Tucker Carlson blasts 'filthy and decadent' Trump aides on Twitter who exploited his need for flattery

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailTucker Carlson, the fired Fox News host who now broadcasts on Twitter, hit out at aides to former President Donald Trump who he claims prayed on his susceptiblity to flattery to gain power and subvert his political agenda. Carlson’s rant against the likes of former Vice President Mike Pence, former secretary to the United Nations Nikki Haley, and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo came on the day Mr Trump was arraigned on 37 felony counts for mishandling classified documents after the conclusion of his presidency and impeding government efforts to get them back.“The stealthier ones took another path: they ran towards Trump, not away from him,” Carlson said in his social media monologue. “They sucked up to him. They ingratied themselves to a man they intuitively understood was susceptible to flattery, which Trump is, and they did this to subvert Trump’s administration from the inside.”Carlson, who was fired by Fox News earlier this year and has been sued along with the network for promoting a hostile work environment by a former employee, then upped his rhetoric. “They
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