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SCOOP: The Trump administration and Spirit Airlines are nearing a deal where the U.S. government would put up to $500 million into Spirit Airlines stock warrants to try to save the company, leading to a potential significant stake in the company. Team effort w/ @alyrose and @AndrewScurria wsj.com/business/airli…

🚨 EXCLUSIVE—Tucker Carlson and his brother Buckley want Trump to ID every Jew & Christian who supports Israel to "root them out" of government. One of first Nazi laws was banning most Jews from government. The Carlson brothers' proposed "update" is to also purge Christian Zionists. The only enemy of the people they mentioned by name in this bizarre segment was @SebGorka, Trump's most trusted counterterrorism advisor in the White House. Gorka is a staunch American patriot and a fierce anti-Communist. So why does Tucker want him gone? Because Gorka also believes that a close relationship with Israel enhances U.S. national security. The Carlson brothers' proposed purge would also cover Stephen Miller (@StephenM), @SusieWiles, and basically every single one of Trump's most loyal advisors. Of course, such a purge also would have included their late, great father, Amb. Dick Carlson, a mentor of mine, who held numerous government roles and had worked with the CIA. In the 13 months since their Dad died, Tucker and his brother Buckley have repeatedly vilified — and outright questioned the loyalties of — anyone who was like him, a Christian who supported the Jewish state. And both Tucker and Buckley have flirted with Holocaust denial, particularly in recent months. Buckley is a fanboy of and proudly interacts with a whole host of open anti-Semites, as well as white nationalists and Holocaust deniers. Tucker, for his part, talks a lot about the Holocaust, but refuses to acknowledge that six million Jews were murdered.  He also shockingly claimed that Hitler had never called to "exterminate" the Jews — despite ample evidence that Hitler had (obviously) done so. And the first time Tucker interviewed his brother three months ago, Buckley proudly discussed how his top news source was the Unz Report, which is perhaps best known for publishing David Irving and other Holocaust deniers. Now the Carlson brothers are peddling ideas originated by the Nazis, calling for the purge from government service almost every Jewish Republican and (by their own admission) the majority of Christians. Tucker and his defenders would surely retort that the brothers aren't saying ALL Jews or Christians, just those that are "Zionists." Well, the 1933 Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service ALSO contained exceptions for some Jews: veterans of WWI and those in place since 1914. Those exemptions, of course, didn't last long. It was only a few years before the Nazis closed those "loopholes," then Aryanized the rest of society. Of course, as someone who frequently invokes history, Tucker knows all of this — and what happened next. So why would he and his brother even go down this path? Spoiler alert to Megyn Kelly: it's not merely to criticize "Israel."