Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, fed up with the allegations being peddled that convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein had worked for the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, issued a statement condemning those who purveyed such a notion in a desire to harm the Jewish state.
The allegations that Epstein may have worked for the Mossad have been pushed openly by influencers on the Right, such as <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/tucker-carlson-suggests-jeffrey-epstein-was-working-for-israels-mossad-spy-agency/">Tucker Carlson,</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PtBr4Brp12U">Megyn Kelly</a>, and Charlie Kirk, among others. Carlson went so far as to <a href="https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1943833522344755521">imply</a> that Israel was “committing crimes on our soil.”
“As a former Israeli Prime Minister, with the Mossad having reported directly to me, I say to you with 100% certainty: The accusation that Jeffrey Epstein somehow worked for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring is categorically and totally false,” Bennett wrote on X. “Epstein’s conduct, both the criminal and the merely despicable, had nothing whatsoever to do with the Mossad or the State of Israel. Epstein never worked for the Mossad. This accusation is a lie being peddled by prominent online personalities such as Tucker Carlson pretending they know things they don’t. They just make things up, say it with confidence and these lies stick, because it’s Israel. There’s a vicious wave of slander and lies against my country and my people, and we just won’t take it anymore.”
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As a former Israeli Prime Minister, with the Mossad having reported directly to me, I say to you with 100% certainty:
The accusation that Jeffrey Epstein somehow worked for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring is categorically and totally false. 
Epstein’s conduct,…
&mdash; Naftali Bennett נפתלי בנט (@naftalibennett) <a href="https://twitter.com/naftalibennett/status/1944721571555270793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/jeffrey-epstein-documents-woody-allen-larry-summers-edb3e9b2?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAhXVtdTlCTnGZDiERtnXgINffkfg2C25hQmsNPfzt08SI1zfEvjPUN0yCU1eHg%3D&amp;gaa_ts=687524df&amp;gaa_sig=GsX86L0NYenWcSz_5QnUD8Qes-wzV64xmMZgg9JgKvVt_z9meYIFYInVkjhV6aOkXBIfbDRoN1Jt_5fk3uL1_A%3D%3D">noted</a> that Epstein had met numerous celebrities and politicians between 2013 and 2017, including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, hard-core leftist and Israel-hater Noam Chomsky, Eva Andersson-Dubin, the wife of hedge-fund billionaire Glenn Dubin, leftist donor Reid Hoffman, filmmaker Woody Allen, Norwegian diplomat Terje Rød-Larsen, former Treasury secretary and onetime Harvard University president Lawrence Summers, and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, the leader of the leftists in Israel opposed to Israeli prime minister Bibi Netanyahu.

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President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, who has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-lays-into-kooky-tucker-carlson-over-opposition-to-israeli-strikes-on-iran?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Lays+Into+%E2%80%98Kooky%E2%80%99+Tucker+Carlson+Over+Opposition+To+Israeli+Strikes+On+Iran">criticizing</a> Trump over the Middle East conflict, called him to &#8220;apologize&#8221; for saying things &#8220;that were a little bit too strong.&#8221;
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump addressed the ongoing debate among some on the Right about the conflict between Israel and Iran. He dismissed a question that suggested the Israeli strikes are &#8220;dividing&#8221; his supporters.
&#8220;No, my supporters are for me. My supporters are for America First and Make America Great Again,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;My supporters don&#8217;t want to see Iran have a nuclear weapon. Tucker&#8217;s a nice guy. He called and apologized the other day because he thought he said things that were a little bit too strong.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s comments came after Carlson interviewed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) over foreign policy in a discussion that quickly turned into a heated debate on Israel and Iran during an episode of Carlson&#8217;s podcast that was released on Wednesday.
