Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement on the murder of Charlie Kirk on Tuesday, accusing him of trying to “hijack Charlie’s memory” when Kirk “did not like Bibi Netanyahu” and “was appalled by what was happening in Gaza.”
“I was shocked and sickened by the reaction of– the ghoulish and really repulsive reaction of the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, to Charlie’s death,” said Carlson on The Tucker Carlson Show. “Basically made it all about him and all about his country, immediately trying to take the energy, the sadness, the grief that people felt over Charlie’s murder and redirect it towards support for whatever project he’s involved in.”
He continued, “I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything lower than his attempt to hijack Charlie’s memory and use it for his own political ends, particularly because what he said was completely untrue.”
Carlson then claimed that contrary to what others have alleged, Kirk actually did not like Netanyahu, who he considered a “destructive” force:
He loved the state of Israel, he loved going there. He did not like Bibi Netanyahu, and he said that to me many times and he said to people around him many times. He felt that Bibi Netanyahu was a very destructive force. He was appalled by what was happening in Gaza. He was above all resentful that he believed Netanyahu was using the United States to prosecute his wars for the benefit of his country and that it was shameful and embarrassing and bad for the United States, and he resented it. Didn’t hate Netanyahu, he wasn’t out there with a placard saying that, but he certainly expressed that to me and a lot of other people, and there’s no question that Bibi’s defenders on the internet will call me a liar or a kook, but that’s a fact, and enough text messages exist that I think it can probably be verified in pretty short order, not that it needs to be because that is true.
Carlson also claimed that Kirk experienced “a very intense attack” from his donors, as well as allies of Netanyahu, for platforming him at a recent Turning Point USA conference.
Donors “tormented Charlie Kirk until the day he died,” said Carlson, who added that just two days before Kirk was assassinated, “he lost a $2 million donation because he had publicly pledged to bring me to the next Turning Point conference in December.”
“I hated seeing how much he was suffering, the hassle he was getting from people,” said Carlson, who concluded, “There are many liars out there – Bibi Netanyahu number one among them, shamefully – who are trying to distort the truth. A truth that I know and can prove.”
Former Republican congressman Matt Gaetz vouched for Carlson’s claims, responding, “I have personal knowledge as to many of the claims Tucker is making here. They are 100 percent true.”
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