Controversial author Michael Wolff claimed in an interview this week that Tucker Carlson was the source of his reporting that alleged Florida Governor Ron DeSantis kicked Carlson’s dog while meeting with Carlson and his wife, Susie Carlson.
Carlson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlson-debunks-totally-made-up-story-that-claimed-desantis-kicked-his-dog" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rejected</a> the claims in &#8220;The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty&#8221; last week, telling The Daily Wire that the &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; story was &#8220;totally made up&#8221; and that DeSantis &#8220;never touched my dog, obviously.&#8221;
DeSantis&#8217; presidential campaign also slammed the story, calling it “absurd and false.”
Wolff <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/michael-wolff-fox-news-rupert-murdoch-tucker-carlson-book-excerpt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> in his book:
<blockquote>The Carlsons are dog people with four spaniels, the progeny of other spaniels they have had before, who sleep in their bed. DeSantis pushed the dog under the table. Had he kicked the dog? Susie Carlson’s judgment was clear: She did not ever want to be anywhere near anybody like that ever again. Her husband agreed. DeSantis, in Carlson’s view, was a “fascist.” Forget Ron DeSantis.</blockquote>
In an interview on Monday, Wolff claimed that Carlson was the source for the story: “The source on this is Tucker himself. I just reflect what he told me.”
When asked if Carlson was lying, Wolff said: &#8220;I don’t know, maybe he exaggerated. Maybe he lied. I don’t know. Maybe he regrets saying that. I have no idea.&#8221;
&#8220;I think what I am accurately reflecting is his feelings about Ron DeSantis, and at the moment he seemed to have felt that he kicked the dog,&#8221; Wolff claimed. &#8220;I can’t tell you whether that happened or not. I can tell you with the greatest authority that that’s what he said happened.&#8221;
A spokesperson for Carlson said that Wolff&#8217;s claims that Carlson was behind the story was false.
The spokesperson also responded with the following video of Wolff:
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In response to a request for comment on this story, a spokesperson for Tucker Carlson sent the following video clip: <a href="https://t.co/td7fm3t047">https://t.co/td7fm3t047</a> <a href="https://t.co/MXyPW6xxWh">pic.twitter.com/MXyPW6xxWh</a>
&mdash; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1706380915230818636?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Author Michael Wolff Discusses His Controversial New Book On Trump Administration

Michael Wolff Claims Tucker Carlson Was Behind Ron DeSantis Dog Story; Carlson Fires Back

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Ron DeSantis

Tucker Carlson

Former Fox News host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tucker-carlson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tucker Carlson</a> debunked a claim this week that Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> kicked Carlson&#8217;s dog while meeting with Carlson and his wife, Susie Carlson.
The claim was contained in a new book — &#8220;The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty&#8221; — from author Michael Wolff, whose work in the past has often been criticized as not accurate.
Wolff <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/michael-wolff-fox-news-rupert-murdoch-tucker-carlson-book-excerpt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> in his book:
<blockquote>The Carlsons are dog people with four spaniels, the progeny of other spaniels they have had before, who sleep in their bed. DeSantis pushed the dog under the table. Had he kicked the dog? Susie Carlson’s judgment was clear: She did not ever want to be anywhere near anybody like that ever again. Her husband agreed. DeSantis, in Carlson’s view, was a “fascist.” Forget Ron DeSantis.</blockquote>
In a statement to The Daily Wire, Carlson said of Wolff&#8217;s claims: “It’s totally made up. Ridiculous actually.”
&#8220;This is absurd,&#8221; Carlson <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ron-desantis-tucker-carlson-dog-table-michael-wolff-book-2023-9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a separate statement to Insider. &#8220;He never touched my dog, obviously.&#8221;
DeSantis&#8217; presidential campaign also strongly pushed back on the story, calling it &#8220;absurd and false.&#8221;
&#8220;Some will say or write anything to attack Ron DeSantis because they know he presents a threat to their worldview,&#8221; said Communications Director Andrew Romeo. &#8220;But rest assured that as president the one thing he will squarely kick is the DC elitists in both parties either under or over the table, and that&#8217;s why they are so desperately fighting back.&#8221;
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Wolff&#8217;s reputation is so suspect that CNN wrote a report on Tuesday urging people to be skeptical of Wolff&#8217;s new book attacking their archrival Fox News.
&#8220;When reading and reporting on the book, journalists and the public at large would be smart not to mistake Wolff’s word for the word of God,&#8221; CNN&#8217;s left-wing media reporter Oliver Darcy <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/19/media/michael-wolff-fox-news-book-reliable-sources/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. &#8220;Wolff has a history of printing claims that end up being strongly disputed by the subjects themselves. Critics have chided him in the past for sloppy or unethical reporting practices. And his bestselling &#8216;Fire &amp; Fury&#8217; even contained outright factual errors.&#8221;
CNN noted that a &#8220;quick glance&#8221; of Wolff&#8217;s new book showed that he made &#8220;sloppy mistakes, struggling to even spell the names of top Fox News anchors Bret Baier and Jesse Watters.&#8221;
Sources at Fox News told CNN that Wolff did not even attempt to fact check the claims in his book.
&#8220;When it comes to reporting on any subject, however, taking basic fact-checking measures is important,&#8221; CNN added. &#8220;With Fox News, where an author might be basing major claims using less-than-reliable sources, the risks are more pronounced, making such reporting efforts even more paramount. Some sources could harbor an agenda — and it takes little effort or risk to provide information as an unnamed source.&#8221;

