Good Luck Tuck
When the electronic cameras stop rolling, the pro-Trump expert exposes his contempt for Fox audiences’ preferred political leader
New text launched through Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit versus Fox News expose simply just how much Tucker Carlson disliked Donald Trump and his allies, in spite of openly going to the mat for the previous president’s election lies.
“I hate him passionately,” Carlson composed in a text to an unidentified recipient 2 days prior to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, “I can’t manage far more of this.”
In one exchange Carlson calls Trump legal representative Sidney Powell, who was consistently brought on the network as a visitor to promote election conspiracies a “lying fucking bitch.” In another, he concurs with an unnamed sender who mentions that there’s no “proof of citizen scams that swung the election,” which there’s “definitely no proof the election was taken. “Yep. All real,” Carlson responded.
Carlson torched the whole of the Trump administration, writing that while “we’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to reveal for it, due to the fact that confessing what a catastrophe it’s been is too hard to absorb. But come on. There isn’t actually an advantage to Trump.” In a different exhibition filing launched recently, Carlson called the previous president a “demonic” force.
In another text exchange Carlson and fellow primetime hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham berate the “news” side of the network as “useless” for pressing back versus the election declares being aired by the network’s “viewpoint” anchors. At one point Carlson requires that Fox’s White House reporter Jacqui Heinrich be fired after she publicly fact checked the network’s election claims. “Why would we permit some 27 years of age phony press reporter to damage our network,” Carlson composes. Hannity suggests that he forwarded the problem to network CEO Suzanne Scott.
Despite the personal criticism leveled by Carlson versus Trump, the Fox host publicly carried water for Trump’s election lies, and still does to this day. On Monday night, Carlson started a multi-day Jan. 6 propaganda blitz by telling his audience that the “2020 election was a severe betrayal of American democracy provided the truths that have actually because emerged about that election. No sincere individual can reject it.”
Through the Dominion suit, Fox News’ well cultivated culture of blatantly lying to their audience might return to bite them in the wallet. The network deals with more than a billion dollars in possible claims ought to things break them. But the truth is that the hosts at the center of Fox’s spin device most likely won’t deal with any direct repercussions. In the words of Ingraham to Carlson and Hannity, “I believe the 3 people have huge power…more power than we understand or work out.”