Fox News host Tucker Carlson admits to lying on the air

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Fox presenter Tucker Carlson

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Tucker Carlson is one of the most famous faces on the US broadcaster Fox News.

At prime time, the moderator regularly spreads sometimes crude theses about corona vaccinations, migration and the supposed failure of President Joe Biden's government.

Now he has admitted in a YouTube interview that he is not always serious about the truth.

Carlson was interviewed by conservative YouTuber Dave Rubin.

He asked him what he thought of the competition at CNN.

Carlson replied that they were "clowns" - and then got into a tale of lies.

"I'm lying," said Carlson.

"When I'm cornered, I lie." He doesn't want to lie on TV, but he "definitely does it, out of weakness or something," Carlson continued.

Then he insinuates that moderators at CNN, in contrast to him, also lie “systematically” in order to “protect the system”.

Carlson used to work for CNN himself before switching to the conservative broadcaster Fox. The station has spoken out in favor of corona vaccinations, but Carlson himself has not yet said whether he is vaccinated. In his broadcast he repeatedly stirs up doubts about the vaccines - and spreads unchecked false reports. Carlson recently read a tweet from rapper Nicki Minaj, in which she claimed that a "cousin from Trinidad" had become impotent after being vaccinated.

During the Trump era in the White House, Fox News was considered the mouthpiece of then President Trump.

Later, the broadcaster had to admit, among other things, the spread of false information and showed a fact check on the statements of its own moderators.

Two manufacturers of electronic voting machines had sued the broadcaster because for weeks it had spread the unfounded thesis that the companies had deliberately manipulated the elections in favor of Biden with their machines.

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