Former President Trump Addresses The Turning Points Action Conference In West Palm Beach, California

Tucker Carlson Debunks ‘Totally Made Up’ Story That Claimed DeSantis Kicked His Dog

Tucker Carlson Debunks 'Totally Made Up' Story That Claimed DeSantis Kicked His Dog

Elections

Fox News

Politics

People have been shocked to see the extent that the Department of Justice and the media went to for Hunter Biden and his laptop. The cover up was obviously real; the amount of evidence throughout the 2020 election was ridiculous. Yet even when photos of Hunter smoking crack surfaced, the media claimed they were Russian propaganda. How utterly delusional to think the Russians have any interest in creating propaganda about Hunter Biden.
Ultimately, the media got what they wanted: installing Joe Biden as president. But now, people are realizing the Department of Justice is complicit. Former members of the CIA are complicit. People in the intelligence community claimed Hunter’s laptop was tied in with Russian propaganda efforts, but they knew that the contents of the laptop were true. Even judges have been implicated. Finally, people are asking, just how corrupt is the system?
The general consensus is usually that “deep state” is just a trendy phrase conspiracy theorists throw around. But in actuality, this is exactly what deep state is. It’s when people who have so much power make stories virtually disappear overnight — stories that should actually be everywhere. It’s what gets you to stop talking about something that we should be talking about for months and, instead, shifts your focus to something else entirely, just like what happened with Hunter Biden’s laptop.
One such story that disappeared without a trace was the one involving all the allegations that Barack Obama is gay — something I’ve known about him for years. Tucker Carlson spoke on camera about these claims, and for most people, this was all new information. They were shocked because there had been a media concerted effort to bury those stories when Obama was running for president of the United States. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jls5Bz8pEtc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In his video,</a> Tucker explains that a man named Larry Sinclair came forward, signed an affidavit, took a lie detector test (the results have been <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2008/06/obama-accuser-has-long-rap-sheet-011164" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disputed</a>), and professed to having smoked crack and had sex with Obama. Yet no one reported on this. Why? Because the Obama campaign said that anyone who does will be banned from access to the Obama campaign.
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This was confirmed when a Secret Service agent who worked for Obama and his family told me that when Obama was in office, part of the Secret Service’s job was sneaking young men into the White House. Furthermore, it wasn’t a secret that he was sleeping with these young men. The press never found out, which happens occasionally. Sometimes, you can actually drop off crack cocaine at the White House, and they don’t know who did it. When they need to be, the government can be super hush hush, and the media will help bury those facts. So the president of the United States was allegedly having illicit affairs and the media covered it up. That is a big cover up.
Because of this, most people had never even heard of Larry Sinclair until Carlson mentioned him. They had never heard about his testimony — and if they did, it was dismissed. Sinclair was just problematized. It is true that Sinclair has problems — financial, forgery, fraud, etc. — but he was crystal clear in his testimony at the National Press Club news conference in Washington on June 18, 2008, that he engaged in a homosexual affair with Obama in Chicago. At this conference, exactly four minutes in, Sinclair give a detailed recount of his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QK0eGp3N6A">“Obama incident”</a>, the affair with Obama.
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It is a remarkably detailed account, and it seems like the journalists in the room at that news conference would have fact checked those details. They could have easily asked for credit card receipts, questioned then-Senator Obama where he was on that evening, and asked him to counter the claims. Of course, this video was buried, just like the letter Obama’s ex-girlfriend came forward with, which detailed the gay fantasies he had about men while also proclaiming he would be publicly heterosexual. This is not a real secret because it has never been a real secret. Yet it has been kept from the general public.
To be clear, it doesn’t really affect my day-to-day life if Obama is a flaming homo. But as a country, we should ask the question: Why did the media cover this up? They did not cover it up because they were concerned America wouldn’t vote for a gay man in 2008. The real reason they covered it is that the media is controlled by the CIA. The CIA has placed agents all within the media to control the way we think, and that has been going on for decades — since JFK was assassinated. That is when they put Operation Mockingbird into place.
Perhaps the CIA thought they needed journalists to repeat what they wanted them to say following JFK’s death. But the bigger reason why they latch onto complicated characters like Joe and Hunter Biden and Barack Obama is because they know their dirt. They know that Obama likes crack and young men, and having that kind of information gives them control. So they find someone who presents well enough, gives them a division of power, and installs a puppet presidency. Obama is going to do exactly what they want — because of what they have on him. Look at what they know.
This isn’t a conspiracy. It’s common sense. Obviously.
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The Media’s Cover-Up Of Barack Obama’s Alleged Illicit Gay Affairs

