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Douglas Murray: Deranged Tucker Carlson backstabs Trump

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 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 cheer-leader, Tucker Carlson.

There was a time when Carlson was fully Team Trump.

Carlson often appeared at Trump rallies as part of the warm-up act.

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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.

The president’s strong Middle East policy seems to have particularly deranged his one-time supporter.

While the president has advocated a strong defense of America’s regional allies, Carlson has spent 100% of his time trying to turn the MAGA base against Israel and in favor of Islamist regimes.

His podcast has become a remorseless roll call of Holocaust deniers, antisemites, Islamic extremists and World War II revisionists.

While attacking Trump, Carlson eagerly softball-interviews people who love both Hitler and Stalin.

Quite the achievement.

While accusing everyone else of being obsessed with Israel, Carlson has obsessed about nothing else.

While saying “We’re not allowed to talk about Jews,” he has talked........

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