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What Does Tucker Carlson Really Believe? I Went to Maine to Find Out.

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Mark Levin and Laura Loomer opposed JD Vance from the start of his vice presidency.

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Tucker Carlson
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Hillary Clinton killed Muammar Qaddafi in Libya in 2011.

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Tucker Carlson
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Israel has no natural resources.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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The Antichrist is named in the Book of Revelation.

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Hundreds of people have been arrested in Great Britain for criticizing Israel.

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Tucker Carlson
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Joe Kent is head of the National Counterterrorism Center.

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Ted Cruz has called for the murder of innocents.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Tucker Carlson's interview with Nick Fuentes had 25 million views.

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Tucker Carlson
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About 500 members of Congress take money from AIPAC.

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Tucker Carlson
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COVID-19 vaccines are not safe and effective.

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The Persian Gulf region supplies about one-fifth of the world's energy.

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Tucker Carlson
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Marco Rubio has said Iran is the greatest threat facing the United States.

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Tucker Carlson
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Israel has about 9 million people.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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The Iran war was the first U.S.-Israel joint military operation against a Muslim country.

Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
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Donald Trump shared an image depicting himself as Jesus.

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Tucker Carlson
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Joe Kent said the FBI barred him from investigating Charlie Kirk's murder.

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Tucker Carlson
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Most newly created U.S. jobs in the past five years have gone to foreign-born workers.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Tucker Carlson called Iraqis “semiliterate primitive monkeys” in 2018.

Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
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Israel killed civilians in Lebanon within hours of Trump's ceasefire announcement.

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Tucker Carlson
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Forty governments have adopted the IHRA antisemitism definition.

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Tucker Carlson
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Human race is a biological reality rather than a social construct.

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Tucker Carlson
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Capital income is taxed at about half the rate of labor income in the United States.

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Tucker Carlson
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Venezuela was a prosperous, first-world-like country during Tucker Carlson's childhood.

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Tucker Carlson
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Donald Trump started the Iran war on February 28 during his second term.

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Tucker Carlson
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Donald Trump announced Iran-war ceasefire talks three or four weeks into the war.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Charlie Kirk founded Turning Point USA.

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Tucker Carlson
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U.S. capital gains taxes are about half of ordinary income taxes.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Donald Trump threatened Iran's civilian infrastructure in a profane Truth Social post on Easter Sunday 2025.

Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
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Some Trump White House figures preferred Marco Rubio over J.D. Vance for vice president.

Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
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The United States was in a war with Iran during the interview.

Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
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No one got punished for banks' role in the global financial crisis.

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Tucker Carlson
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The American middle class was no longer the majority after 2015.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Donald Trump attacked Iran alongside Israel.

Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
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Joe Kent resigned as head of the National Counterterrorism Center shortly after the Iran war began.

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Tucker Carlson
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Iran demanded Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon as a condition for Iran-war ceasefire talks.

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Tucker Carlson
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The United States has about 350 million people.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Tucker Carlson said he was sorry for misleading people about helping elect Donald Trump.

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Tucker Carlson
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Hundreds of Americans have been wounded and some killed in a regime-change war in Iran.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Tucker Carlson's texts became public through Dominion's lawsuit against Fox News in 2021.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Tucker Carlson texted 'there really isn't an upside to Trump' and 'I hate him passionately.'

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Tucker Carlson
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Christianity and Islam teach that every person has a soul.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Many U.S. evangelicals support Israel because they believe Israel's creation fulfilled biblical prophecy.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Christians who support Israel for biblical-prophecy reasons are called Christian Zionists.

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Tucker Carlson
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The Israeli government practices collective punishment.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was written in the early twentieth century.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion influenced Nazi antisemitism.

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Tucker Carlson
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Two-thirds of IHRA's antisemitism examples involve criticism of Israel.

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Tucker Carlson
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Charlie Kirk was murdered by a lone gunman on September 10, 2025.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Erica Kirk condemned theories linking Israel to Charlie Kirk's death.

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Tucker Carlson
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No senior U.S. bank executives were jailed for the 2008 financial crisis.

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Tucker Carlson
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New York Times use of “racism” and “white supremacy” rose sharply after Occupy Wall Street.

