Tucker Carlson was seen posing for a picture with an employee at Isarel’s Ben Gurion Airport on security footage — further calling into question his claim he was detained at the travel hub on Wednesday.
Carlson, a well-known critic of Israel and proponent of antisemitic conspiracy theories, dropped by Tel Aviv for a few hours Wednesday for an arranged interview with US Ambassador Mike Huckabee.
While the ousted Fox News host and podcaster was receiving flak online for seemingly refusing to leave the complex, Carlson bizarrely asserted that he had actually been detained.
He said he and his executive producer were “hauled…into a side room” where airport security ordered them to reveal “what we spoke to Ambassador Huckabee about” during an interview.
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