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By: Daniel Dillmann
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Tucker Carlson appearing in the USA in 2023. Now the ex-presenter has been spotted in Moscow.
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After being fired from Fox News, Tucker Carlson has a lot of time on his hands.
Donald Trump's ally apparently uses this for a visit to Moscow.
Moscow – Former TV presenter Tucker Carlson has been spotted in Moscow.
This is reported by the Belarusian news portal Nexta,
among others,
and refers to several posts on social media.
The former star of the right-wing conservative news channel
Fox News
is said to have arrived in the Russian capital on Thursday (February 1st) and attended the ballet performance “Spartacus” in the Bolshoi Theater.
News of Tucker Carlson's trip to Moscow immediately sparked speculation about the true reason for his stay.
Carlson is considered a close ally of Donald Trump.
After his expulsion from Fox News, which remains mysterious to this day, the son of the former president, Donald Trump Jr., even brought Carlson into play as Trump's possible candidate for vice-presidency in the upcoming 2024 US election.
The moderator himself currently publishes interviews on his Twitter profile.
Tucker Carlson visits Moscow and talks about possible interview with Vladimir Putin
Tucker Carlsond's visit to Moscow may be related to these interviews.
As early as September 2023, he told
Weltwoche
, a right-wing conservative news platform from Switzerland, that he had been trying for a long time to get an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“I tried to interview Vladimir Putin, but the US government prevented it,” the moderator claimed in the conversation.
In the USA it is not desirable to “hear Putin’s voice”.
The interview with Carlson was published
around four months after his departure from
Fox News .
Since Carlson is now not beholden to either an employer or the US government of President Joe Biden, his visit to Moscow could be a renewed attempt to talk to Vladimir Putin.
Neither the moderator nor the Kremlin have
commented on the allegations, according to a report by
Newsweek .
About the person: Tucker Carlson
Surname |
Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson |
Old |
54 years old (born May 16, 1969 in San Francisco |
Previous employers |
CNN (2000-2005), MSNBC (2005-2008), Fox News (2009-2023) |
Wife |
Susan Andrews (since 1991) |
Donald Trump's allies jump to Tucker Carlson's defense
Other allies of Donald Trump did this, especially Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The Republican congresswoman from the US state of Georgia wrote on Twitter: “The Democrats and their propagandists in the media are excited about Tucker Carlson interviewing Putin.”
During his time at
Fox News
and after, Tucker Carlson has repeatedly criticized the US involvement in the Ukraine war.
This, in turn, was not lost on Putin's propaganda machine in the Russian state media.
According to a report by the US news platform
Mother Jones,
shortly after Russia's attack on Ukraine began, the Kremlin wrote to its own institutions asking them to use more recordings of Tucker Carlson in their contributions.
Margarita Simonyan, one of Vladimir Putin's most famous propagandists, confirmed the US presenter's attempts to speak to the Russian president.
The television journalist expressly praised Carlson's work.
Shortly afterwards, government spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that the Kremlin was generally positive about a conversation between like-minded people, according to the Russian news agency
Tass
.
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