EDITOR’S NOTE (nICK STAMATAKIS). In an NPR interview, Tucker Carlson recounted a private Oval Office conversation with President Trump shortly before the war in Iran. Carlson said he warned Trump that war could advance Israel’s regional objectives while damaging America’s own position in the Middle East. According to Carlson, Trump replied: “In the end, we all die anyway. So it doesn’t matter.”
If Carlson’s account is accurate, the remark is deeply troubling. But it also raises a larger question that Americans deserve answered: Who is shaping U.S. policy toward Iran—and whose interests are being served?
Israel has every right to pursue what its government considers its national interests. The United States has an equally fundamental obligation to pursue its own.
So why should Washington take strategic direction from the Israeli government when American troops, American bases, American resources and American lives bear the consequences? Is Trump blackmailed because of the Epstein files?
The issue is not whether America should support Israel. It is whether decisions of war and peace are being made independently, transparently, and in the American national interest.
Carlson’s allegation about Trump’s words remains an account of a private conversation, not an independently verified quotation. But the questions it raises demand serious answers.
BELOW IS AN EXCERPT FROM JUDGE NAPOLITANO’S PODCAST DISCUSSING THE ISSUE – IT INCLUDES THE PART OF TUCKER CARLSON’S NPR INTERVIEW
