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David Smith in Washington

Tucker and Trump’s marriage of convenience heads for divorce court

Two men shake hands on stage in front of several US flags.
Trump with Tucker Carlson at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, in October 2024. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

He can’t live with him and can’t live without him. But, finally, the conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson seems to have made up his mind about Donald Trump. Their up-and-down marriage of political convenience is heading for the divorce court.

On Tuesday Carlson admitted that he will be “tormented” for a long time by his support for Trump in the 2024 US presidential election “and I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people”. What he did not say is whether this presages his own run for president in 2028.

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