Laurie Cardoza-Moore, an evangelical Christian Zionist leader, issued a sharp rebuke over the weekend after images surfaced showing conservative commentator Tucker Carlson posing alongside former President Donald J. Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk at the White House.
“Tucker Carlson’s antisemitism does not reflect the values of the Trump administration,” Cardoza-Moore said in a statement. “He is the slightly savvier mentor of Candace Owens, peddling a new, woke-right, fake-Christian form of Jew-hatred.”
Cardoza-Moore, who hosts the syndicated television program “Focus on Israel,” said she had been inundated with calls from concerned Jewish and Christian supporters following the photos. “We, the people, elected President Trump with an overwhelming majority and a mandate to stand with Israel and our Jewish brethren against the rise of antisemitism, anti-Israelism, and anti-Zionism,” she said. “Under the Biden administration, policies have incited violence against Jewish communities on college campuses, in synagogues, and other places of worship. Our 47th president is without any doubt Israel’s greatest friend in the White House ever, but Tucker Carlson’s anti-Semitism is appalling.”
In 2024, Trump won 77,284,118 votes or 49.8% of the votes cast for president. That is the second-highest vote total in US history, trailing only the 81,284,666 votes that Joe Biden won in 2020.
Cardoza-Moore accused Carlson of providing a platform for Holocaust revisionists and individuals hostile to Israel. “Following the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust, Tucker has chosen to amplify voices that spread antisemitic conspiracy theories,” she said. “He falsely claims that the Israel Defense Forces deliberately target civilians—an accusation with no factual basis.”
In her closing remarks, Cardoza-Moore called for Carlson to be distanced from Trump’s political orbit. “Tucker Carlson should not be allowed anywhere near the White House,” she said. “His views on Jews are demonic and in violation of the Ninth Commandment—bearing false witness against one’s neighbor. America was founded on Judeo-Christian values, and we can put America first without false prophets like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens.”
