Fox News celebrity Tucker Carlson, in a piece derived from his Friday TV commentary, pointed to the screaming irony that President joe Biden is doing what Trump promised in Afghanistan, and is now being “Trumped” for it by his own military. Carlson emphasized the significance of the Reuters report of Aug. 31 based on the leak of Biden’s last phone call with then-President Ashraf Ghani on July 23.
“First, we know that this conversation took place because the Pentagon or State Department leaked it to Reuters. Why would they do that? Because whatever his faults, Biden did pull American troops from Afghanistan and they hate that. So they leaked an audiotape of the President speaking to another head of state. That’s illegal. You can’t conduct statecraft if people are leaking the content of your conversations. Yet they are doing that to get back at him because he broke the rules. He stopped permanent war. He did it ineptly, but he did it.”
Although Carlson doesn’t get anywhere near mentioning the key role of the British in fostering the attacks on Biden (as they did on Trump), the significance of his remarks stand out when compared to the unadulterated neo-con lunacy coming from the likes of his colleague, Sean “Howling” Hannity – and from Donald Trump himself, for that matter.
