"Tucker Carlson Apologized To Trump For Insulting Kim Jong-Un
The Washington Post’s Philip Bump has an excellent analysis of the full interview. It includes a diagram showing just how much Trump babbled on and how little Carlson questioned, much less challenged.
Not exactly speaking truth to power. But, of course, that isn’t what Carlson does.
He marveled at one point that the interview was supposed to be about Trump’s arrest but that they “wound up talking mostly about foreign policy.” That’s because what little steering Carlson did pushed Trump in that direction, asking him, for example, about Russia on multiple occasions.
This is what Carlson uses his show for of late: to reshape Republican orthodoxy on foreign policy to be less friendly to Ukraine. It’s an offshoot of his general efforts to reframe American politics broadly to better reflect his own right-wing worldview.
Bump also notes that “perhaps the most telling part” of the charade was this:
“For a man who is caricatured as an extremist,” Carlson said of Trump, “we think you’ll find what he has to say moderate, sensible and wise.”
Carlson likes to posture as a straight shooter who tells it like it is. In reality, as I have repeatedly said, he's a political charlatan. This "interview" is the most blatant proof yet."
