Tucker Carlson slammed his former Fox News colleague Jennifer Griffin as ‘the deepest of the deep state’ as he continued to hammer at his former employers over their coverage of the Israel-Iran war. The former Fox News host had briefly feuded with both the president and engaged in a viral showdown with Senator Ted Cruz over America’s support for Israel’s war on the Iranian nuclear program.

As Trump announced a ceasefire – one Carlson reacted to by tweeting: ‘Thank God’ – he released an episode of his show where he continued to question his ex-employers coverage, zeroing in on Griffin, the network’s Chief National Security Correspondent.

‘Jennifer Griffin is, even by the standards of Pentagon employees, she’s not technically an employee of the Pentagon. She’s a shill, obviously, for the deepest of the deep states. But she’s like a parody. She’s like parody. It’s like the whole thing,’ Carlson said.

Carlson and fellow former Fox host Clayton Morris joked about Griffin’s water-carrying for the ‘deep state.’ ‘The crazy thing is Jen Griffin is a liar, but also very liberal, true Trump hater, to the point where I complained about her and I really tried not to complain about other people at Fox when I worked there,’ he said. ‘She was discrediting the channel, she was such a Trump hatter, and it was emotional.’

He even went to one of his superiors at the network and suggested Griffin wasn’t helping. Carlson said he asked: ‘She’s an idiot. She doesn’t tell the truth. She misleads our viewers. And she’s like a screaming liberal who hates Trump, who our viewers love. So what are we getting out of this?’ The response he got from the network was that ‘you could not touch Jennifer Griffin.’

Morris noted that Griffin (pictured) has an office at the Pentagon, suggesting she may be presenting bias in her coverage based on how close to her sources she is. Fox News did not respond to a DailyMail.com request for comment. Carlson posted to X after the ceasefire was revealed by Trump, stating simply: ‘Thank God.’ 

He then posted a new episode of his talk show with an additional note slamming his former Fox News colleague Mark Levin (pictured). ‘Thank God Trump brokered a ceasefire. That’s the last thing Mark Levin wanted.’ Levin had also been clapping back at Carlson all week and suggested he was acting on behalf of the Qatari government.

It caps an interesting week for the conservative host where he criticized Trump’s support for were initially just Israeli strikes in Iran, noting in a newsletter that ‘many in Trump’s MAGA movement are not happy.’ ‘US says it was “not involved,”‘ Carlson wrote. ‘That’s not true. Trump is complicit in an act of war.’ Both Carlson and former political strategist Steve Bannon appeared on each other’s podcasts sharing their growing alarm that the president was launching another ‘forever war’ in the Middle East.

The president bristled at Carlson’s criticism, dismissing his comments at the G7 Summit in Canada. ‘I don’t know what Tucker Carlson is saying, let him go get a television network and say it so the people listen,’ Trump said. Shortly afterward, the president fired back at Carlson on social media. ‘Somebody please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that IRAN CAN NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON,’ Trump wrote.

The former host was spectacularly fired from the news network in April 2023 and started his own independent network. Trump revealed that Carlson had called him after the president called him out as ‘kooky’ on Monday and taunted him for not being on cable television anymore. ‘Tucker’s a nice guy. He called and apologized the other day because he thought he said things that were a little bit too strong and I appreciated that,’ Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday.