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Off-camera Tucker Carlson actually confessed: 'I hate Trump passionately' [1]
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Date: 2023-03-07
OMG. Tucker Carlson actually said something I can agree with. In a private text message, Carlson derided the former president, saying “I hate Trump passionately.”
Carlson’s text message to an unidentified Fox employee was revealed in a court filing released late Tuesday by Dominion Voting Systems as part of its $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News.
The Washington Post reported:
Two days before Jan. 6, Carlson texted someone, “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait.” He added, “I hate him passionately,” and then, of Trump’s four years in office: “We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest. But come on. There really isn’t an upside to Trump.”
Carlson’s remarks off-camera are particularly striking because it came a day after the Fox host started airing selectively edited security camera footage that misrepresented and downplayed what happened in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Carlson described the events that day as “mostly peaceful chaos.”
The clips were selected from the 44,000 hours of security camera footage from Jan. 6 that Carlson was granted exclusive access to by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. It was apparently part of the deal McCarthy made to secure the votes from House Republications that he needed to win the speakership.
In another exchange released by Dominion, someone tells Carlson: “One [sic] the bright side — Trump has a pretty low rate at success in his business ventures.”
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