backed by Israel.

[-] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago

I'm not trying to make a case that Israel is somehow the good guy or anything, just that my statement is not related to the fact it's a Jewish state. Israel is an apartheid state committing genocide. I was just making clear have no issue with Jewish people in general. Lots of Zionists on Lemmy so I was making that clear before it got derailed by bad faith actors. I am not following the Epstein thing that closely because it disgusts me to the point it makes me physically ill, so I can't chime in about it at all other than to say it's disgusting beyond reason.

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Oh no, I wasn't insinuating you were saying that. I was saying Israel likely has very clear evidence on Trump's time with Epstein, and they're saying "look you're joining us on this or we dump everything."

[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Night of the Long fucking Knives.

[-] lemmylump@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Shhhyeah and monkeys might fly out of my butt.

[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 5 months ago

🤡-on-🤡 violence 🖕😈🖕

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Carlson missed his chance to take his Fox News derived fortune and disappear from the lime light so he could spend his day getting high of snorting orphan blood or whatever it is these assholes do. Instead he got greedy and doubled down on the fascism. Now he is getting eaten by a monster he helped create.

[-] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 10 points 5 months ago

He was born rich. He did the society destroying propoganda for the love of the game.

[-] TheMinister@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago
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