Tucker Carlson's regret in helping Donald Trump win the presidency has reached a new level.
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Bar the occasional tiff, the former Fox News host has been a keen ally of Trump's over the years, joining him on the 2024 campaign trail. At that year's RNC, he called Trump's survival of an assassination attempt "divine intervention" in a speech viewed 1.7 million times, adding, "Donald Trump's public life has been to remind us of one fact, which is a leader's duty is to his people, to his country, and no other. that's the point... Democracy."
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However, in recent weeks, Carlson has increasingly criticized the president on a number of topics, from Trump's actions in Venezuela and Iran to his falling out with the pope. Carlson's words have drawn the ire of Trump, who said he had a "Low IQ" and ranted, "Not Hand Flailing Fools like Tucker Carlson, who couldn’t even finish College, he was a broken man when he got fired from Fox, and he’s never been the same — Perhaps he should see a good psychiatrist!"
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In a new YouTube video, Carlson spoke with his brother, Buckley, who voted for Trump three times and wrote speeches for him. In the lengthy interview, both expressed their criticisms of the president, culminating with Tucker saying, "You and I and everyone else who supported him — you wrote speeches for him, I campaigned for him — I mean, we’re implicated in this for sure."
"It's not enough to say, 'Well, I changed my mind.' Or like, 'Oh, this is bad. I'm out.' It's like, in very small ways, but in real ways, you and me and millions of people like us are the reason this is happening right now," he continued.
"I do think it's like a moment to wrestle with our own consciences. We'll be tormented by it for a long time. I want to say, I'm sorry for misleading people. It was not intentional," he added.