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Previous Guy skips the GOP debate because Tucker Carlson sticks a finger in the Murdoch eye [1]

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Date: 2023-08-18

Because it’s Biden’s fault? Ratings will be better somewhere as Trump skips the GOP debate next week, because he’s doing so well.

But remember, every person on the GOP debate stage has promised to support Trump for President if he is nominated -- as current polls suggest he will be. https://t.co/dmgqrP93F5

BREAKING: Trump has decided to skip the first GOP primary debate on Wednesday, instead opting to do an online interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. This is a huge slap in the face to both the Republican National Committee and to Fox News, which is hosting the event.

I knew Donald Trump would chicken out on the debate. Fox must be even more furious with Tucker Carlson now. pic.twitter.com/rkW5vTQOZE

When Fox News host Tucker Carlson defended Russian President Vladimir Putin on his program, his viewers may not have imagined it would be used by Russian state television to help bolster that country's case for attacking Ukraine. But that is exactly what happened.

Carlson spent a number of segments criticizing U.S. President Joe Biden and the Ukrainian government, and then often defending Putin, clips that have become fodder for Russian television. On Feb. 17, 2022, for example, he said:

And of course, they're promoting war, not to maintain the democracy that is Ukraine. Ukraine is not a democracy. It has never been a democracy in its history and it's not now. It's a client state of the Biden administration. It's a place in which opposition media and opposition political candidates are completely shut down by the government. Is not a democracy at all. And it's insulting they would suggest otherwise.

That same clip was aired on Russia 1, a state television channel, with a translation.

ORT or Channel 1 Russia, broadcast a clip of Carlson in which he showed U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal telling MSNBC about the need to supply missiles to Ukraine. The clip cuts to Carlson laughing and saying, “So that guy, who lied about his own war service, is pretty excited at the thought of Ukrainians fighting and dying in the streets.”

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