{"id":72284,"date":"2026-04-21T09:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/tucker-carlson-says-he-regrets-backing-donald-trump-and-is-tormented\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:58:14","slug":"tucker-carlson-says-he-regrets-backing-donald-trump-and-is-tormented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/tucker-carlson-says-he-regrets-backing-donald-trump-and-is-tormented\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Carlson says he regrets backing Donald Trump and is \u2018tormented\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The podcaster admits he \u2018misled\u2019 supporters as his rift with the US president deepens over the Iran war<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/apr\/21\/us-politics-latest-news-kevin-warsh-federal-reserve-donald-trump\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/tucker-carlson\">Tucker Carlson<\/a>, a conservative podcaster, has said he is \u201ctormented\u201d by his support of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>, issuing in an extraordinary mea culpa that called for \u201ca moment to wrestle with our own consciences\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson delivered that comment in a conversation with Buckley Carlson, his brother and a former Trump speechwriter, on The Tucker Carlson Show on Monday that reviewed the sidelining of traditional conservative values in a Republican party now dominated by the president.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/21\/tucker-carlson-regrets-trump-support\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The podcaster admits he \u2018misled\u2019 supporters as his rift with the US president deepens over the Iran war US politics live \u2013 latest updates Tucker Carlson, a conservative podcaster, has said he is \u201ctormented\u201d by his support of Donald Trump, issuing in an extraordinary mea culpa that called for \u201ca moment to wrestle with our &#8230; <a title=\"Tucker Carlson says he regrets backing Donald Trump and is \u2018tormented\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/tucker-carlson-says-he-regrets-backing-donald-trump-and-is-tormented\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tucker Carlson says he regrets backing Donald Trump and is \u2018tormented\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}