FILE – Tucker Carlson, left, and former President Donald Trump, right, react during the final round of the Bedminster Invitational LIV Golf tournament in Bedminster, N.J., July 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
Published December 1, 2023
WASHINGTON (TND) — Former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson knows who he will back in the 2024 election.
Speaking on an episode of The Roseanne Barr Podcast this week, Carlson announced that former President Donald Trump has earned his vote.
Speaking on an episode of The Roseanne Barr Podcast this week, Carlson announced that former President Donald Trump has earned his vote.
I’m voting for Trump, and if they convict him, I will send him the max donations and I will lead protests. That’s how I feel,” Carlson said.
The former television personality also noted that part of the reason he plans to vote for Trump is because he doesn’t feel the former president is guilty of any crimes.
“By the way, if I thought that he had committed some real crime, I wouldn’t feel that way. But he didn’t,” Carlson added.
Though Carlson said he preferred to remain neutral in political affairs, he said he felt compelled to speak out in favor of Trump after the raid on his Mar-a-Lago estate.
I became an active Trump supporter when they raided Mar-a-Lago last summer,” Carlson said. “I agree with Trump on a lot. Even if I disagreed with Trump a lot, I’d still be a Trump supporter because you can not allow that. You cannot allow the president of the United States to use the Justice Department to knock the frontrunner out of the race.”
The 2024 election, he said, is about issues larger than just the politicians in the race.
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SOURCE: www.nbcmontana.com
RELATED: Tucker Carlson once texted he hated Trump “passionately.” Now he’s endorsing him for president.
Published November 30, 2023
Former President Donald Trump has earned an endorsement from Tucker Carlson, the conservative media figure who once said in a text that he hated the former president.
“I became an active Trump supporter when they raided Mar-a-Lago last summer. That just can’t stand,” Carlson said in an interview Thursday with Roseanne Barr on her podcast — the actress being no stranger to controversy herself. “I’m voting for Trump, and if they convict him, I will send him the max donations and I will lead protests. That’s how I feel.”
Carlson told Barr he has “always agreed with Trump’s policies,” even “losing friends over it.”
While the conservative newsman and the former president appeared to have a friendly relationship during Trump’s presidency — when Carlson occupied the coveted primetime spot in Fox News’ nightly lineup — text messages that were revealed during Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against the network painted a different picture.
In a text message sent on Jan. 4, 2021, Carlson wrote to an unidentified recipient, “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait.”
“I hate him passionately. … I can’t handle much more of this,” he added.
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SOURCE: www.cbsnews.com
RELATED: Trump says he’d consider Tucker Carlson as running mate
Published November 9, 2023
Former President Trump says he’d consider Tucker Carlson as a potential running mate in 2024.
“I like Tucker a lot; I guess I would,” Trump said during an appearance on “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show” this week. “I think I’d say I would, because he’s got great common sense.”
“You know, when they say that you guys are conservative, or I’m conservative — it’s not that we’re conservative, we have common sense. We want to have safe borders. We want to have a wall, because walls work,” he said.
Carlson was fired by Fox News in April just days after it agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787 million to settle claims of defamation out of court. The host has since launched a video series on the X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, and remains under contract with Fox.
On the night of the first Republican presidential primary debate, in August, Carlson hosted a wide-ranging interview with Trump on his X program.
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SOURCE: www.thehill.com
