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.”
Carlson replied: “All of them fail. What he’s good at is destroying things. He’s the undisputed world champion of that. He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong. It’s so obvious.”
The cable TV station’s billionaire co-founder Rupert Murdoch also derided Trump according to material included in the Dominion legal filing.
The Post reported:
In a Nov. 19, 2020, email, Rupert Murdoch appears to describe Trump and Rudy Giuliani as “both increasingly mad.”
He adds of Trump: “The real danger is what he might do as president. Apparently not sleeping and bouncing off walls! Don’t know about Melania, but kids no help.”
In his deposition, Murdoch not only disputed Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was stolen, but he also agreed when asked whether Trump was a “sore loser.” …
After Jan. 6, Murdoch also mused about Trump’s fading away, asking former House speaker and Fox Corp. board member Paul Ryan, “Could he still resign and get Pence to pardon, then just disappear?”
And just think only hours ago Trump was praising Carlson for his Jan. 6 propaganda show.
On his social media platform Truth Social, Trump wrote:
"Congratulations to Tucker Carlson on one of the biggest "scoops" as a reporter in U.S. history. The New Surveillance Footage of the January 6th Events sheds an entirely different light on what actually happened. The Unselect Committee was a giant SCAM, and has now unequivocally been stamped as CRIMINAL FABRICATORS OF THIS MOST IMPORTANT DAY."