Nicotine-pouch salesman and onetime conservative pundit Tucker Carlson has all but endorsed lefty Michigan Senate hopeful Dr. Abdul El-Sayed while defending his controversial comments about 9/11.
Carlson, 57, who recently fawned over disgraced Democratic former first son Hunter Biden, last week ripped into El-Sayed’s Republican foe, Mike Rogers, for his track record on national security issues and urged the “good people of Michigan keep this man far away from Washington.”
“El-Sayed did not celebrate airplane hijackings or cheerlead Al-Qaeda; he simply said that the U.S. conducting terrorism of its own in response to 9/11 was not exactly an appropriate reaction. He is obviously right,” Carlson wrote in his newsletter Friday.
In a 2021 podcast episode, El-Sayed said, “9/11 scarred our country in profound ways, but what we did after 9/11 scarred millions of other people.
“When we talk about 9/11, we often fail to center them.”
Four days after that, on the 20th anniversary of the attack, the Democrat wrote in a since-deleted tweet, “Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my faith.
“Tomorrow, I’ll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my country.”
El-Sayed also has embraced radical Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who claimed that “America deserved 9/11” and later hung up a framed copy of a front-page story of the attack in his studio.
“It is disqualifying for a US Senate candidate to believe that Americans should ‘center’ their grief from 9/11,” Rogers previously told The Post.
“Abdul El-Sayed’s attitude towards the worst tragedy in American history is disgusting and makes him completely unfit to serve in public office.”
Carlson, who has spewed conspiracy theories about 9/11 and many other issues, blasted that response from Rogers, who briefly chaired the House Intelligence Committee.
“Hold on a second. Disgusting? Understanding that the Bush administration was wrong to kill hundreds of thousands of people and waste trillions of dollars in Iraq, even though, again, Iraq did not do 9/11, is disgusting?” contended Carlson, who was once a staunch proponent of the Iraq War.
“We are really not sure who Mike Rogers is, but if anyone in Michigan’s Senate race is ‘unfit to serve in public office,’ it is him,” the former Fox news host added.
Rogers’ campaign declined to comment.
Recently, Carlson made waves by welcoming and defending scandal-magnet Biden onto his show, whom he once claimed to have “always liked.”
Biden, 56, was convicted of lying about his drug use to buy a gun, as well as defrauding US taxpayers of at least $1.4 million in unpaid taxes before being given a blanket pardon by his father, then-President Joe Biden.
Hunter also was involved in a massive laptop scandal that The Post first revealed and which detailed evidence he allegedly trafficked on his father’s position as vice president to enrich his family.
The fallen son most recently introduced a meme coin called $LAPTOP whose initial gains collapsed within minutes last week.
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