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Candace Owens

Cocaine

LGBTQ

Opinion

Presidency

Readers Pass

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson interviewed a man on his show this week who claims that he used drugs and had sexual relations with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/barack-obama" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barack Obama</a> before Obama was president.
Carlson&#8217;s interview of Larry Sinclair — who has been <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2008/06/obama-accuser-has-long-rap-sheet-011164" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicted</a> and served significant time in jail for crimes involving deceit, and who reportedly did not pass a polygraph test administered in response to his allegations involving Obama — comes after recent reports <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-fantasized-about-making-love-to-men-in-letter-to-his-girlfriend-his-biographer-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highlighted</a> that Obama wrote in letters to an ex-girlfriend that he sexually fantasized about men.
The interview was featured on X, formerly known as Twitter, where Carlson releases videos of interviews he conducts with various figures.
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Ep. 22 Larry Sinclair says he had a night of crack cocaine-fueled sex with Barack Obama, and that Obama came back for more the next day. Assess for yourself. Here’s our interview. <a href="https://t.co/R6CXwKv6gs">pic.twitter.com/R6CXwKv6gs</a>
&mdash; Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1699543001473900670?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The post of the interview has garnered tens of millions of views and has prompted both praise and criticism. The interview has racked up more than 150,000 &#8220;likes,&#8221; even while some prominent figures online, including some close to Carlson, have questioned the credibility of Sinclair and the veracity of his claims.
X owner Elon Musk, who frequently promotes content created by Carlson, <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1699660982677594422" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> that he thought Sinclair was &#8220;not super convincing.&#8221;
&#8220;Of course, the probability that his claims are true would have to rest on objective evidence, rather than claims made by someone with a dubious history,&#8221; Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1699553238129754170" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, who appeared on Carlson&#8217;s show in the <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1697378139729539549">episode</a> prior to Sinclair, called the guest &#8220;the least trustworthy human&#8221; he has ever known.
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&#8220;I met Larry Sinclair when I was doing my Tucker thing a couple weeks ago. I would trust Anna Delvey before I trusted anything Larry Sinclair said,&#8221; Portnoy <a href="https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1699828157094768789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1699828157094768789%7Ctwgr%5E1a63c8f921ca5e6c8d91fab93b1e2126a1ae2d19%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.dailywire.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D617011action%3Dedit">wrote</a>. &#8220;Top to bottom maybe the least trustworthy human I&#8217;ve ever laid eyes on. I&#8217;d say his story has 0.0% of being true and that&#8217;s generous.&#8221;
For his part, Carlson presented the interview as a chance to let Sinclair fully voice the claims he made first some fifteen years ago — claims largely dismissed and buried by the legacy press — tweeting to his 10 million followers, &#8220;Assess for yourself.&#8221;

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Tucker Carlson Interviews Man Who Claims He Smoked Crack And Had Sexual Relations With Obama

Twitter

U.S.

