Tucker Carlson was reportedly detained at an airport in Israel on Wednesday afternoon. However, the U.S. Embassy quickly denied that claim.
“Men who identified themselves as airport security took our passports, hauled our executive producer into a side room and then demanded to know what we spoke to Ambassador Huckabee about,” Tucker Carlson told the Mail. “It was bizarre. We’re now out of the country.”
After that report went viral, the U.S. Embassy in Israel denied that Tucker Carlson had been detained. It argued that he “received the same passport control questions that countless visitors to Israel” encounter.
“It is not accurate that Israel only was going to let Tucker into the country for the interview,” the Embassy’s statement said. “The only engagement the Embassy had with Israel about his visit was to coordinate his private plane landing as part of facilitating a seamless visit. It was Tucker who chose to only come into the country for a few hours and depart. And Tucker received the same positive treatment of any visitors to Israel.”
Other media figures investigating the claims from Tucker Carlson said their sources agreed with the U.S. Embassy, stating that several members of Carlson’s party were not questioned at all, and that all figures were allowed to board their planes without issue.
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