Tucker Carlson privately called the then-president a “disaster” during the lead-up to January 6. Two years later, the Fox News host is still spinning a wildly different story to his viewers.
was fed up with. “I hate him passionately,” the Fox News host wrote in a text message on January 4, 2021. “I can’t handle much more of this.” The former president was a “disaster," Carlson said, and his conduct following's presidential win two months earlier had been “disgusting.” “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights,” Carlson added. “I truly can’t wait.”
This apparent enmity for Trump was nowhere to be found during Carlson's primetime Fox News program that same evening. Onthe official to find just enough votes to edge out Biden in the battleground state—and cast doubt on Biden’s decisive victory, which was to be certified a couple days later. “What happened,” Carlson told his viewers, “was the people in charge rigged the game. Carlson’s efforts this week to, speak to his ongoing disdain for democracy.
It’s long been clear that Fox News wasn’t buying the election denial it was selling. That much was made plain by the January 6 committee, whichattempting to get Trump to put an end to the riot that day.
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