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Tucker continues his campaign of smarmy lies. A few days ago it was his rants with Piers Morgan about how Ukraine is evil and Putin has never done anything to him. Well, now he's repackaging old conspiracy theories:
LPT: Anyone who repeats that something is "a fact" seven times is probably lying to you.
The claim that weapons we send Ukraine are being resold to Mexican cartels is a fake story from June 2023. A Mexican reporter (mis)identified a weapon an alleged cartel member had as a Javelin, and mentioned in passing that the Javelin is also being used in Ukraine. Several zigger-rightists (including such luminaries as Jack Posobiec and Vivek Ramasamy) jumped on this and misrepresented the reporter's comment as claiming that the cartel's weapon actually came from Ukraine. Some bottom-barrel news outlets repeated the false story (Example).
In reality, most analysts say the weapon was likely an AT4, not a Javelin. And obviously Ukraine is in no position to sell spare weapons to cartels halfway around the world.
Article from Reuters / Archive
So, Tucker is trying to breathe new life in an old debunked story. He even got a shout-out from Libs of TikTok, who characterized it as "Tucker Carlson EXPOSES a major scandal":

Sorry Chaya, spewing evidence-free assertions in a Twitter interview does not constitute exposing a scandal.
LPT: Anyone who repeats that something is "a fact" seven times is probably lying to you.
The claim that weapons we send Ukraine are being resold to Mexican cartels is a fake story from June 2023. A Mexican reporter (mis)identified a weapon an alleged cartel member had as a Javelin, and mentioned in passing that the Javelin is also being used in Ukraine. Several zigger-rightists (including such luminaries as Jack Posobiec and Vivek Ramasamy) jumped on this and misrepresented the reporter's comment as claiming that the cartel's weapon actually came from Ukraine. Some bottom-barrel news outlets repeated the false story (Example).
In reality, most analysts say the weapon was likely an AT4, not a Javelin. And obviously Ukraine is in no position to sell spare weapons to cartels halfway around the world.
Article from Reuters / Archive
So, Tucker is trying to breathe new life in an old debunked story. He even got a shout-out from Libs of TikTok, who characterized it as "Tucker Carlson EXPOSES a major scandal":

Sorry Chaya, spewing evidence-free assertions in a Twitter interview does not constitute exposing a scandal.