Trump posted an article that says Tucker stabbed Trump in the back

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In politics, it is often the people who you think have your back who end up stabbing you there.

Nobody knows that better than Donald Trump, who has been stabbed in the back more times than Julius Caesar — yet has still survived.

This week, part of the noisy right-wing online podcast-sphere again turned on the president.

Leading the virtual charge, again, was Trump’s one-time cheerleader, Tucker Carlson.

There was a time when Carlson was fully Team Trump.

Carlson often appeared at Trump rallies as part of the warmup act.

But in the past year, he has tried to lead the MAGA base away from Trump and down a very dark path.

Fortunately, the Trump base hasn’t followed him there.

The president’s strong Middle East policy seems to have particularly deranged his one-time supporter.

While the president has advocated a strong defense of America’s regional allies, Carlson has spent 100% of his time trying to turn the MAGA base against Israel and in favor of Islamist regimes.

His podcast has become a remorseless roll call of Holocaust deniers, antisemites, Islamic extremists and World War II revisionists.

While attacking Trump, Carlson eagerly softball-interviews people who love both Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.

Quite an achievement.

Undermining

While accusing everyone else of being obsessed with Israel, Carlson has obsessed about nothing else.

While saying “We’re not allowed to talk about Jews,” he has talked about nothing but Jews.

This obsession has culminated in a total derangement over the president’s Iran policy.

Carlson and other people in the right-wing podcast-sphere pretend to be confused by the president acting to stop the mullahs from getting an atomic bomb.

At one and the same time, they say Iran was never seeking nuclear weapons. And that Iran has the right to nuclear weapons.

They pretend the Iranians were nowhere near having a nuclear weapon. But that it would be understandable if they were.

This culminated in Carlson calling Trump’s actions “evil.”

And suggesting he has once again been manipulated by, well — guess who?

From being Trump cheerleaders, Carlson & co. are trying to do everything they can to destroy the president.

This week, Joe Kent, head of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned — supposedly over the president’s Iran policy.

Since his resignation, the FBI has opened a leak investigation suggesting Kent’s own turn on the president might not be everything it first appears.

But with whom did Kent appear within 24 hours of resigning?

Why, with Tucker Carlson, of course.

Where he spread a range of crazed conspiracies — all of which just happen to align with Carlson’s own prejudices.

Now it seems there is almost nothing Trump does that these one-time supporters will not try to undermine.

This week, sitting in the Oval Office, Trump made reference to the bust of Winston Churchill.

A bust that Trump returned to the White House in his first term.

This week, Trump referred to Britain’s wartime prime minister as “the late, great Winston Churchill.”

A suitable reference to the man who for a time stood alone against Hitler as the Nazi tyrant sought to overrun Britain and all of Europe.

But for the online right, Churchill has become an enemy.

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