The US has compromised its national interests by waging wars on Israel’s behalf, conservative journalist and podcaster Tucker Carlson told RT’s Olga Bataman and Tara Reade.

In the latest episode of East Meets West with Olga and Tara, aired on Wednesday, Carlson accused President Donald Trump of betraying his voters by launching an “immoral” attack on Iran alongside Israel in late February. He added that the war forced him to abandon his support for Trump and the Republican Party.

The US president “did precisely what he said he would never do, and he did it at the behest of Israel,” Carlson said.

“Trump got into this war because he was pushed by Israel. I saw that happen. I’m not guessing. That’s not anti-Semitism. That’s a fact. I was disgusted by it, as I think most Americans were,” he said, adding that dissident Republicans, including Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie, were “driven out” of the party.

Carlson, once a close friend of Trump, said he warned him that Israel is exploiting the US to achieve “regional hegemony,” adding that the Iran war is “terrible for the United States and bad for the world.”

“I think America lost its sovereignty many years ago. The CIA and Mossad have worked together – in some cases, really as one – for over 60 years,” Carlson said.

“There is a long track record of the United States and its 350 million people being misused by Israeli intelligence.”

Carlson claimed that Israel fed the US false intelligence that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction in order to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and that Israel sold Trump “the lie” that killing Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei would trigger the collapse of the Iranian government.

Although Trump has denied that he entered the war with Iran solely because of Israel, he said in a recent interview, “Israel would have been blown up a long time ago had I not got involved.”