“I don’t care what she said,” US President says of his Director of National Intelligence’s warnings against attacking Iran, in the latest rift between Team Trump and isolationists in his party.
Tucker Carlson, the right-wing media commentator who warned US President Donald Trump in his first term against a US strike on Iran, last week called Trump’s fears of Tehran building a nuclear bomb overblown. He insisted, and insists, that neither Iran nor Ukraine warrants US military resources.
At that time, Carlson described a divide in Trump’s orbit between “those who casually encourage violence, and those who seek to prevent it – between warmongers and peacemakers.” On Wednesday, the conservative commentator took a swipe at another hawkish Republican, humiliating Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on his program for not knowing basic facts about Iran even as he pushes for US attacks on Tehran.