A red-faced Tucker Carlson has strenuously apologized for suggesting Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited the notorious so-called “Pedophile Island” owned by sicko Jeffrey Epstein.
“They didn’t know each other, they never emailed with each other, never been in the same room. They had no relationship of any kind,” the ex-Fox News anchor-turned-independent podcaster told US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, referring to Herzog and Epstein, in a 2-minute video posted on X on Saturday evening.
Carlson said his apology came after he received a “long letter” from Herzog’s team denying the allegations he referred to in his interview with Huckabee the day before.
“The current president of Israel, whom I know you know, apparently was at ‘Pedo Island.’ That’s what it says,” Carlson said in the earlier interview, referencing an AI-doctored image of Herzog and the late sex offender posted by Times of London reporter Gabrielle Weiniger, who later admitted it was bogus, Mediate reported.
“Still-living, high-level Israeli officials are directly implicated in Epstein’s life, if not his crimes, so I think you’d be following this,” Carlson, 56, advised Huckabee at the time.
Carlson — a fierce critic of US-Israel policy who has been accused of using antisemitic language — said he regularly receives letters saying he got something wrong but “rarely” is the correspondence so adamant as what Herzog’s people penned.
“And so for that reason, we are taking it seriously. There is nothing worse than impugning the reputation of an innocent man,” Carlson told Huckabee in the video posted Saturday.
“So I just want to say clearly I’m sorry to imply that I knew something I didn’t know — of course I didn’t know that Isaac Herzog was on that island,” he said. “I was referring to that email and the protest against him. But I don’t know that, and I didn’t mean to suggest that I do know that.”
Epstein, a convicted pedophile and once-powerful financier, died in shame in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 while awaiting sex-trafficking and other heinous charges.
Carlson’s recent trip to Israel stirred up additional controversy after he claimed he was “detained” by airport security only to later be seen in photos happily posing for photos with employees at Ben Gurion Airport in security footage, which called his allegations into question.
