Tucker Carlson Looked Her in the Eyes and Lied
5/4/202613 min
Will Saletan breaks down Tucker Carlson’s series of interviews with the New York Times and shows why his “apology tour” doesn’t hold up. From flat-out denials caught on tape to wild swings between moral outrage and shrugging off atrocities, the pattern is the story: in one moment he sounds reasonable, in the next he’s saying the exact opposite.
Read Lulu Garcia-Navarro's article on Tucker Carlson in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/magazine/tucker-carlson-interview-trump-iran.html
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Will Saletan· Host0:42
Hey, it's Will Saletan from The Bulwark. So this weekend, The New York Times posted a two-hour interview, it's actually a, a two-part interview, with Tucker Carlson. It's part of his apology tour. So he's apologizing for having supported Donald Trump because Trump promised not to get us into wars, and then he got us into a war, right? And there are moments in this interview when Carlson seems totally sincere. He seems like he's making a lot of sense. And what I wanna show you is why you can't trust those moments, and you can't trust him. So let's start with a part of the interview where Carlson talks about whether Trump