{"id":23888,"date":"2026-04-30T06:50:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/democrat-invokes-tucker-carlson-megyn-kelly-candace-owens-in-heated-hearing\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T06:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:50:25","slug":"democrat-invokes-tucker-carlson-megyn-kelly-candace-owens-in-heated-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/democrat-invokes-tucker-carlson-megyn-kelly-candace-owens-in-heated-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Invokes Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens In Heated Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative\" data-narration-container=\"true\">\n<p>A Democratic congresswoman highlighted criticism of President Donald Trump from podcasters Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Candace Owens while questioning War Secretary Pete Hegseth during a fiery committee hearing on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) asked Hegseth if he believes Trump \u201cis mentally stable enough to be the commander-in-chief\u201d and brought up a number of former Trump-supporting podcasters who are now questioning the president\u2019s mental acuity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, many, many Republicans have had the same questions,\u201d Jacobs said. \u201cMarjorie Taylor Greene said he\u2019s out of control and he\u2019s gone insane. Candace Owens said the 25th Amendment needs to be invoked \u2014 Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, who you used to work with, Alex Jones, Stephanie Grisham, the list could go on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth dismissed Jacobs\u2019 question and ripped Democrats for raising questions on Trump\u2019s ability to lead after the party turned a blind eye to issues around former President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you ask the same question of Joe Biden for four years?\u201d Hegseth shot back. \u201cYou did not, and I won\u2019t even engage with the level of disparagement that you\u2019re putting on the commander-in-chief \u2026 he\u2019s the sharpest and most insightful commander-in-chief we\u2019ve had in generations. And you want to ask that question after you and your fellow Democrats defended Joe Biden, who could barely speak and didn\u2019t know what day of the week it was. He governed with an autopen. You had a secretary of defense who went AWOL for a week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"aspect-ratio:16\/9;max-width:100%;width:100%;margin:20px auto 5px;border:0\" src=\"https:\/\/player.mux.com\/wk00Wi7eYHJt3xm7TsGYPoUKIbc201MWXv?metadata-video-content-type=embed_video&amp;metadata-video-id=991c8a03-a2fb-4ee7-b6a4-641bbb0ba42d&amp;metadata-video-stream-type=on-demand&amp;metadata-video-title=Democrat%20Invokes%20Tucker%20Carlson%2C%20Megyn%20Kelly%2C%20Candace%20Owens%20&amp;poster=https%3A%2F%2Fdailywireplus-v2.imgix.net%2Fimages%2Fembedded-videos%2Fde2bee5a-a85a-44e4-867a-f20892c8e0a1.png&amp;autoplay=false&amp;accent-color=%23DB3D3B&amp;primary-color=%23ffffff&amp;secondary-color=%23000000\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The heated exchange took place during a House Armed Services Committee hearing, where Hegseth and Gen. Dan \u201cRazin\u201d Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, faced questions about the ongoing war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The war has enraged Democrats and podcasters who used to support Trump \u2014 like Carlson, Kelly, and Owens \u2014 who have ramped up their criticism of Trump in recent weeks. Carlson, who recently apologized for endorsing Trump in 2024, has repeatedly accused Trump of conducting the military operation in Iran at Israel\u2019s bidding. He also claimed earlier this month that Trump was considering using a weapon of mass destruction \u201con the population of Iran.\u201d Kelly has also claimed that Trump is being played by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and said the president is \u201ctoo weak\u201d and \u201ctoo gullible\u201d to push back on Israel\u2019s demands.<\/p>\n<p>Owens, meanwhile, has called the Trump administration \u201csatanic\u201d and referred to Trump as a \u201cMad King,\u201d while urging the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove the president from office.<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-goes-nuclear-on-tucker-megyn-and-candace?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=11&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Goes+Nuclear+On+Tucker%2C+Megyn%2C+And+Candace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blasted<\/a> the podcasters earlier this month, calling them \u201cnut jobs,\u201d \u201ctroublemakers,\u201d and \u201cstupid people.\u201d The president also pointed out that the podcasters are being hailed by the Left for their opposition to his administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese so-called \u2018pundits\u2019 are LOSERS, and they always will be! Now Fake News CNN, The Failing New York Times, and all of the other Radical Left \u2018News\u2019 Organizations, are \u2018hailing\u2019 them, and giving them \u2018positive\u2019 press for the first time in their lives,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThey\u2019re not \u2018MAGA,\u2019 they\u2019re losers, just trying to latch on to MAGA.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/democrat-invokes-tucker-carlson-megyn-kelly-candace-owens-in-heated-hearing\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Democratic congresswoman highlighted criticism of President Donald Trump from podcasters Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Candace Owens while questioning War Secretary Pete Hegseth during a fiery committee hearing on Wednesday. Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) asked Hegseth if he believes Trump \u201cis mentally stable enough to be the commander-in-chief\u201d and brought up a number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}