Axios journalist Marc Caputo rejected speculation online that the Trump administration used right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson to trick the Iranian regime into thinking that a U.S. attack was not imminent.
Chatter began after Carlson claimed that the CIA was spying on his texts and planned to frame him for a crime. He said on Saturday that the Department of Justice was preparing to report him for "acting as an agent of a foreign power" and "talking to people in Iran" before the war broke out.