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Tucker Carlson
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Hugo Chávez led a left-wing populist takeover in Venezuela.

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Tucker Carlson
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Donald Trump launched a war with Iran after saying he would not.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Tucker Carlson Tonight premiered shortly after the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Fox News removed Tucker Carlson from its lineup in 2023.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Tucker Carlson launched his own media network after leaving Fox News.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Donald Trump won a second presidential term.

Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
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Iran has the longest Persian Gulf coastline among littoral states.

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Tucker Carlson
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Marco Rubio served as both U.S. secretary of state and national security adviser.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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A U.S.-backed operation removed Nicolás Maduro from office in Venezuela.

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Tucker Carlson
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Iran shares a border with Iraq.

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Tucker Carlson
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Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982.

Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
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Israel used explosive pagers against Hezbollah in Lebanon after October 7, 2023.

Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
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Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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The United States killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in 2020.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Tucker Carlson said after Soleimani's killing, 'You can't kill them all. It's not our job.'

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Donald Trump did not place his hand on a Bible during his 2025 presidential swearing-in.

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Tucker Carlson
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The New Testament contains references to the Antichrist outside the Book of Revelation.

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Tucker Carlson
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The Strait of Hormuz is essential to global commodity flows.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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U.S. Christian evangelicals are a major part of Donald Trump's political coalition.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Tucker Carlson said he dislikes Christian Zionists more than anybody.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Tucker Carlson said Christian Zionists have a brain virus.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Mike Huckabee is the U.S. ambassador to Israel.

Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
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Israel is a sovereign state with a seat at the United Nations.

Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
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Fewer than 10 million Jews live in the United States.

Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
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The United States has tens of millions of evangelical Christians.

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Tucker Carlson
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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a czarist forgery.

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Tucker Carlson
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The IHRA antisemitism definition includes 11 examples of antisemitism.

Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
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Donald Trump announced his first presidential campaign in 2015.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Israel denied allegations that it was linked to Charlie Kirk's death.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Nick Fuentes has called Hitler “fucking cool.”

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Tucker Carlson
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Baby boomers are commonly defined as people born between 1946 and 1964.

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Tucker Carlson
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A health insurance executive was murdered in New York in 2024.

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Mike Huckabee has been a public figure for over 30 years.

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Randy Fine is a representative from Florida.

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Tucker Carlson
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Ted Cruz is a sitting U.S. senator.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Nick Fuentes is a white nationalist who has denied the Holocaust.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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The Holocaust's precursors included dehumanizing language against Jews before mass gassings.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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The U.S. vice president can resign from office.

Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
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J.D. Vance became vice president instead of Marco Rubio.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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JD Vance is fronting Trump administration negotiations with Iran.

Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
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Donald Trump turns 80 in June 2026.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Tucker Carlson's son left a job working for Vice President JD Vance.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Nick Fuentes called JD Vance a race traitor over Vance's marriage to Indian American Usha Vance.

Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
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Occupy Wall Street arose after the global financial crisis.

Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
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The U.S. Congress has 535 voting members.

Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
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JD Vance is married to an Indian woman.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Donald Trump Jr. supported Tucker Carlson’s new media venture after Carlson left Fox News.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Donald Trump posted Truth Social messages criticizing Tucker Carlson.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Tucker Carlson’s anti-Trump texts were disclosed in the Fox News-Dominion legal fight.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Tucker Carlson texted that Trump could easily destroy Fox if Fox played it wrong.

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Tucker Carlson
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The Trump administration dismantled USAID.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Graham Platner is seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Maine.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Tucker Carlson said immigrants make the United States poorer, dirtier, and more divided.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Tucker Carlson warned that immigrants would replace “legacy Americans.”

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Tucker Carlson called Iraqis “semiliterate primitive monkeys” in 2008.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Lulu Garcia-Navarro
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Tucker Carlson supported the Iraq War and Donald Trump's 2016 election.

Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
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Hillary Clinton laughed about Muammar Qaddafi's death.

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Tucker Carlson
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Donald Trump said the Iraq War was a mistake during the 2016 campaign.

Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson
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Tucker Carlson changed his mind about supporting the Iraq War.

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