Former Fox News host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tucker-carlson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tucker Carlson</a> indicated this week that he believes former President Donald Trump should have participated in the first Republican Party presidential debate and that both Trump and President Joe Biden are too old to be president.
Carlson made the remarks during an interview with Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy this week.
&#8220;I thought Trump should have done, I thought he should’ve done the debate,&#8221; Portnoy said.
&#8220;Yeah,&#8221; Carlson agreed.
&#8220;For the betterment of the country, I think he should be on the debate stage,&#8221; Portnoy added.
&#8220;I kind of agree,&#8221; Carlson responded. &#8220;I like the debates, personally.&#8221;
Carlson then took an apparent shot at his former employer, saying that the problem with the organizations that host the debates is that they are &#8220;rotten and corrupt.&#8221;
Portnoy later added that he believes there has been &#8220;a shift where, internally, maybe the Democrats don’t think [Biden] can win and they’re setting the stage to do somebody else.&#8221;
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&#8220;To be honest, I think both Trump and Biden are too old,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I don’t think you should be able to be that old to be president.&#8221;
Carlson interrupted to say, &#8220;I agree 100%.&#8221;
Trump is 77, Biden is 80.
The interview comes after Carlson interviewed Trump and aired the footage during the debate last week.
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Tucker Carlson agrees with Dave Portnoy that Trump is too old to hold office. He also agreed that Trump should have participated in the primary debate. 
Portnoy: &quot;Both Trump and Biden are too old.&quot; 
Tucker: &quot;I agree 100%.&quot;
Portnoy: &quot;How are these people running our country?&quot;… <a href="https://t.co/hM5vNfdcpi">pic.twitter.com/hM5vNfdcpi</a>
&mdash; Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1697639332688105794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Republican Presidential Candidates Speak At The Family Leadership Summit in Iowa

Tucker Carlson: Trump Should Have Gone To GOP Primary Debate, He And Biden Too Old To Be President

Dave Portnoy

Donald Trump

Joe Biden

Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> skipped the Republican debate Wednesday night and sat down with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tucker-carlson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tucker Carlson</a> for an extensive interview that garnered over 100 million views on X in a matter of hours.
Trump answered questions ranging from why he did not attend the debate to if he believes the U.S. is headed for a civil war — and was even asked by the former Fox News host if he&#8217;s worried about an assassination attempt. The interview, which was posted to X five minutes before the start of the Republican debate amassed over 100 million views before the end of the night, Newsweek <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-tucker-carlson-interview-viewed-100-million-times-4-hours-1822085" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. By Thursday morning, Carlson&#8217;s interview with Trump had reached over 180 million views.
While the social media platform&#8217;s way of counting views makes it difficult to truly understand how many people actively watched the interview, Trump&#8217;s sit-down with Carlson can be compared to the host&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1692282708397863374" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, which has garnered 44 million views since being posted last week.
During the interview, the former president pointed to his large lead in the polls as the reason he skipped joining the other Republican candidates and opted for a one-on-one conversation with Carlson.
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Ep. 19 Debate Night with Donald J Trump <a href="https://t.co/ayPfII48CO">pic.twitter.com/ayPfII48CO</a>
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“I&#8217;m leading by [40] points,” Trump said. “But I&#8217;m gonna have all these people screaming at me, shouting questions at me. All of which I love answering. I love doing, but it doesn&#8217;t make sense to do &#8217;em. So, I&#8217;ve taken a pass.”
When asked by Carlson if he&#8217;s concerned that the U.S. is heading toward violence or possibly a civil war, Trump said he wasn&#8217;t sure.
&#8220;I can say this, there&#8217;s a level of passion that I&#8217;ve never seen,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;There&#8217;s a level of hatred that I&#8217;ve never seen, and there&#8217;s probably a bad combination.&#8221;  
Trump addressed his pending legal cases, saying they are nonsense. He pointed to his one-time opponent Hillary Clinton and Democrat Stacey Abrams, saying they too challenged the outcomes of the elections they lost.
&#8220;But now, you know, every time you see [Clinton] on television, she&#8217;s saying like, well, she&#8217;s challenging the election. … So that would mean that she should be indicted, but that would mean also that Stacey Abrams in Georgia should be indicted &#8217;cause she still thinks she won the election for governor,&#8221; Trump said. 
Carlson also asked the former president, who is facing four felony indictments and is set to turn himself in again on Thursday, if he worries that his political enemies might try to assassinate him.
&#8220;Honestly, they&#8217;re savage animals. They are people that are sick, really sick,&#8221; Trump replied. 
On Biden, Trump said he still has doubts about whether the president will continue his run for re-election. Trump also said Biden isn’t actually running the country – and that his family’s business dealings have “compromised” him. 
Trump touted his record on foreign policy, saying he kept the U.S. out of a nuclear war with North Korea and hit Biden for the Ukraine-Russia War, as well as for allowing China to reportedly gain a foothold in Cuba, but Trump’s primary issue is still immigration.
&#8220;Number one is a border and taking hundreds of thousands of criminals that have been allowed into our country and getting them out and bringing them back to their country,&#8221; the former president said. 
Tim Pearce contributed to this report.

