Whistleblower: Americans Are Being Murdered While Trump Does Nothing and the Media Cover-up Grows

**Tucker Carlson** (0:00)
The most shocking part of the story of the USS Liberty, the American ship bombed by the Israeli government back during the Six Day War in 1967, is not simply the facts of the case. 34 Americans murdered by the Israelis, 171 wounded, bombed, strafed with machine gun fire, et cetera. That's a tragedy and it's shocking. But the most shocking part of the story is that the US government, beginning with the then president, Lyndon Johnson, covered it up, prevented the survivors from talking about it, prevented the public from knowing that it even happened. That's ongoing, by the way. American officials still refuse to talk about what happened to the USS Liberty, by and large, with some exceptions.
So that's the part of the story that really makes you wonder what is going on here. It's one thing for a foreign country, foreign government, to murder your citizens. That does happen.
But the idea that your own government would take the side of the foreign nation as it murders your people, the people your government is in charge of caring for, that is really stunning. And you have to ask why. Well, in some cases, of course, just a product of evil intent. There are bad people in positions of power. But for the most part, it's not active evil, it's passive evil. It's the result of moral cowardice. It's more painful to take the side of your own people than it is the side of a foreign government. Therefore, you take the side of a foreign government. That's just the truth about the way most people are, unfortunately. So, as you think about that, you think about the depth of the betrayal involved in the aftermath of the USS Liberty murders, you think, well, that couldn't possibly happen now. Well, in fact, it is happening now, right now. More than a dozen American citizens have been murdered in pogroms in the occupied territories that Israel controls, the West Bank.
They've been murdered by Israelis, mostly Israeli settlers, the ones conducting these pogroms, armed by the US government carrying American rifles. If you think the term pogrom is too strong, you don't know the details of what's happening there. Israeli settlers, many of them American citizens, carrying American weapons, murdering the local population. Palestinians, some of whom, more than a dozen of whom, have been American, and by the way, who are prohibited from defending themselves. They cannot carry weapons, of course. Palestinians can't carry weapons on their own land, but Israeli settlers who seek to steal that land can. So these pogroms have been ongoing, of course, but most Americans have no idea that American citizens have been murdered during the course of them, and they have no idea because the media, by and large, don't report it, and American officials have no interest in talking about it.
So we want to bring you a very specific story of a young American man, and by American we mean literally American, born in the United States, worked at his family's ice cream shop in Tampa, who was murdered last summer in July of 2025 in the West Bank. He was murdered attempting to go to land that his family owns, has a deed to, not owns in some conceptual sense, but literally owns. And he was killed by settlers, none of whom have ever been punished for that crime. And under normal circumstances, we would give long monologue about why this is bad, of course, it's self-evidently bad and what it means. But we've just conducted two of the most extraordinary interviews we've done in a long time, one with the father of the boy who was murdered, and another with an American journalist who works for a Christian and Catholic publication, who was effectively prevented from talking about this entire topic, who was censored on behalf of the Israeli government in the United States.
So these two interviews answer at least two questions. The first is what is happening, you may not know the details, with your money in your name to your fellow citizens in a foreign land. And the second is why haven't you heard about this? Why is there effectively a media blackout on the details, not a total media blackout. In fact, we're about to play you a clip from CNN, which to their credit they did, about the murder last summer of the boy from Florida. But by and large, the American media do not report on the details of these crimes, these pogroms. Why is that? And the second interview with the former editor from this Catholic publication gives you a sense of just how the news coverage is shut down at the level of the news organization, what the censorship looks like within the newsroom. And so we want to frame the first interview we're about to bring you with that clip we just mentioned from CNN, which has video in it that you may not have seen, but this is something worth watching. What you're about to see is video of the father, accompanied by a news crew, attempting to go to the place where his son was beaten to death during these pogroms. Watch.