Tucker Carlson Mused About 'Threatening People' to Stop Fox News' Negative Trump Coverage,
2020 Texts Reveal
In Jan. 2021, Tucker Carlson told a Fox News colleague that he hated Donald Trump passionately. But less than two months earlier he was singing a dramatically different tune, newly leaked texts reveal.
In an exchange with his senior producer, obtained by the Daily Beast (yes, its yet more leaked evidence that emerged during discovery in the Dominion defamation lawsuit against Fox News), the recently fired host was so upset about the unusually negative coverage Fox was giving Trump that he said he was happy to start threating people to make it stop.
The text exchange happened Nov. 19, 2020, as Fox News was suffering a severe drop in ratings caused by the exodus of viewers angry that it had accurately called the election for Joe Biden and then temporarily refused to support Trumps constant lying about the loss.
The day before, Fox had published this story about Trumps decision to hold the annual presidential pardon of a turkey. The articles opening paragraph noted this was happening, despite the angst surrounding the growing number of coronavirus cases nationwide and the ongoing upheaval over President Trumps refusal to concede the election.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tucker-carlson-mused-threatening-people-041248337.html
Tuckems embraces his inner fascist.