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As President Trump edges toward involvement in the Israel-Iran war, some of his longtime supporters in right-wing media are questioning his judgment.

President Trump’s growing support for the Israeli attack on Iran has created a divide among his usual allies in the right-wing media world — one that has not gone unnoticed by the White House.

In interviews posted on Monday, Tucker Carlson and Stephen K. Bannon warned Mr. Trump against American military involvement in the Middle East, invoking the specter of the Iraq war. “I am really afraid that my country is going to be further weakened by this,” Mr. Carlson said on Mr. Bannon’s “War Room” podcast. “I think we are going to see the end of American empire.”

The president dismissed those comments by needling Mr. Carlson about his ouster from Fox News. “I don’t know what Tucker Carlson is saying,” Mr. Trump said at the Group of 7 summit

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