Tucker Carlson, one of the most prominent and provocative voices on the American right, and Hunter Biden, the son of former Democratic president Joe Biden, who for years was himself one of the right’s favorite targets, bonded over a common enemy in an interview Carlson conducted with Biden on Tuesday: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and to a large extent Israel as well.
Biden is continuing an unusual round of media interviews. Last Friday, in an interview with the BBC, he spoke about his father’s condition and said that the cancer affecting the former president had spread to his bones.
In the interview with Carlson, however, the discussion focused at length on the controversies surrounding Hunter himself, his drug addiction, the laptop that became a political weapon against the Biden family, and, at one point, Israel.
During the conversation, Carlson claimed that at the time of the Hunter Biden laptop affair, Israeli figures or figures with ties to Israel were the ones who pushed claims to him that material showing the abuse of minors had been found on the computer. It is important to emphasize that Carlson did not present public evidence for this claim during the segment, but described it based on what was referred to as his personal experience.
“The claim that there was material involving the abuse of minors on the computer came from the Israelis,” he said. “I’m just telling you that they came to me with it, and that’s how I know it.”
Carlson rejects Russian involvement in Hunter Biden laptop
Carlson went on to claim that at the time, he sent one of his producers to meet with a person who, he said, had ties to Netanyahu. According to Carlson, this particularly angered him when former senior US intelligence officials instead pointed to Russia in connection with the affair.
“They were behind it,” Carlson claimed. “I felt like everybody in Washington knew it, but there was so much pressure not to criticize Israel in any way that they just said, ‘It’s the Russians, it’s the Russians.'”
Carlson also acknowledged that while he was working at Fox News, he did not say this publicly. “I admit it. I didn’t say it. I was part of the problem too, but I knew.”
It was precisely at this point that a symbiotic connection emerged between the two participants in the interview. Hunter Biden, who explained how deeply the serious allegations against him had affected him, moved on to discuss the criticism now directed at Carlson himself and rejected claims that Carlson is antisemitic.
