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The BBC reports: Russian TV news channel Rossiya 24 has aired a trailer for a weekend show featuring former Fox News journalist Tucker Carlson. The state-run broadcaster did not make clear whether it will feature original content or be a translation of his regular English-language videos on X. Carlson abruptly left Fox News in April where his populist conservative takes …

NBC News reports: Ray Epps, a Jan. 6 participant whose removal from the FBI’s Capitol Violence webpage sparked conspiracy theories that he was a federal informant, was charged in connection with the Capitol attack on Tuesday. Epps is charged with one misdemeanor count, disorderly or disruptive conduct on restricted grounds. He was charged by information, which suggests that he plans …

Mediaite reports: Elon Musk joined Tucker Carlson in scoffing at the rape, abuse and sexual assault allegations against Russell Brand. On Saturday, three British news organizations collectively reported that four women claimed Brand sexually assaulted them over a seven-year period from 2006 to 2013. One of the accusers provided medical records in support of her claim that Brand raped her …

Mediaite reports: Tucker Carlson told a crowd in Budapest that the current American leadership hates both Hungary and Russia because they are Christian countries, and is punishing them for it. Speaking at MCC Feszt in Budapest, Hungary on Friday, Carlson said that the “people who run” the United States right now are “dangerous and insane,” and it can be seen …

Slate reports: In the interview posted onto X, the website formerly known as Twitter, at the same time as the Republican presidential debate Wednesday night, former President Donald Trump was boasting about his poll numbers when Tucker Carlson suddenly cut him off. “If the protests didn’t work, and you got elected anyway; the impeachment didn’t work, twice; indictment is not …

The Hill reports: Tucker Carlson brought up former Attorney General William Barr in unusual fashion, raising a report he wrote about the death of Jeffrey Epstein in prison. Carlson questioned why Barr wrote in his biography that Epstein likely killed himself, a nod to conspiracy theories that Epstein was killed in prison. Trump said he did not know, but he …

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump suggested that the United States could see intensifying political violence, saying in a new interview that tensions in the country were reaching a boiling point. Asked by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson whether the nation is headed toward open conflict, Trump responded: “I don’t know. I can say this: There’s a …

The New York Times reports: Former President Donald J. Trump plans to upstage the first Republican primary debate on Wednesday by sitting for an online interview with the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, according to multiple people briefed on the matter. In the past 24 hours, Mr. Trump has told people close to him that he has made up …

NBC News reports: A Donald Trump fan who participated in the Jan. 6 attack and then was the subject of a conspiracy theory on Tucker Carlson’s former Fox News show was arrested by the FBI on Wednesday. Rally Runner, formerly known as Daniel Donnelly Jr., was arrested in St. Louis, Missouri, according to court records. Runner faces five federal charges, …

The Guardian reports: Far-right former Fox News host Tucker Carlson denies being racist – but says if he was, he would “just say so”. “Being racist is not a crime,” Carlson says in a new biography, Tucker, by Chadwick Moore. “Maybe [it is] a moral crime, but not a statutory crime – so if I was racist, I would just …

The Guardian reports: Tucker Carlson “knows” he was fired by Fox News in April as a condition of the $787.5m settlement with Dominion Voting Systems regarding the broadcast of Donald Trump’s lie about election fraud, the former host says in a new book. “They agreed to take me off the air, my show off the air, as a condition of …

CNBC reports: Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s new Twitter show has landed one of its first advertisers. Carlson agreed to a seven-figure advertising deal with Public Square, a shopping app that promotes itself as being the “starting point” for conservatives to battle environmental, social and governance policies. Carlson has become even more outspokenly conservative on Twitter than he was …

“There are clergy in Ukraine who are being thrown in prison, convents raided, nuns kicked out, priests handcuffed, thrown in jail. So I asked a self-appointed Christian leader about that, and I said, ‘What do you think? As someone who’s spent his life advocating for religious freedom about raiding nunneries and throwing priests in jail?’ And he said with a …

As you saw in the previous post, Tucker Carlson is holding a forum with GOP presidential candidates at an event put on by an Iowa anti-LGBTQ hate group, the Family Leader. In his interview with Mike Pence, Carlson claimed that Ukraine is persecuting Christians and is therefore unworthy of US support. Pence wasn’t having it. A partial transcript: Pence: I …

“Now as to that day, let me just say: All I know for sure, having lived through it at the Capitol, is that it was a tragic day. I’ve never used the word insurrection, Tucker, over the last two years. “But it was a riot that took place at the Capitol that day. I saw firsthand where they evacuated us …

Reuters reports: Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and former White House adviser Neil Patel are looking to raise funds to start a new media company that could potentially be anchored on Twitter, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The duo is looking to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to fund the company, the report said, citing people …

The New York Times reports: Ray Epps, the man at the center of a widespread conspiracy theory about the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing Fox News and its former host Tucker Carlson of defamation for promoting a “fantastical story” that Mr. Epps was an undercover government agent who instigated the violence …

The Independent reports: Tucker Carlson has once again invited criticism for uploading a two-and-a-half-hour long interview with rape and sex trafficking accused Andrew Tate on Twitter. The former Fox News host, who now uploads a new series he calls Tucker on Twitter, sat down with the controversial social media influencer, who was arrested and charged with rape, human trafficking and …

Glenn Beck’s Blaze Media reports: Blaze Media is joining forces with the FAMiLY Leader to present a presidential candidate forum hosted by Tucker Carlson. A tweet on TheBlaze Twitter account indicates that the company will be streaming the Friday event live on BlazeTV and the BlazeTV YouTube channel. The livestream on the BlazeTV YouTube channel is scheduled to begin at …

The New York Times reports: Of all the distortions and paranoia that Tucker Carlson promoted on his since-canceled Fox News program, one looms large: a conspiracy theory that an Arizona man working as a covert government agent incited the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol to sabotage and discredit former President Donald J. Trump and his political movement. What’s …