New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters is going public with a bombshell inside scoop on Fox host Tucker Carlson’s apparently true, personal feelings about the one-term, twice-impeached, scandal-ridden former guy — and it’s pretty much all but guaranteed to send Donald Trump into a tailspin as soon as he catches word.
Spoiler Alert: Tucker isn’t a fan.
Peters sat down with Newsmax TV host Eric Bolling and spoke of some of the insight he reported on in his book that came out back in February, Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted.
During the segment, the pair got onto the topic of Carlson’s highly-publicized appearance at the ex-president’s Bedminster, New Jersey golf club over the weekend — where Trump and Tucker were photographed and caught on video together multiple times, during the highly-controversial Saudi golf tournament on the same property where Trump just buried his first ex-wife.
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But according to Peters, a notable reporter and author, Carlson’s happy-go-lucky appearance while in Trump’s presence over the weekend doesn’t actually reflect the controversial Fox host’s true feeling about the former guy behind closed doors; though he goes on to note that Tucker still has no problem when it comes to aligning himself with Trump in the public’s eye for whatever political, professional, and personal gain he can rustle up.
“I saw a lot of pictures floating around the internet of Trump and Tucker Carlson kind of yucking it up a little bit in the Trump box,” the Newsmax host noted before going on to ask Peters why he thinks Tucker is all to happy to be publicly spotted with Trump on the regular, despite his private disdain for the guy that Peters has previously reported on.
Peters didn’t hold back an ounce in his answer:
I think you know as well as I do that Tucker, in private, what he says about Trump is very different than what he says about Trump in public, and it benefits him to be seen having photos taken with Trump at the golf course and everything. I would not be surprised at all to see Tucker, I quoted him in my book, he said, ‘I am voting for Kanye West.’
This is in 2020 so… he didn’t vote for Trump as far as we know. I mean, I don’t know, I wasn’t there with him in the in the ballot box, but we know that Tucker Carlson is one of these people who benefits from having the Trump audience on his side, but thinks very little of the people who make up that audience.”
Bolling went on to send a collective shudder through us all when he theorized that Tucker Carlson has some serious presidential ambitions of his own and noted that should the Fox host ultimately run for the White House, he would need the support of Donald Trump’s base to stand a chance.
“I think there are a lot of people, Eric, who snicker behind Trump’s back, who say that they support him publicly and they like his ideas, and they like him,” Peters explained as they closed out the explosive segment. “But privately, it’s a different story, and that to me is the ultimate fallacy of the conservative media.”
Good luck getting invited back to the greens after Donald gets wind of this, Tucker.
Watch the interview here:
New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters exposes Tucker Carlson. Says he trashes Trump in private and “he thinks very little” of his audience. pic.twitter.com/8V4OYX3Hna
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) August 2, 2022
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