Carlson Not Happy About Trump Backtrack — Slams Both Parties, Calls Clarification "A Hostage Tape"

Carlson began by accusing the media and the foreign policy establishment, both he referred to as “political parties,” of coming together in attacking the president.

“Well as the rage storm swirled, the president bowed to the inevitable, genuflecting before U.S. intelligence agencies whose judgment must never be questioned and recited the now obligatory loyalty to the spy bureaucrats now in charge of our country,” Carlson said.

He called his clarification a “hostage tape” went after the folks who made the president “buckle.”

“The people yelling the loudest about how the Russians are our greatest enemy and Trump is their puppet happen to be the very same people who have been mismanaging our foreign policy for the past two decades,” Carlson said. “The people who invaded Iraq and wouldn’t admit it was a mistake, the people who killed Muammar Gaddafi for no obvious reason and prolonged the horrible Syrian civil war and then threw open the borders in Europe… These are people who’ve made America weaker and poor and sadder. The group whose failures got Trump elected in the first place.”