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Trump/Tucker Carlson Interview Racks Up Massive Views; Addresses Debate Skip, Indictments

Trump/Tucker Interview Racks Up Massive Views; Addresses Debate Skip, Indictments

2024 Election

2024 Primaries

Debates

Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> opted for a one-on-one interview with ex-Fox News host Tucker Carlson — an interview that was released on X and timed to compete with Wednesday evening’s GOP presidential primary debate.
While every other candidate who met the Republican National Committee’s criteria chose to attend the debate — and take questions from moderators Shannon Bream and Bret Baier — Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-trump-cited-as-reason-to-skip-debates-shows-majority-of-republicans-want-him-to-show-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cited a poll</a> that showed him with a comfortable lead, saying, “I WILL THEREFORE NOT BE DOING THE DEBATES.”
That same poll also showed that the majority of Republicans wanted to see the former president on the debate stage — but instead, Trump sat down with Carlson to discuss a wide range of topics, from his reasons for skipping the debate to the problems with corporate media.
Carlson&#8217;s 46-minute <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1694513603251241143" target="_blank" rel="noopener">broadcast</a> preempted the start of the debate by five minutes, and after a few brief digs at the other Republican candidates, they settled in to a long conversation focused on Trump&#8217;s claims that the 2020 election had been rigged, whether or not President Joe Biden&#8217;s physical and mental health would allow him to make it to the 2024 general election, and issues the next president would likely face.
The pair bonded over their mutual dislike of former &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; host Chris Wallace and then briefly butted heads over the fate of the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein when Carlson said that he was wholly convinced that Epstein had been killed. Trump — while he admitted &#8220;a case could be made&#8221; for someone killing him — said he thought Epstein had likely panicked at the prospect of possibly spending the rest of his life in prison and took his own life.
The interview wrapped essentially where Trump had started in the 2016 presidential campaign, with his assessment of the ongoing crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border — followed briefly by his concerns about division in the wake of what happened on January 6th.

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Trump/Tucker Interview Timed To Compete With Fox News’ GOP Debate

