Tucker Carlson on his MAGA split and Trump’s ‘nihilism’

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Tucker Carlson is talking about what happened behind closed doors in his very public break with President Trump over the war with Iran. He recounts an Oval Office meeting, before the conflict began, when Carlson says he warned Trump that he was allowing the U.S. to be led to war by Israel. “Yes, you’re right,” Carlson claims Trump admitted. “But in the end we all die anyway, so it doesn’t matter.” "And I was shocked by that, because it's nihilism,” he says. “That's the last thing any leader should display.” In response to a request for comment from NPR, the White House did not address that point specifically, instead sending along a social media post by the president that describes Carlson…