Fox News host Tucker Carlson is arguably the most powerful advocate of Trumpism in America. It turns out that he also privately hates Donald Trump “passionately.”
We know that because of new court filings from Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit against Fox. A huge trove of Fox News staffers’ private text messages and emails have been made public, and they are exposing the vast gulf between the public personas of Fox’s influential pundits and their private beliefs. The Carlson revelations have been particularly juicy because they show how Trump’s most prominent champion actually loathes him, and they illustrate how Carlson doesn’t respect his viewers enough to speak to them truthfully about the problems that he believes Trump poses to the country.
Carlson does not respect, like or trust the man he has spent years defending in front of the largest cable news audience in America.
According to the filings, Carlson texted a co-worker two days before the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol expressing joy over Trump’s imminent departure from the White House: “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait.” He added later in the text exchange, “I hate him passionately,” and he confessed that he “can’t handle much more of this.”
According to an another exchange from an earlier filing, two days after the 2020 election Carlson told a producer, “What he’s good at is destroying things. He’s the undisputed world champion of that. He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong. It’s so obvious.”
And in another exchange in the new filings, Carlson texted an unnamed person in November 2020 that he thought that Trump’s expected refusal to attend Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration was “hard to believe” and “so destructive.” When his interlocutor lamented that “millions believe every word he says,” Carlson replied, “It’s disgusting. I’m trying to look away.”
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