Tucker Carlson: Democrats arrested Trump because 7 years ago he said Bush lied about Iraq – By John Cook (Insider) / June 14, 2023
- On the third installment of “Tucker on Twitter,” Carlson said Trump’s arrest was for accusing George W. Bush of lying about Iraq in 2016.
- “That was the one thing you’re not allowed to say,” Carlson said.
- Many Democrats have said that thing.
Exiled Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson argued today on the latest installment of “Tucker on Twitter” that Donald Trump wasn’t arrested this week for failing to hand over classified documents: The real reason was for saying that former President George W. Bush lied about WMD in Iraq seven years ago.
“We can point to the precise moment that permanent Washington decided to send Donald Trump to prison,” Tucker said: Feburary 16, 2016. That’s the day of a Republican primary debate in Greenville, South Carolina, at which Trump violated Republican orthodoxy by accusing George W. Bush of lying in the run-up to the Iraq War.
“We should never have been in Iraq,” Trump said at the debate. “They lied, they said there were weapons of mass destruction and there were none, and they knew there were none.” The remarks caused quite a stir, and Trump later backed off the statement. He has repeatedly claimed falsely that he opposed the invasion of Iraq (he supported it).
