Former Fox News host and one-time Trump booster Tucker Carlson declared Friday that President Donald Trump should be removed from office “immediately” over nuclear policy in the Iran conflict.
Carlson made the explosive declaration Friday during a lengthy interview with Joe Kent, the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, who resigned from the Trump administration in protest of the war with Iran.
The episode was ominously titled, “LEAKED: Pentagon Nuclear Plans Prove the US Is Out of Options,” with an entire chapter labeled, “Should Trump Be Impeached?”
Carlson said he had been “strongly opposed” to both of Trump’s first-term impeachments and called those efforts “absurd.” Then he drew a new line.
“The second any president actively considers first use of nuclear weapons, that person should be removed from office immediately, because that’s got to be the red line, destroying all of humanity with a nuclear strike,” Carlson said. “So why isn’t there an attempt to remove him from office, like, immediately?”
He added that “any leader of any country who suggests first use of nuclear weapons has forfeited his right to lead” and that “anyone who would even tolerate that kind of talk from any of his subordinates or employees is by definition unfit.”
