As of: February 28, 2024, 11:57 a.m
By: Kilian Beck
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Tucker Carlson claims his lawyers warned him about being arrested at Joe Biden's request.
The reason is said to have been his Putin interview.
Washington DC – Tucker Carlson remains impressed with his trip to Moscow.
There, the former host of the news channel
Fox News
interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin.
After rumors had already been denied that the European Union could sanction Carlson, he went further in Lex Fridman's podcast: His lawyers, Carlson claimed without providing any evidence, had advised him against the interview and feared that US authorities could Arrest right-wing extremists on his return journey.
Russian President Vladimir Putin interviews former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in the Kremlin on February 8.
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New York court ruled in 2020: “No spectator in their right mind” should believe Tucker Carlson
The conclusion of a "ten-page memo" from his lawyers was that Tucker Carlson should "drop" the interview with Vladimir Putin because it could potentially violate the US sanctions regime.
Since numerous Western and US journalists work in Russia, this seems at least implausible.
Even though Carlson's publications have little or nothing to do with journalism, he obviously enjoys freedom of the press.
In 2020, a New York federal court ruled, at the request of his then employer
Fox News
, that “no viewer in their right mind” would seriously believe that factual claims Carlson made on his show should be considered facts.
This was reported by the US radio station
National Public Radio,
among others .
Carlson didn’t ask Putin any “hard questions” – the US still allowed the moderator to enter the country
In addition, Carlson claimed on the podcast that his general counsel told him that whether he would be arrested upon his return to the United States would "depend on his questions."
Carlson's claims, which have so far been completely unsubstantiated, are that he shouldn't make things too easy for the autocrat Putin in the interview.
Russian journalists accused him of participating in Putin's election campaign in Russia,
Voice of America
reported .
Putin himself seemed amused by the conversation with the agitator: Carlson didn't ask any “hard questions.”
The Russian president expected this because it “would have given him the opportunity to answer in the same way,” he said on the state television station
Rossiya-1.
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Despite this assessment and Putin's long-winded history-falsifying propaganda show in the conversation, Carlson was allowed to re-enter the USA unhindered.
The right-wing extremist did not publish the “ten-page memo”.
(KiBec)