The War Party v. Trump – Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson came to Twitter yet again – in open defiance of a cease-and-desist letter – to respond to the Trump indictment. Specifically he charged that both Party establishments brought this about because Trump denounced their war agenda as founded in lies.

The War Party strikes back

Tucker Carlson released his third episode on Twitter yesterday at 6:30 p.m. EDT.

He began by detailing the mechanics of the federal arrest, the arraignment, the pleading (Not Guilty), and so on. Then he said Trump set himself up for the present pass on February 13, 2016 – the Greenville Republican Presidential debate. The New York Times published a full transcript the next day. Carlson embedded clips from the most salient dialog, including Trump’s direct attacks on Jeb Bush. In them, Trump said two things that Carlson says were direct attacks on the ruling establishment:

1. “We should never have been in Iraq. We have destabilized the Middle East.”
2. “They lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction. There were none – and they knew there were none.”

Several in the audience cried “Boo!” on Trump at that moment, but Trump doesn’t seem to have cared. He had made his point – that the war in Iraq was not only counterproductive but founded on a lie. That, says Carlson, was when both Party establishments decided they must remove him. Or if they couldn’t remove him, they would thwart him at every turn. Several of them – Carlson named Mike Pompeo as the worst – flattered Trump to get sensitive jobs, and spent their days undermining Trump.

Pompeo, yesterday, suggested Trump’s handling of “classified” documents, as the indictment details, endangered U.S. military service members.

Carlson ridiculed that notion, saying that in Washington, the government “classifies everything.”

We can’t choose our martyrs…

Carlson closed his monologue by saying, “We can’t choose our martyrs; we can only choose our principles.”

The notion that a unified war party actually governs Washington is not new. The Libertarian Party and their allies have argued that for years. “War is the health of the State,” argues former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), quoting Randolph Bourne. And no one disputes that Trump did not start a war during his Presidency. The only thing people do dispute is whether Trump was the first modern President not to start any wars.

Thus far, CNAV has found no other commentary on an ironical fact about the venue of the Greenville debate. It took place in an institution calling itself the Peace Center – yet Trump was the only candidate present to call for peace and mean it.

Furthermore, CNN, though they took note of Trump calling the war in Iraq a mistake, missed the part about weapons of mass destructing being a lie. (Jeb Bush dropped out of the race after this debate.)