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Carlson’s ‘misinformation’ campaign ‘dangerous’: Sarah Huckabee Sanders

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by Ryan Mancini - 04/23/26 2:22 PM ET

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by Ryan Mancini - 04/23/26 2:22 PM ET

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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) on Thursday accused conservative media personality Tucker Carlson of engaging with a “dangerous” campaign of “misinformation” after recently saying he regrets supporting President Trump.

Sanders told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin on “Squawk Box” that though she could not speak for Carlson about his comments, what he has said is “simply not based in fact.”

“I don’t know what the shift brought to him, but the things that he is saying, the type of misinformation that he’s putting out on a daily basis, are not only wrong, but frankly they’re dangerous, and I hope that he’ll have another about-shift at some point and start talking with real facts and stop misleading people around the country,” she told Sorkin.

Carlson had been a prominent Trump supporter since the president’s first campaign in 2016. But on “The Tucker Carlson Show” on Monday, Carlson expressed regret and apologized for backing Trump.

“So I do think it’s like a moment to wrestle with our own consciences. You know, we’ll be tormented by it for a long time,” he said while speaking with his brother, Buckley Carlson. “I will be. And I want to say, I’m sorry for misleading people, and it was not intentional. That’s all I’ll say.”

Carlson’s criticism of the Trump administration widened after the U.S.-Israeli conflict in Iran began. He backed Trump’s “America First” isolationist policy that promised no more “forever wars” following the prolonged wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The online host said he now believes that prominent people on the right who backed Trump ahead of the 2024 election are “implicated” in the developing conflicts in the Middle East.

“You and I and everyone else who supported him –– you wrote speeches for him, I campaigned for him –– I mean, we’re implicated in this for sure,” Carlson told his brother. “It’s not enough to say, ‘Well, I changed my mind’ –– or like, ‘Oh, this is bad –– I’m out.'”

Carlson interviewed Sanders’s father, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, in the days leading up to the start of war on Feb. 28. He pressed Huckabee on his remark that it would be “fine” if Israel took all of the Middle East as its own territory, suggesting the Bible gives the Jewish state that right.

After Carlson protested that claim, Huckabee said Israel does not “want to take it over.” Huckabee later suggested during the interview that the claim was a “hyperbolic statement.”

Huckabee later accused Carlson of being “offensive” in suggesting that Trump was taking cues from Israel on foreign policy. He referred back to his interview with Carlson while speaking with NewsNation’s Leland Vittert on his show “On Balance.”

“Look, it doesn’t matter what Tucker Carlson thinks about me,” the ambassador said. “It does matter what he thinks about President Trump and his administration, and President Trump’s leadership is the world leader and the head of both foreign policy and domestic policy.”

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