Whoopi Goldberg and the hosts of “The View” celebrated on Monday after learning that the network terminated Fox News host Tucker Carlson, and Megyn Kelly took to Twitter to give her opinion.
Carlson was let go from the network following the news that Fox agreed to pay $787.5 million in a defamation lawsuit brought on by Dominion Voting Systems, partly due to Carlson’s primetime show, “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
The voting machines company sued the network after Carlson and other hosts defamed the company by continually presenting guests who falsely claimed the company had given former President Donald Trump’s votes to President Joe Biden during the 2020 election.
A lawsuit filed by former Fox producer Abby Grossberg also might have contributed to Carlson’s exit from the network. Grossberg was fired last month and claims that she was subjected to bullying and anti-Semitic comments while working on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
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“Tucker Carlson’s departure from Fox News is, in part, an admission of the systemic lying, bullying and conspiracy-mongering claimed by our client, former top producer Abby Grossberg,” said her attorney, Tanvir Rahman. “Mr. Carlson and his subordinates remain individual defendants in the [Southern District of New York] case, and we look forward to taking their depositions under oath in the very near term.”
Carlson also repeatedly used his show for racist commentary, including saying that people crossing into the country from the southern border would make America “poorer and dirtier and more divided,” according to the Los Angeles Times. He also claimed the leftist media was “lynching” convicted murderer Derek Chauvin.
Goldberg announced the Fox talk show host was leaving the network during “The View” on…
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