Fox talking head Tucker Carlson loves to gush his admiration for scandal-ridden ex-President Donald Trump at pretty much every opportunity. Literally, one of his recent segments was devoted almost entirely to his praise, adulation, and apparent obsession with the big guy’s McDonald’s order — and no, I am really not joking.
However, new court filings are now proving, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Carlson’s approval of the disgraced former president is nothing more than a show put on for the public’s eye, his viewers, and Trump himself, as the filing exposed Tucker’s private text messages that highlight his hatred and disdain for Donald J. Trump.
New court filings were released this week in connection to the ongoing defamation lawsuit against Fox News Network by Dominion Voting Systems, and the legal documents just so happen to contain some rather damning revelations about Tucker Carlson’s true feelings regarding the 45th president and his infamous Big Lie.
In a text message Carlson sent to an unidentified Fox employee on Jan. 4, 2021, that came to light this week in the brutal new court filing, the notable Fox Network talking head said, “We are very very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait. 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.”
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Carlson’s damning text message was just one portion of a series of exhibits that were included by Dominion in the court filing connected to the massive $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit lodged against the fringe Right-wing network for their decision to repeatedly and publicly peddle Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories and lies, blaming Dominions voting system machines for his brutal 2020 presidential loss, claiming that the machines were essentially rigged to change votes for Trump over to votes for Biden.
Fox Network continues to vehemently push back against this lawsuit and its accusations, claiming that they’re protected by their First Amendment right to free speech and accusing Dominion of cherry-picking quotes from some of the network’s most notable talking heads and executives to wrongfully pad their court case against the Conservative network.
In a statement released by Fox on the matter of the ongoing lawsuit this week, the network said, “Thanks to today’s filings, Dominion has been caught red-handed using more distortions and misinformation in their PR campaign to smear FOX News and trample on free speech and freedom of the press. We already know they will say and do anything to try to win this case, but to twist and even misattribute quotes to the highest levels of our company is truly beyond the pale.”
Carlson isn’t the only big name in the Fox Network to be knocked down a notch by the revelations coming out of the bombshell Dominion lawsuit. Fox’s own monarch, owner, and co-chair of Fox Corp, Rupert Murdoch, has been thoroughly raked over the coals throughout this process, with Dominion’s most recent court filing revealing that Murdoch wrote to Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott and said that hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham “went too far” with regard to using their segments to hawk and endorse Donald Trump’s election lies and conspiracy theories.
In recent depositions with Dominion attorneys and newly exposed internal communications, it’s been revealed that Murdoch, on numerous occasions, has openly acknowledged that Donald Trump’s claims, being peddled by his own network hosts, were categorically false — something that has since sent Trump himself flying off the rails.
As it stands, the case between Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News Network is set to go to trial beginning in April.
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