Tucker Carlson says Trump’s Justice Department is coming for him | EUROtoday

Right-wing media commentator Tucker Carlson claims President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice could possibly be constructing a legal case in opposition to him.

In a clip shared Saturday night on X, Carlson stated the CIA is “preparing some kind of criminal referral” in opposition to him to the Justice Department “on the basis of a supposed crime.” The former Fox News host claimed investigators had learn his textual content messages and that the supposed probe pertains to “talking to people in Iran before the war.”

“The crime under consideration, apparently, would be the foreign agent act or something like that, acting as an agent of a foreign power,” he stated.

Carlson could also be referring to the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which requires that “certain agents of foreign principals who are engaged in political activities or other activities specified under the statute” make common disclosures about their work, in accordance with the Justice Department.

The podcaster didn’t seem to supply proof for his claims. The Independent has requested remark from the Justice Department and CIA.

Carlson stated he’s “not too worried about an actual criminal case” for a variety of causes, together with that he’s “not an agent of a foreign power” and has “never taken money from anybody.”

“It’s my job to talk to everybody all the time and try and figure out what’s happening around the world. That’s literally what I do for a living, and I’m not going to stop doing that, nor should I, I don’t think,” he stated.

“I’m also an American. I can talk to anybody. I have no secrets to divulge. So, legally, I think the case is ludicrous, and I doubt it’ll even become a case,” he continued.

The fashionable conservative media persona, who hosts The Tucker Carlson Show podcast, has lately criticized the president over his conflict with Iran, together with condemning the army marketing campaign as “absolutely disgusting and evil” in a press release to ABC News’ Jonathan Karl late final month, simply hours after the assaults started.

The president slammed Carlson days later throughout an interview with Karl.

“Tucker has misplaced his approach,” Trump stated. “I knew that a long time ago, and he’s not MAGA. MAGA is saving our country. MAGA is making our country great again.”

“MAGA is America first, and Tucker is none of those things. And Tucker is really not smart enough to understand that,” he added.

Carlson’s opposition possible got here as no shock. According to The New York Times, he expressed his opposition to the conflict over the course of three Oval Office conferences with Trump within the weeks main as much as the army marketing campaign, which launched February 28.

The podcaster was additionally outspoken concerning the earlier strikes in opposition to Iran in June 2025, when Trump introduced that U.S. forces had “completely, totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program in a collection of missile strikes and bombings.

Around that very same time, Carlson went viral for an interview with Republican Senator Ted Cruz, throughout which he accused the lawmaker of not understanding sufficient about Iran to touch upon the battle.