Colby Hall writes for Mediaite:
Gorka argued the former Fox News host is holding Trump and the Republican Party hostage to anti-Semitism. He cited a lengthy column from David Samuels in Tablet Magazine, titled “Op Nation: Why Tucker Carlson became America’s conspiracist-in-chief.”
In a post to X, formerly Twitter, Gorka floated “3 plausible explanations” for why Carlson has embraced conspiracy theories that many perceive as bigoted: that “Carlson is an antisemite,” that he “wants to be president” and sees “antisemitism as a useful wedge” for his political gains, and finally that “he’s a Fed.”
The essay linked is something of a fever dream — it speaks of rappers’s private jets filled with $100 million worth of “liquid cocaine,” pegged to the recent travails of currently incarcerated impresario Sean Combs and his alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
Samuels does a lot of throat-clearing to get to Carlson’s conspiracies but finally arrives at:
If you truly believed that America’s fate was about to be decided by the contest between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the holographic representative of the Democratic Party machine, what would be the last thing you would do less than three months before the election?
Somewhere high up on the list would be relitigating World War II and implying that American heroes who fought and died in that war sacrificed their lives for nothing, due to the malignant deceptions of their puppet masters and the evil Winston Churchill, who was controlled by Zionists. Then there would be directly associating the Republican Party, and its leader, Donald Trump, with Nazis, or else with Russia and Vladimir Putin, thereby validating the most common Democratic Party attack lines against Trump over the past decade. One might associate Donald Trump’s chief surrogates with people who promote Nazis. One might also argue that Joe Biden’s recklessly pro-Israel foreign policy endangers America, and that the masked demonstrators who celebrate foreign terrorist organizations while driving Jews off college campuses are important campaigners for human rights. One might platform antisemites, and inject their poison into the bloodstream of the Republican Party, making it clear to Jews—and to most normal Americans—that conspiratorial antisemitism is equally if not more at home on the right as it is on the left. One could launch one’s own cross-country political tent-show tour to compete with Trump and steal his thunder less than two months before election day.
Tucker Carlson has done all of the above. The question is why.
The argument from Samuels is a convoluted one and, as admitted by the author, a conspiracy theory. It’s lengthy and as impossible to follow as it is implausible, but the gist seems to be that Carlson is working on behalf of the federal government to sabotage Trump because of Dominion’s lawsuit against Fox. I think? It doesn’t make much sense. But as both Gorka and Carlson know well: the best way to fight against conspiracy theories is to invent your own.