The pretaped interview reportedly almost didn’t happen, and we’ve noticed scant promotion around an event that’s seemingly meant to draw eyes away from the inaugural GOP debate.
It’s fairly clear why Carlson and Trump would be at least interested in participating in anything that could pull viewers away from the Fox News debate. For one, Trump, the heavy favorite in the Republican presidential field, has little to gain by participating in a debate where he’d likely face tough questions about his mounting legal problems. He said as much in June,that he does not want to waste an evening taking blows from candidates who are polling at “1 or 2% and 0%.
Still, Carlson and Trump have had a rocky year in light of a series of Carlson’s text messages from January 2021 that were released as part of the lawsuit between Fox and Dominion Voting Systems. In
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