・Fox News host Tucker Carlson applauded President Trump's firing of his national security adviser John Bolton.
・"National security adviser John Bolton got fired this morning as you no doubt have heard. It’s a major personnel change.
But it’s more than that, it is great news for America," Carlson said Tuesday night on his show.
・Carlson, 50, said the news was particularly good "for the large number of young people who would have been killed
in pointless wars if Bolton had stayed on the job."
・…The former national security adviser said he was not fired but resigned.
(↑…ボルトン氏が首になったのか?自ら辞めたのか?…もしかして、トランプさんにヤラレチャッタ野鴨ネギ…!?)
・The DMZ meeting was all about shaping a narrative.
That is why 【John Bolton】, the ultra-hawkish national security adviser,
【was nowhere to be seen】; he had been 【sent, or sent himself, to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia】.
・But the official US party included 【 Tucker Carlson 】, a Fox News talkshow host,
who is 【 Trump’s principal channel 】 to the non-interventionist section of his far-right base.
・Eleventh-hour conversations with ”Carlson” reportedly
【 persuaded Trump not to launch missiles against Iran this month, after the downing of a US drone 】.
・As tensions with Iran threaten to spill over into war, the big question is who has sway over President Donald Trump,
his hawkish advisers or a cautious Fox News host, and the answer might make all the difference.
・Meanwhile, the Daily Beast claims that it’s Tucker Carlson who actually has Trump’s ear when it comes to Iran.
The prime-time Fox News host, who once supported George W. Bush’s attack on Iraq,…
・…and Carlson frequently brings up Trump’s promise to withdraw from “endless wars” in the Middle East.
・Carlson hosted retired US Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor, who warned that a war with Iran was a loser going into 2020.
・This was not a one-time occurrence, either; Carlson was warning against a war with Iran as early as July 2018,
following Trump’s decision to pull out from the nuclear deal and impose new sanctions on Tehran.
War, Carlson argued, would “destroy” Trump’s presidency.
・Is Bolton actually in charge?
Does Tucker really have Trump’s ear?
Which way will Trump jump?
For all the media speculation, it’s actually impossible to tell, and once again,
to borrow the president’s favorite phrase, we’ll just have to “see what happens.”