Ben Shapiro says that Tucker Carlson “put out a statement that I think is factually incoherent about Mark Levin's position on Iran and Iran itself”
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From the June 5, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): Some of this broke out into a bit of a public tete-a-tete, mainly from Tucker Carlson.
So Mark Levin — of course, I'm friends with Mark. Mark, according to Tucker, went to the White House yesterday.
Tucker put out a statement that I think is factually incoherent about Mark Levin's position on Iran and Iran itself. It's rather lengthy. It says Mark Levin was at the White House today lobbying for war with Iran. To be clear, Levin has no plans to fight in this or any other war.
This is one of Tucker's shticks is that if you are not currently serving in the military, then you have to be in favor of apparently dismantling the American military or something like that.
The the basic argument seems to be that unless you personally plan to fight in a war, then you can never be in favor of American military threat or intervention on any level. Which is a weird position to take because I assume he doesn't take that position about the police, that unless you're a member of the police force, you have to be in favor of the police never policing crime.
I don't mean here that we are the world's policemen or anything like that. I mean that civilians in the United States have opinions that they vote on on what the noncivilians do. We are a civilian-led country. The civilians get to tell the military what to do. The president is a civilian. He tells the military what to do. We are the voters. We elect the president. When it comes to the police department, the police department works for the general public. The police department doesn't get to make its own decisions about what to do about crime. The general public decides what to do about crime and thus hires police officers and backs police officers and supports police officers.
Says he's demanding that American troops do it. We need to stop Iran from building nuclear weapons. He and like minded ideologues in Washington are now arguing they're just weeks away.
So first of all, that's not Mark and like minded ideologues. That's Donald J. Trump. That is President Trump. We need to stop Iran from building nuclear weapons. It's a Donald J. Trump position. It has been a Donald J. Trump position for well over a decade. So if Tucker wants to argue with somebody on that, he should be arguing with the president of the United States.