Former President Donald Trump will skip next week&#8217;s GOP 2024 presidential primary debate and instead sit down for an interview with Tucker Carlson, The New York Times reported Friday.
Multiple sources close to Trump have said that the GOP presidential primary leader will not attend the debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, according to the NYT. He has long intimated his plans to avoid the first debate on the campaign trail. Trump, who is leading his Republican opponents by double digits in both national and <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">early primary state polls</a>, shared a lengthy statement on social media Thursday that concluded with &#8220;People know my Record, one of the BEST EVER, so why would I Debate?&#8221;
It was reported earlier this month that Fox News executives had <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/us/politics/trump-fox-news-indictment.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dinner</a> with Trump in an apparent attempt to convince him to join the debate. Per Republican National Committee 2024 debate rules, the former president would have had to sign a pledge to support whoever wins the GOP presidential nomination. Trump explained last week he wouldn&#8217;t want to sign it because there are &#8220;three or four people that I wouldn’t support for president.&#8221; The former president <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-calls-out-trump-for-refusing-to-sign-gop-loyalty-pledge-its-not-just-about-you" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>, &#8220;So right there, there’s a problem, okay?&#8221;
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ron-desantis-makes-waves-at-republican-presidential-forum-in-iowa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">received heavy criticism</a> for not attending The Family Leadership Summit in Iowa and &#8220;fireside chat&#8221; with Carlson in July. All other major campaign opponents — including second-place challenger Ron DeSantis — joined Carlson in Iowa for an interview.
Carlson, the NYT noted, has refused to stop his show from airing on Twitter despite legal notices from his former employer. This week, Carlson has released interviews with Democratic primary candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
According to The Daily Mail, Carlson was also <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12419693/Tucker-Carlson-poses-picture-glamorous-ex-White-House-staffer-Donald-Trumps-Bedminster-Golf-Club.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> at Trump&#8217;s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey this week — sparking speculation.
Trump skipping a GOP debate on Fox News is not unprecedented. During his 2016 run, Trump opted not to join a debate in January <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-says-skipping-debate-turned-out-great-n506966" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosted</a> by the network.
So, his decision to forgo the RNC event is not necessarily surprising. What he is doing instead, however, could be enough to shift attention away from the event and steal the spotlight, if true. On Twitter, both men received praise and criticism for their potential plans.
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&#8220;What a great move by Trump &amp; by Tucker!&#8221; New England radio host Howie Carr tweeted. &#8220;Bleep the Fox RINO&#8217;s.&#8221;
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What a great move by Trump &amp; by Tucker!
Bleep the Fox RINO&#39;s.
Trump Plans to Skip G.O.P. Debate for Interview With Tucker Carlson <a href="https://t.co/rLM9l0iEHO">https://t.co/rLM9l0iEHO</a>
&mdash; Howie Carr (@HowieCarrShow) <a href="https://twitter.com/HowieCarrShow/status/1692593489907740937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 18, 2023</a></blockquote>
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New York Times reporter Jonathan Swan, who shared a byline on the story, also tweeted, &#8220;To state the obvious: this would be a major affront to Fox News and to the R.N.C.&#8221;
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To state the obvious: this would be a major affront to Fox News and to the R.N.C.
&mdash; Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) <a href="https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1692579961574404109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 18, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Puck News journalist Tara Palmieri had similar reporting Thursday evening, claiming that both parties involved are &#8220;just working out logistics for the interview on the night of the debate.&#8221;
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New York Times confirms what I had in my newsletter last night &#8212; that the Trump and Tucker are just working out logistics for the interview on the night of the debate, read here: <a href="https://t.co/pyfzpjseTY">https://t.co/pyfzpjseTY</a> <a href="https://t.co/2RFT742Tuh">https://t.co/2RFT742Tuh</a>
&mdash; Tara Palmeri (@tarapalmeri) <a href="https://twitter.com/tarapalmeri/status/1692588134557512088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 18, 2023</a></blockquote>
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This weekend, Tucker Carlson interviewed a bevy of Republican presidential candidates in Iowa. Despite the fact that polls show that nearly zero Americans consider the war in Ukraine to be a top voting priority, Carlson spent a disproportionate share of his time grilling the candidates over their position on Ukraine. He took the position that favoring additional aid to Ukraine in its defensive war against Russia amounted to taking money out of the hands of poverty-stricken Americans in inner cities; as he asked Mike Pence, “Every city in the United States has become much worse over the past three years. &#8230; Our economy has degraded. The suicide rate has jumped. Public filth and disorder and crime have exponentially increased. And yet your concern is that the Ukrainians, a country most people can’t find on a map, who’ve received tens of billions of U.S. tax dollars, don’t have enough tanks?”
This same line of logic was utilized over the weekend by Senator JD Vance (R-OH), who spoke at the Turning Point USA conference in Florida. “There’s no issue that these people with the Ukrainian flags in their bio are more obsessed with, they call it entitlement reform but what they’re saying is they want to cut social security … so we can send more money to Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine,” Vance said. Never mind the fact that this is patently untrue: those with Ukraine flags in their Twitter bios are highly likely to favor massive governmental expenditures domestically. Never mind the fact that Vance himself used to be a proponent of entitlement reform. 
The true concern is the absolutely specious link between a hawkish foreign policy and apathy about domestic concerns. Ukraine has become a litmus test not because many Americans care about it as a top issue – it has become a top issue because many commentators and politicians now make the argument that if you wish to spend a dollar in Ukraine to fend of Russian predation, you must be unconcerned about the suffering of American citizens here at home. 
There are several problems with this logic. 
First off, the basic notion that pouring government money into inner cities somehow cures them of their problems is belied by 60 years of trying just that strategy, to massive failure. In most cases, we’d be better off not spending government dollars on boondoggle programs, no matter where else we spend money.
Then there’s the argument that isolationist foreign policy somehow results in greater American prosperity — that American citizens would be better off if we simply allowed Russia to march into Kyiv. This argument is disconnected from reality. It has no logical limits — why not let China take Taiwan or Russia take Poland? What’s the limiting principle? But it also ignores the fact that American citizens have real interests abroad: the Ukraine war has disrupted supply lines in resources ranging from platinum and titanium to grain and oil; Russia’s routine threats against its neighbors and expansionism in regions ranging from Africa to Syria threaten American allies and strengthen America’s enemies, who further threaten American economic and security interests; China, buoyed by a soft Western response, would presumably move towards a full-scale Taiwan invasion. 
Hawkishness is not allied to domestic poverty; in fact, hawkishness in the aftermath of World War II helped protect the safety of the oceans and the skies, thus leading to the greatest outpouring of prosperity in history. But regardless of what you think of America’s support for Ukraine, it is dishonest to suggest that those who seek to fund Ukraine are universally apathetic about their fellow Americans. That implication is yet another symptom of our broken and polarized politics, in which nuanced arguments are ignored in favor of character attacks.

