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Former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson on Thursday said that US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin threatened Congressmen that he would send 'your uncles, cousins and sons to fight Russia' if Ukraine aid is not approved. This revelation comes days after White House official John Kirby had said that 'American blood' will be the cost of supporting Volodymyr Zelenskyy if no money is sent to Kyiv.
Former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson on Thursday said that US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin threatened Congressmen that he would send ' your uncles, cousins and sons to fight Russia' if Ukraine aid is not approved. This revelation comes days after White House official John Kirby had said that 'American blood' will be the cost of supporting Volodymyr Zelenskyy if no money is sent to Kyiv.
"The Biden administration is openly threatening Americans over Ukraine. In a classified briefing in the House yesterday, defense secretary Lloyd Austin informed members that if they don’t appropriate more money for Zelensky, “we’ll send your uncles, cousins and sons to fight Russia.” Pay the oligarchs or we’ll kill your kids," Carlson tweeted. However, his statement cannot be verified. Neither Austin, nor the Defense Department have reacted to the statement.
“He really said this?” X owner Elon Musk asked.
“He really did. Confirmed,” Carlson replied.
The Biden administration is openly threatening Americans over Ukraine. In a classified briefing in the House yesterday, defense secretary Lloyd Austin informed members that if they don’t appropriate more money for Zelensky, “we’ll send your uncles, cousins and sons to fight… pic.twitter.com/BPKMEBW8TK
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) December 7, 2023
Carlson once hosted the most popular evening talk show on cable TV when Fox News mysteriously chose to part ways with him in April. He has since speculated that its corporate owners “really didn’t like” some of his coverage that challenged official narratives. In May, he launched his own show on Musk’s platform in a format similar to his long-form interviews for Fox.
On Tuesday, his guest was Congressman Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican opposed to sending any more money to Ukraine – on account of the US being too heavily in debt.
“How could Washington possibly send tens of billions more to sleazy oligarchs in Ukraine now that the whole enterprise has been revealed as a fruitless, corrupt and incredibly destructive disaster?” Carlson wondered in the introduction to that interview.
The US Congress has approved over $120 billion worth of aid to Kiev since the conflict with Russia escalated in February 2022, in the form of weapons and ammunition coming from the Pentagon’s stockpiles as well as cash payments to the Ukrainian government.
That money has mostly run out at this point, and the White House has asked for $60 billion more – choosing to bundle it with aid for Israel, weapons for Taiwan and “border security.” Some Republicans in both the House and the Senate have refused to go along, however. GOP senators stormed out of their briefing on Wednesday and later voted against advancing the aid package.
Meanwhile, Republican chairs of the Foreign Affairs, Armed Services, and Intelligence Committees in the House of Representatives have embraced the White House talking points in a memo aiming to persuade their party members to back the Ukraine funding bill, according to Axios.
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