Political analyst Tucker Carlson speaks at the Turning Point Action U.S.A. conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, on July 15, 2023.
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Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson stated he will talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin, ending up being the very first member of the Western media to talk to the Russian leader given that the nation’s intrusion of Ukraine practically 2 years earlier.
“Most Americans have no idea why Putin invaded Ukraine or what his goals are now. … Americans have a right to know all they can about a war they’re implicated in and we have the right to tell them about it,” Carlson stated in a Tuesday video published on social networks website X from Moscow.
Carlson, who left Fox News in 2023 after the network’s record $787 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, has actually slammed U.S. assistance for the war in Ukraine and has actually formerly propped up Putin.
“Why is Vladimir Putin such a bad guy? He’s not Saddam Hussein, he’s not Adolf Hitler, he’s not a danger to the United States,” Carlson stated in 2017.
Following Russia’s intrusion of Ukraine, Tucker questioned American help for the war effort. He likewise incorrectly declared that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine is an authoritarian leader.
“Zelenskyy has no interest in freedom and democracy. In fact, Zelenskyy is far closer to Lenin than to George Washington. He is a dictator. He is a dangerous authoritarian who has used a hundred billion in U.S. tax dollars to erect a one-party police state in Ukraine,” Carlson stated in 2022.
The reactionary analyst’s interview with Putin will be launched on X and the media start-up TuckerCarlson com.
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