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A federal judge denied &#8220;QAnon Shaman&#8221; Jacob Chansley&#8217;s motion to vacate his January 6 conviction after withheld security footage showed Capitol Police officers appearing to escort him throughout the building.
Prosecutors <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/qanon-shaman-jacob-chansley-has-mind-bending-chat-with-michael-knowles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> Chansley with multiple crimes, including civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding, and entering and remaining in a restricted building. Chansley pleaded guilty to one felony of obstructing an official proceeding and was sentenced to 41 months in prison in November 2021.
After serving 27 months for his involvement in the Capitol riot, the self-proclaimed &#8220;evolutionary&#8221; had his sentence cut short amid the security footage in question aired by ex-Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
Attorney William Shipley, who is representing the former January 6 prisoner, submitted a bid for the court to withdraw and dismiss the case, saying the footage &#8220;would have been favorable to Mr. Chansley at sentencing,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/20/judge-rejects-qanon-shamans-bid-to-throw-out-jan-6-sentence-00107370" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO</a>.
“Our main goal was to simply force the government to explain why video evidence was not timely produced during a period defendants like Jake were being detained in custody,” he said. “We still believe the government has not provided a sufficient justification in that regard.”
But U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth denied the motion in a <a href="https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2021cr0003-127" target="_blank" rel="noopener">35-page opinion</a>, saying Chansley&#8217;s claims &#8220;are without merit.&#8221;
&#8220;In fact, without Mr. Chansley&#8217;s apparently unequivocal acceptance of responsibility, the Court is confident that he would have received a higher sentence,&#8221; Lamberth wrote.
&#8220;In sum, Mr. Chansley cannot demonstrate that either the absence of certain terms in the plea agreement or the presence of the CCTV footage at sentencing would have resulted in even a &#8216;conceivable[] likelihood of a different result,&#8217; much less a &#8216;substantial&#8217; one,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Therefore, he has not established prejudice.&#8221;
Lamberth also criticized the Capitol security footage aired on Carlson&#8217;s &#8220;ill-advised&#8221; program that day, which he said was &#8220;replete with misstatements and misrepresentations&#8221; about the events on January 6.
&#8220;The Court finds it alarming that the host&#8217;s viewers throughout the nation so readily heeded his command,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But this Court cannot and will not reject the evidence before it.&#8221;
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Carlson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlson-releases-january-6-footage-that-raises-new-questions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> the footage after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) gave the former primetime Fox News host exclusive access to 40,000 hours of video from that day.
&#8220;Virtually every moment of his time inside the Capitol was caught on tape,&#8221; Carlson said during the segment. &#8220;The tapes show the Capitol police never stopped Jacob Chansley. They helped him. They acted as his tour guides.&#8221;
&#8220;Not one of them even tried to slow him down,&#8221; Carlson continued before suggesting that Chansley &#8220;understood that the Capitol police were his allies.&#8221;
Chansley initially issued an apology after he pleaded guilty to his involvement at the Capitol more than two years ago. After being released from prison early, he recently told the BBC he regrets the plea.
Ryan Saavedra contributed to this report.

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Tucker Carlson slammed longshot Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie over the weekend after the former New Jersey governor took a shot at Carlson&#8217;s views about the war in Ukraine.
&#8220;Sounds like this could use a longer conversation,&#8221; Carlson wrote on Twitter Sunday afternoon. &#8220;We just asked @GovChristie to sit down and explain his views on Ukraine. He refused.&#8221;
&#8220;You hate to think that Chris Christie is a blustery coward who plays the tough guy with sycophants at ABC but won’t answer real questions, but who knows?&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We hope he reconsiders.&#8221;
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Sounds like this could use a longer conversation. We just asked <a href="https://twitter.com/GovChristie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovChristie</a> to sit down and explain his views on Ukraine. He refused. You hate to think that Chris Christie is a blustery coward who plays the tough guy with sycophants at ABC but won’t answer real questions, but… <a href="https://t.co/6khc5xi3Co">pic.twitter.com/6khc5xi3Co</a>
&mdash; Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1680677536223854592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Christie <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-christie-reveals-how-he-would-have-answered-ukraine-question-from-tucker-carlson">said</a> during an interview on ABC News’s “This Week” on Sunday that he would have pushed back on Carlson last week at an event in Iowa—if Christie had decided to attend the event.
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“I would have said, ‘You’ve always been wrong about this, Tucker, and you’re still wrong,&#8217;” Christie said. “That, in fact, what’s going on, George, is that this is a proxy war with China. The Chinese are funding the Russian war by buying Russian oil. They’re coordinating with the Iranians to provide lethal weapons to the Russian army.”
“And we can decide when to have this conflict,” he continued. “Right now the Ukrainians are willing to fight this fight for themselves if they have our support to be able to win it. If the Chinese watch us back away from Ukraine, as Tucker Carlson and others would advocate, believe me, the next move will be Taiwan.”
Christie added that he believes, based on polling and what he has seen when talking to voters, that “a majority of Republicans want us to be supporting Ukraine because those folks are fighting for their own freedom, their own liberty, and they’re degrading the Russian army and sending a message to the Chinese.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/my-favorite-story-of-all-time-tucker-carlson-shreds-white-house-over-cocaine-fiasco">‘My Favorite Story Of All Time’: Tucker Carlson Shreds White House Over Cocaine Fiasco</a>

