Miles Mendel

My Contacts With Tucker Carlson About Anti-Semitism on His Show A few weeks ago, a mutual friend asked me if I’d be willing to speak to Tucker Carlson off the record. I agreed and Tucker called me three weeks ago to talk. I continued texting with him for eight days after that. But this past Friday, Tucker released a video in which he reported to the public on his off-the-record conversations with me. Inaccurately, of course. So here’s some additional information on my short-lived discussions with Tucker Carlson about anti-Semitism on his show. Tucker called me on Sunday, February 1. We talked for 1 hour and 23 minutes. Here’s what I noted down on my desk calendar right after the call: "8 am Tucker Carlson 83-minute call wanting to know how to end the charges of anti-Semitism against him. Trump told him to end it on Jan 11." As you can see, Tucker explained that he was calling because he had come under pressure from President Trump at his famous meeting at the White House on January 11. He told me the administration wants him to find a way to stop his high-profile fights with Jews and Zionist Christians. Tucker told me that he wanted my advice on “practical steps” he could take to change the impression that he is an anti-Semite. I thought he was asking me to host him in Israel. So I explained to him that I can’t do much to help him, because just about every Jew I know believes he’s been waging a savage campaign against Jews, Judaism, and Israel for the past 18 months—and that most think his aim is to drive Jews and Zionist Christians out of the Trump coalition and out of the Republican party. I said that even a year ago, quite a few Jews would probably have jumped at the chance to appear on the Tucker Carlson Show and to present an alternative point of view, but that this looked impossible to me now—and that it would stay that way as long as there’s no change of direction on his part. Tucker wanted me to explain to him why anyone would think he was an anti-Semite. I answered that question for more than an hour, giving him a series of examples of statements he and his guests had made on his show that seemed completely unhinged and motivated by a desire to slander Jews, Judaism, Israel, and Zionist Christians in order to do as much harm as possible. He kept expressing amazement that anyone would think he was an anti-Semite, and I kept giving him more examples of why I thought any fair observer would reach that conclusion if they were familiar with the relevant conversations he had hosted on his program. The conversation ended with my agreeing to continue the discussion. I didn’t feel he was open to dialing down the hostility toward Jews, Judaism, Israel, and Zionist Christians constantly being expressed on his program. But I also didn’t want to close the door to the possibility that the pushback from the administration would eventually get him to make a change. (Anyone who has been following Tucker’s program in the weeks since January 11 knows that, so far, there hasn’t been any such change.) On February 3, Tucker wrote to me asking if he could speak at the first Israeli National Conservatism Conference (NatCon), which is scheduled to be held in Jerusalem on June 8-10. I was taken aback that he would ask for something like that, given the content of our conversation two days earlier. But I did my best to draft a reply that would reinforce my previous description of what a great many Jews, Israelis, and Zionist Christians think of Tucker right now. Here’s what I wrote in response to his request to speak at the first NatCon conference in Israel: "Tucker, I appreciate the offer. But I need people to show up at this event. Realistically, Jews and Zionist Christians are not going to share a platform with you or come to hear you under the current circumstances. I’m just speaking descriptively about the situation: Much of the lineup will revolt if you join the program and that story will blow back on you [and other public figures] in addition to blowing up the conference. If you want to change this situation, there are things you can do unilaterally to shift the dynamic and I think that’s the way to move forward." I thought Tucker had finally gotten the message that he should stop asking me for favors, and instead consider how he could make unilateral changes that would help people get past the impression that he is one of the leading Jew-haters of our generation. But then on February 9, he wrote to ask me if I would set up a meeting for him with Prime Minister Netanyahu. I’m not sure why he thought I was the right address for that request. But I knew very well that if someone were going to contact the Prime Minister’s office with such a misguided idea, it wasn’t going to be me. Here’s what I wrote in reply to his request that I arrange a meeting for him with Bibi: "I don’t see how that could happen. It doesn’t serve any interest I’m aware of. It could only damage him." This was a perfectly honest answer, and Tucker could have thanked me for giving him my honest assessment of the situation he has created. But Tucker wasn’t happy with it, and he typed an agitated little speech into his phone to indicate that our conversation had come to an end. On February 20, Tucker released a peevish summary of the contacts between us as part of a wild video in which he also suggested that Israel might be trying to kill him and his family. That’s the story. I’ll just add one comment. Most of what I do in public life is building coalitions. That means I talk to a lot of people who don’t agree with me on all sorts of things, and sometimes that means meeting with people who don’t like me very much. I have these in-person, off-the-record conversations because often people turn out to be quite different in private. Sometimes, I’ve just misunderstood who they are from their public appearances. Sometimes, I’ve understood very well who they are, but it turns out they are willing to explore the possibility of making a change. And also: Even when nothing else comes of it, I learn a tremendous amount about people from these private conversations. In Tucker’s case, the private person turns out to be exactly who we’ve been seeing in public. As of now, I’m not seeing any sign that he is willing to play ball with the mainstream nationalist camp in the Republican party, much less that he has any regrets about who and what he has become since leaving Fox News in 2023. Whatever his motives for turning his podcast into what seems to be a circus of anti-Jewish messaging, right now that project is clearly more important to him than helping the administration keep its coalition together so it can govern effectively and win elections in 2026 and 2028.

