By: Alisha Rodriguez
Donald Trump detractors didn’t seem to be too happy about what the former President had to say about Tucker Carlson upon the prime-time star’s abrupt departure from Fox News on Monday.
“Well, I’m shocked, I’m surprised,” Trump told Newsmax’s Greg Kelly during an interview at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. “He’s a very good person and a very good man and very talented, and as you know he had very high ratings.”
Liberal news outlet Huffington Post reported on his kids words of Tucker by noting that he said them of the “host who frequently pushed racist, misogynistic and xenophobic talking points on his show. Trump described Carlson as ‘terrific’ and gushed: ‘He’s been, especially over the last year or so, he’s been terrific to me’.”
The outlet continued by calling attention to Carlson for his coverage of certain controversial issues, as well as revealing private text messages of the host brought into evidence by Dominion in their lawsuit against Fox News:
On air, Carlson pushed Trump’s 2020 election lies and minimized the U.S. Capitol riot.
In private messages made public in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox, though, Carlson expressed his contempt for the former president.
“We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights,” Carlson wrote in a January 2021 text, adding: “I hate him passionately.”
Carlson interviewed Trump earlier this month as one of his final sit-downs.
https://republicbrief.com/donald-trump-responds-to-tucker-carlsons-departure-from-fox-news/