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Tucker Carlson Fires Back At Chris Christie Over Ukraine Remarks

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Podcast host Megyn Kelly said over the weekend that she believes that one Republican presidential candidate stood head and shoulders above the rest of the field last week during a forum that Tucker Carlson hosted in Iowa.
The candidates who spoke with Carlson at the Family Leadership Summit were Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ron-desantis-makes-waves-at-republican-presidential-forum-in-iowa">Ron DeSantis</a>, former Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mike-pence-and-tucker-carlson-clash-in-heated-interview">Mike Pence</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-scott-to-tucker-carlson-americas-national-vital-interest-is-degrading-the-russian-military">Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)</a>, former Arkansas Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlson-shreds-asa-hutchinson-over-transgender-treatments-for-kids">Asa Hutchinson</a>, former South Carolina Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nikki-haley-reveals-what-shell-do-to-federal-agencies-if-elected">Nikki Haley</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ramaswamy-warns-of-back-pocket-manuever-in-biden-docs-case-if-he-wins-gop-nomination">Vivek Ramaswamy</a>.
Kelly made the remarks when asked in Florida by Daily Signal Senior Reporter Mary Margaret Olohan what she thought of the candidates.
&#8220;I thought that was the best I&#8217;ve seen Ron DeSantis,&#8221; Kelly said. &#8220;I think DeSantis is starting to find his groove. He&#8217;s getting better at this. It was the best he&#8217;s done on Ukraine and a number of other issues.&#8221;
Kelly said that she thought Hutchinson was done, that Scott and Haley had positive qualities but were not going anywhere in the polls and that Ramaswamy was &#8220;falling flat on the inspirational front, even though that&#8217;s his main game.&#8221;
&#8220;So I thought it was a DeSantis win,&#8221; said Kelly.
Kelly said that it was true that DeSantis&#8217; campaign has yet to kick things into high gear after an initial lackluster campaign launch on Twitter Spaces that was plagued with technical difficulties.
&#8220;But it is relatively early, and he&#8217;s got $150 million in his war chest,&#8221; she said. &#8220;So it&#8217;s too early to pronounce his campaign over. Having said that, it hasn&#8217;t been gangbusters. You know, he got sort of a false start with that Twitter Spaces thing. And he&#8217;s not a natural retail politician.&#8221;
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&#8220;But if you watch the guy enough, I think eventually he will win you over,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;He&#8217;s a little nerdy. He doesn&#8217;t have Trump&#8217;s charisma. But he&#8217;s a smart technocratic get&#8217;er done kind of guy. And I really think the number one thing he needs to do is get himself in front of adversarial liberal media and fight.&#8221;
Kelly pointed to Kari Lake, who lost her gubernatorial race in Arizona last election cycle, and said that Lake exploded in the Republican Party solely because of how combative she was in a few interviews.
Kelly said that if Lake could do it, who she said only had a tiny fraction of DeSantis&#8217; success, DeSantis could quickly get things headed back on the upswing.
&#8220;He should get out there and fight,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And you know what do people love about Trump? He&#8217;s combative. He never backs down. He gets in your face. DeSantis has that too. He just hasn&#8217;t been putting himself in the situations where he could show it.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/megynkelly?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@megynkelly</a> thinks Ron DeSantis was the clear winner of Friday&#39;s town hall. And she has some advice for him: “Go on MSNBC! That’s what I would tell him to do.&quot; 
&quot;He should get out there and fight.&quot;<a href="https://t.co/BSmfeZzRjS">pic.twitter.com/BSmfeZzRjS</a>
&mdash; Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1680603086765662212?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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