Mod: The MAGA world is a very sad place where nobody loves one another.Tucker Carlson said he hates Trump ‘passionately’ (link): Fox News host Tucker Carlson privately expressed contempt for former President Trump in text messages revealed in court filings as part of the network’s ongoing legal fight with Dominion Voting Systems.
“We are very very close to being able to ignore
Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait,”
Carlson wrote in one text to an unidentified
Fox employee on
Jan. 4, 2021, according to the filing. “I hate him passionately, I blew up at
Peter Navarro today in frustration. I actually like
Peter. But I can’t handle much more of this.”
Carlson’s text were included in a series of exhibits contained in new filings made by Dominion as part of its $1.6 billion lawsuit for defamation against Fox. Dominion has accused Fox of knowingly airing false claims about the company being spun by Trump and his allies.
Fox has so far argued to have the case dismissed on
First Amendment grounds and accused
Dominion of cherry picking quotes from its top talent and executives to build a stronger case in court.
As part of its new filings on Tuesday, Dominion also alleged Rupert Murdoch, owner and co-chairman of Fox Corp, wrote to Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott that top hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham“went too far” in endorsing former President Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election.
Murdoch has, in pervious internal communications and depositions with
Dominion’s lawyers acknowledged that
Trump’s claims were false. A trial in the case is expected to begin in
April.
‘Just a lie’: Senate Republicans blast Tucker Carlson’s Jan. 6 narrative (
The Washington Postlink):
Senate Republicans blasted
Fox News on Tuesday for airing a show that twisted details of the
January 2021 attack on the
U.S. Capitol into a conspiracy-fueled narrative, breaking ranks with
House GOP colleagues who cheered on the show.
From
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to rank-and-file lawmakers,
Republican senators largely rejected
Fox personality
Tucker Carlson’s vision of the deadly insurrection as a mostly peaceful protest that involved little violence.
Appearing at his weekly news conference, McConnell denounced the leadership of the conservative cable network for airing the entertainer’s vision of the assault on the Capitol, holding up a letter from U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger that accused Carlson’s show of being “filled with offensive and misleading conclusions.”
“It was a mistake, in my view, for
Fox News to depict this in a way that’s completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here in the
Capitol thinks,”
McConnell told reporters.
Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), once a vocal supporter of former president Donald Trump who has consistently denounced the attack, was blunt in his assessment of Carlson’s narrative: “To somehow put (Jan. 6) in the same category as a permitted peaceful protest is just a lie.”
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