Hunter Biden, Tucker Carlson deny criticism of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu is antisemitic
In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Hunter Biden discussed his laptop controversy and alleged that Israeli figures pushed claims about illicit material on the device. Carlson also claimed that US intelligence officials falsely blamed Russia to avoid criticizing Israel.
Why it matters
The interview touches on sensitive geopolitical narratives and domestic political controversies involving the Biden family and US-Israel relations.
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…
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