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Commentary By Douglas Murray

Deranged Tucker Carlson Backstabs Trump

Culture Culture & Society, Political Philosophy

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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.

Continue reading the entire piece here at the New York Post

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Douglas Murray is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor of City Journal.