Allegations of treason circulated over the weekend after Tucker Carlson self-reported a claim the CIA was preparing “some kind of criminal referral” against him after reading his text messages.
Since President Donald Trump’s initiation of Operation Epic Fury, the divide among certain talking heads on the right pertaining to actions overseas has grown more prevalent. Before the commander-in-chief rose against “jealous and angry Human Beings” in defense of Mark Levin, Carlson was stirring his own controversy, alleging the government was investigating him for supposed violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
In a video little more than five minutes long that had been posted to social media, earning more than 24 million views on X after 36 hours, the former Fox News host accused the CIA of reading his private text messages as he reported, “So the other day I found out that the CIA is preparing some kind of criminal referral against me — a crime report to Department of Justice on the basis of a supposed crime I committed. What’s that crime? Well, talking to people in Iran before the war. They read my texts.”
When you discover the CIA has been reading your texts in order to frame you for a crime. pic.twitter.com/XgoluHw8EG
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) March 14, 2026
Outlining his lack of serious concern, Carlson contended, “I’m not an agent of a foreign power. Unlike a lot of people commenting on U.S. politics and global affairs, I have only one loyalty, and that’s the United States and have never acted against it.”
After arguing he hadn’t taken money from anybody, the commentator continued, “It’s my job to talk to everybody all the time and try to figure out what’s happening around the world.”
“I’m also an American. I can talk to anybody,” he added.
Worth noting, the commentator’s son, Buckley Carlson, was hired as a member of Vice President J.D. Vance’s press team when the administration began.
As had been reported in December, Carlson took time during an interview with Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani on stage at the Doha Forum to announce he was buying his own place in the capital city of the Persian Gulf nation. “I’m doing that because I like the city, I think it’s beautiful. But also, to make the statement that I’m an American and a free man and I’ll be wherever I wanna be.”
Tucker Carlson, in Doha, announces he’s buying property in Qatar to make a statement https://t.co/kHpYpRXkKq
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) December 8, 2025
It wasn’t long after the commentator made his case that counter-allegations were dropped against him, including accusations of treason.
Months after having a public dispute over the United States’ role in the defense of Israel, and just before sharing an AI video that depicted Carlson in Middle Eastern garb in direct communication with the Iranian regime, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) shared a post from writer and investigator Eitan Fischberger who suggested among other things that Trump may have “used Tucker as an unwitting counterintelligence asset to feed faulty information to Iran.”
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 15, 2026
THE TUCKER CARLSON CONFESSION
A couple of things come to mind regarding Tucker Carlson’s release of a video like this.
1. Carlson released that video because he committed acts of betrayal against our country and in support of the Iranian regime; 2. he either knows, or it just…
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) March 15, 2026
You are fooling yourself if you think this is JUST about Iran, Tucker.
18 U.S.C. § 2381 and 18 U.S.C. § 2339A/B https://t.co/tUF8eZrEVj
— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) March 15, 2026
Meanwhile, in response to a claim from comedian Dave Smith that a “gigantic scandal and a disgrace to a professed free society” was underway, dubbing supporters “traitors to the country and the most basic principles of liberty,” Axios reporter Marc Caputo said, “The online chatter about @TuckerCarlson looked like a quite a story: he was being spied on by the CIA & knowing that, Trump treated him as a useful idiot by feeding him disinfo that fooled the Iranians about the looming Feb. 28 attack. But top admin officials say it’s bullsh*t.”
Caputo went on to add that he’d been told, “there’s no CIA investigation of Carlson,” and, “In his meeting, the two politely disagreed, & Trump held to his position Iran was a threat & didn’t mislead him … Said one source: Trump ‘wasn’t participating in an op.'”
2/2 Specifically, I’m told
1) there’s no CIA investigation of Carlson
2) In his meeting, the two politely disagreed, & Trump held to his position Iran was a threat & didn’t mislead him
Said one source: Trump “wasn’t participating in an op.”
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) March 16, 2026
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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