A few points about this infographic: 1) The bread you eat is safe. Trace detections do not impact health. 2) Glyphosate is not a carcinogen. It is as critical to American agriculture as antibiotics are to American medicine. 3) Even at the highest level in this infographic, an adult would have to eat about 600 loaves of bread in a day to meet the allowable daily level. 4) And since God already gave you the best detox system ever — your kidneys — glyphosate does not accumulate in your body. This means you can have your morning toast every day for the next billion years without any chronic health effects from glyphosate. 5) It is time for a national discussion about this topic. I am not exaggerating about the impact that this is having on American food security, food prices and the environment.

The Bolsheviks killed over 60 million Christians between 1917-1946. Why aren't children taught that in school? 🤔

Rosaria Butterfield on the inevitability of the patriarchy: "The Bible teaches biblical patriarchy, also called complementarianism. I use those two terms as synonyms because I believe they are. My support of patriarchy did not come easily or because I suddenly started to believe that men were good. 'No man is good' Psalm 53:1-3 declares and Romans 3:10 restates. But because men are evil and not good, we need godly men, men who have committed their lives to Jesus and who live under the authority of a true Bible-believing church to protect their families, their churches, and their neighborhoods from the dangerous droves of wolves. If you look at women's sports today, you look at drag queen story hour, you look at all this nonsense, you are going to see something—men are going to be in charge, whether it's men gyrating in front of five year-olds in the library or it's godly men who lead this university and your churches. It's not which, it's not whether men are going to be in charge. It's which men you want in charge. We need more warrior pastors, warrior Christian presidents. The droves of vile and perverse ideas that are out there are sickening. We need protection from that. We cannot go to war against the very solution God gives us."

Tucker, I was at Gaza last week. I don’t recall seeing you there. You also claimed there was NO Christian persecution in Nigeria. I was there, too, and saw it. Were you? No. You’ve become a shameless propagandist.

@MikeCosper @philvischer Problem being is that you know nothing about what you are talking about. You mix in big sounding words to try and cover up that fact. Yes, there are aspects of the right that are problematic, but the socialist Muslim loving left is the problem. Butterfield understands that fact.

I think a lot of folks are misunderstanding me so I want to clarify. My point is not "let's meet in the middle." Frankly my point is not to defend @philvischer , who can certainly do that for himself should he choose to. My point is to say this framing seeks to sweep away concerns about polarization by saying that Christianity has no business partnering with the far left. But the polarization problem for Christians isn't about the far left. It's about the far right, and how it's lost its touch with reality. It's about a party that's abandoned ethical principles, like the pro-life cause (See RFK's work on the abortion pill) and human dignity (See ICE and CBP tactics on the streets) and a general sense of dignity for its leaders and the way they speak, or our relationships with our allies, or our historic and rightful hostility to regimes that demean human dignity (Russia and China). The point people like me are making — and there are many others — is not "MEET IN THE MIDDLE." It's rediscover core principles of conservatism. Human dignity being the key one. Freedom, of religion, of trade, of speech. The idea of America as a refuge for people fleeing tyranny. Sure restrict immigration, but can persecuted religious minorities, including Christians, not come here and take part in America's promises? That's been a hallmark since before the founding. Read Washington's letters to the synagogues after his inauguration. A repulsion at today's right is not coddling the left, no matter what ghouls on Twitter will tell you. it's a clear sense that the right has abandoned foundational principles, and that's why I find this so disingenuous. I am not calling Butterfield stupid by any means. I know she's not. I am saying "She's better than this." But I think she's playing to a crowd. and as life goes, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I suppose congratulations on whatever accolades she gets for this. But I don't buy for a minute she wholeheartedly believes it.

I look high. Lol.

I am going to frame this. It should be painted on buildings in every town, city & state in America.

Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to secretly retrieve US made Stinger Missiles that the State Dept had supplied to Ansar al Sharia in Libya WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission. Sec State Hillary Clinton had brokered the Libya deal through Ambassador Stevens and a Private Arms Dealer named Marc Turi, but some of the shoulder fired Stinger Missiles ended up in Afghanistan where they were used against our own military. On July 25th, 2012, a US Chinook helicopter was downed by one of them. Not destroyed only because the idiot Taliban didn't arm the missile. The helicopter didn't explode, but it had to land and an ordnance team recovered the missile’s serial number which led back to a cache of Stinger Missiles kept in Qatar by the CIA. Obama and Hillary were in full panic mode, so Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to retrieve the rest of the Stinger Missiles. This was a "do-or-die" mission, which explains the Stand Down Orders given to multiple rescue teams during the siege of the US Embassy. It was the State Dept, NOT the CIA, that supplied the Stinger Missiles to our sworn enemies because Gen. Petraeus at CIA would not approve supplying the deadly missiles due to their potential use against commercial aircraft. So then, Obama threw Gen. Petraeus under the bus when he refused to testify in support of Obama’s phony claim of a “spontaneous uprising caused by a YouTube video that insulted Muslims.” Obama and Hillary committed TREASON! THIS is what the investigation is all about, WHY she had a Private Server, (in order to delete the digital evidence), and WHY Obama, two weeks after the attack, told the UN that the attack was the result of the YouTube video, even though everyone KNEW it was not. Furthermore, the Taliban knew that the administration had aided and abetted the enemy WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission, so they began pressuring (blackmailing) the Obama Administration to release five Taliban generals being held at Guantanamo. Bowe Bergdahl was just a useful pawn used to cover the release of the Taliban generals. Everyone knew Bergdahl was a traitor but Obama used Bergdahl’s exchange for the five Taliban generals to cover that Obama was being coerced by the Taliban about the unauthorized Stinger Missile deal. So we have a traitor as POTUS that is not only corrupt, but compromised, as well and a Sec of State that is a serial liar, who perjured herself multiple times at the Congressional Hearings on Benghazi. Perhaps this is why no military aircraft were called upon for help in Benghazi: because the administration knew that our enemies had Stinger Missiles that, if used to down those planes, would likely be traced back to the CIA cache in Qatar and then to the State Dept’s illegitimate arms deal in Libya.

I’m happy to say the very first RCT on a primarily carnivorous beef based diet has been funded and will commence shortly! I’ve been pushing for this to happen for years and it’s finally happening. This will be the first of many!! (Thanks NCBA, Texas, Nebraska, and South Dakota cattleman and a few more donors) clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07269…

Steak with his butter? Uh, no. Fry the damn steak in butter. Then put plenty of butter on the potato(e) to be safe.

Presidential Election Ballots counted after Election Day… 2012 Dem: 60% GOP: 38% 2016: Dem: 60% GOP: 38% 2020: Dem: 65% GOP: 30% 2024: Dem: 55% GOP: 35% We haven’t had a legitimate election in decades. 2020 was stolen and everyone knows it. All the Democrats do is cheat.

@FDGenetics Merry Christmas!

Hope you all have a blessed Christmas!!!

In his Turning Point speech, Tucker Carlson says Republicans should see Muslims as political allies. This. Is. Authentic. Islam. Muslims aren’t a religious denomination like Baptists or Lutherans. They are adherents to an evil ideology more like Nazism.

Wow! What foul language from a woman (role model) who should be using her influence to help young people. The last thing Black Americans need is to heed this evil advice. We don’t need a bomb thrower to stoke division. There has been a rift between black leaders and Jews ever since the advent of affirmative action and racial quotas. I’m sorry that @prageru platformed this woman. She used Jews to build her brand. @RealCandaceO @benshapiro @TPUSA #Blacks #Jews

@conservmillen You should be. 😀 Best and most accurate interpretation of scripture.

I’m not a dispensationalist, and everyone should watch the whole clip. Thanks!

@LarryTaunton @elonmusk

X sent me this email. Apparently pointing out that “Congresswoman Sarah” is really Congressman Tim who is hellbent on mutilating children is against X rules. The old regime is still in charge at X. Free speech, @elonmusk? I think not.

It’s a great quotation, but there is no record of Sun Tzu ever saying this. But Starmer is a POS.

My friend @ericmetaxas is 100% correct about Tucker Carlson.

Of course he evades the main point. Giving a happy-clappy interview to someone who thinks Hitler & Stalin are cool was EVIL. I've met people who suffered hell in the Death Camps & Gulags. To pretend this is about "debate" & "free speech" is a diabolical twisting of those ideas.