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Tucker Carlson Calls Out ‘Deep State’ Reporter At Fox News

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Tucker Carlson unleashed his fury on a former Fox News colleague whom he accused of enabling “deep state” actors in the government, the same ones now undermining President Donald Trump during the biggest foreign affairs success of his second administration.

Speaking on his own show, Carlson called Jennifer Griffin, the network’s chief national security correspondent, “the deepest of the deep state” for sourcing from within the U.S. intelligence community. The remarks come shortly after Carlson openly feuded with U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) over his lack of knowledge about Iran.

“Jennifer Griffin is, even by the standards of Pentagon employees, she’s not technically an employee of the Pentagon. She’s a shill, obviously, for the deepest of the deep states. But she’s like a parody. She’s like parody. It’s like the whole thing,” Carlson told his guest, former Fox host Clayton Morris.

Both men agreed that Griffin, who has worked for Fox since 1996, is carrying water for the Pentagon.

“The crazy thing is Jen Griffin is a liar, but also very liberal, true Trump hater, to the point where I complained about her and I really tried not to complain about other people at Fox when I worked there,” Carlson said.

“She was discrediting the channel, she was such a Trump hater, and it was emotional.”

When he brought his concern to Fox executives, Carlson said his appeals to distance Griffin from the Pentagon were rejected.

One executive allegedly told Carlson, “You could not touch Jennifer Griffin,” he added.

“She’s an idiot. She doesn’t tell the truth. She misleads our viewers. And she’s like a screaming liberal who hates Trump, who our viewers love. So what are we getting out of this?” Carlson went on.

Morris noted that Griffin has been given her own office inside the Pentagon, suggesting she may be biased in her reporting after getting too close to her sources.

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Shortly after President Donald Trump announced that he reached a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, Carlson wrote on social media, “Thank God.”

He then took a swipe at Mark Levin, the Fox News host with whom he has traded deeply personal barbs over the past several weeks.

“Thank God Trump brokered a ceasefire. That’s the last thing Mark Levin wanted,” he wrote on X.

Carlson, who was fired by Fox following its 2023 settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, has emerged as a power player in conservative media and, in many ways, has grown beyond the confines of his former primetime show.

He now airs exclusively on his own website, where “The Tucker Carlson Show” commands tens of millions of viewers per episode, and he was even floated as a potential vice presidential pick for Trump last year. His sway over the MAGA grassroots is so significant that the president called him in recent days to assuage his concern that the U.S. was about to enter the Israel-Iran conflict.

Rather than target Trump for bombing Iran, Carlson has trained his fire on Levin, who in turn has accused his former colleague of antisemitism for labeling him a “neoconservative,” pro-war Republican in a party now dominated by isolationists.