Tucker Carlson, the former conservative pundit turned nicotine-pouch salesman, has effectively endorsed left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed while defending the Democrat’s controversial remarks about 9/11.
Carlson, 57, who recently lavished praise on disgraced former Democratic first son Hunter Biden, attacked El-Sayed’s Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, last week over his national security record. He urged the “good people of Michigan” to “keep this man far away from Washington.”
“El-Sayed did not celebrate airplane hijackings or cheerlead Al-Qaeda; he simply said that the U.S. conducting terrorism of its own in response to 9/11 was not exactly an appropriate reaction. He is obviously right,” Carlson wrote in his newsletter Friday.
During a 2021 podcast episode, El-Sayed said, “9/11 scarred our country in profound ways, but what we did after 9/11 scarred millions of other people.
“When we talk about 9/11, we often fail to center them.”
Four days later, on the 20th anniversary of the attacks, the Democrat posted a since-deleted tweet saying, “Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my faith.
“Tomorrow, I’ll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my country.”
El-Sayed has also embraced radical Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who once claimed that “America deserved 9/11” and later displayed a framed copy of a front-page story about the attacks in his studio.
“It is disqualifying for a US Senate candidate to believe that Americans should ‘center’ their grief from 9/11,” Rogers previously told The Post.
“Abdul El-Sayed’s attitude towards the worst tragedy in American history is disgusting and makes him completely unfit to serve in public office.”
Carlson, who has promoted conspiracy theories about 9/11 and other subjects, rejected Rogers’ criticism. Rogers briefly chaired the House Intelligence Committee.
“Hold on a second. Disgusting? Understanding that the Bush administration was wrong to kill hundreds of thousands of people and waste trillions of dollars in Iraq, even though, again, Iraq did not do 9/11, is disgusting?” Carlson argued. He was once a staunch supporter of the Iraq War.
“We are really not sure who Mike Rogers is, but if anyone in Michigan’s Senate race is ‘unfit to serve in public office,’ it is him,” the former Fox news host added.
Rogers’ campaign declined to comment.
Recently, Carlson made waves by welcoming and defending scandal-magnet Biden onto his show, whom he once claimed to have “always liked.”
Biden, 56, was convicted of lying about his drug use to buy a gun, as well as defrauding US taxpayers of at least $1.4 million in unpaid taxes before being given a blanket pardon by his father, then-President Joe Biden.
Hunter also was involved in a massive laptop scandal that The Post first revealed and which detailed evidence he allegedly trafficked on his father’s position as vice president to enrich his family.
The fallen son most recently introduced a meme coin called $LAPTOP whose initial gains collapsed within minutes last week.