The president added that &#8220;Ted Cruz is a nice guy. He&#8217;s been with me for a long time.&#8221; Trump said that &#8220;nobody thinks it&#8217;s okay&#8221; for Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t want a fight, either. I&#8217;m not looking for a fight,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;But if it&#8217;s a choice between fighting and them having a nuclear weapon, you have to do what you have to do. And maybe we won&#8217;t have to fight. Don&#8217;t forget, we haven&#8217;t been fighting. We add a certain amount of genius to everything, but we haven&#8217;t been fighting.&#8221;
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🚨NEW — President Trump says Tucker Carlson called him and apologized:
&quot;Tucker&#39;s a nice guy. He called and apologized&#8230;because he thought he said things that were a little bit too strong.&quot;
&quot;If they think that it&#39;s okay for Iran to have a nuclear weapon, then they should oppose… <a href="https://t.co/GEz1WjYlRx">pic.twitter.com/GEz1WjYlRx</a>
&mdash; Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1935419082733490666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Earlier this week, Carlson said Trump was &#8220;complicit in an act of war&#8221; after Israel struck military targets and nuclear facilities in Iran. Carlson added in his newsletter that “This Could Be the Final Newsletter Before All-Out War.” Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-lays-into-kooky-tucker-carlson-over-opposition-to-israeli-strikes-on-iran?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Lays+Into+%E2%80%98Kooky%E2%80%99+Tucker+Carlson+Over+Opposition+To+Israeli+Strikes+On+Iran">responded</a> to Carlson&#8217;s criticism, writing on Truth Social on Monday, “Somebody please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that, ‘IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!’”
In another statement responding to criticism over his allegiance to an &#8220;America First&#8221; foreign policy, Trump <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-america-first-iran-israel-strikes-rcna213299">said</a> earlier this week, &#8220;Well, considering that I’m the one that developed ‘America First,’ and considering that the term wasn’t used until I came along, I think I’m the one that decides that. For those people who say they want peace—you can’t have peace if Iran has a nuclear weapon. So for all of those wonderful people who don’t want to do anything about Iran having a nuclear weapon—that’s not peace.&#8221;
Cruz <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/off-the-rails-ted-cruz-rips-tucker-carlson-for-going-bat-crap-crazy-on-foreign-policy?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=13&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=%E2%80%98Off+The+Rails%E2%80%99%3A+Ted+Cruz+Rips+Tucker+Carlson+For+Going+%E2%80%98Bat+Crap+Crazy%E2%80%99+On+Foreign+Policy">ripped</a> Carlson earlier on Wednesday, arguing that he has gone “bat crap crazy” in adopting “hardcore isolationist” views. Carlson, meanwhile, criticized Cruz during their interview for not knowing the population of Iran, as the senator calls for regime change in the radical Islamic country.
&#8220;I want to stop a lunatic who wants to murder us from getting nuclear weapons that could kill millions of Americans,&#8221; Cruz told Carlson.
&#8220;Fair,&#8221; Carlson responded.

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Wenesday blasted conservative commentator Tucker Carlson over his foreign policy stance, saying that the former Fox News host has gone &#8220;bat crap crazy&#8221; in adopting &#8220;hardcore isolationist&#8221; views.
On his podcast, &#8220;<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/israel-vs-iran-whos-winning-whats-next-will-america/id1495601614?i=1000713386485">Verdict with Ted Cruz</a>,&#8221; the Texas senator previewed an interview he had with Carlson slated to drop on Carlson&#8217;s podcast on Wednesday. During the discussion, Cruz and Carlson get into a heated debate over Iran and President Donald Trump&#8217;s position on the Middle East conflict.
&#8220;I agree with Tucker on 80% of the issues &#8230; during the idiotic COVID lockdowns, Tucker&#8217;s monologue every night on Fox was the single best thing on television, which I told him at the time, and I agree with him,&#8221; Cruz said after recording the interview with Carlson. &#8220;I will say on foreign policy, Tucker has gone bat crap crazy. He&#8217;s gone off the rails. He is suddenly a hardcore isolationist.&#8221;
Cruz added that he knew going into the interview with Carlson that it would be a &#8220;rough and tumble fight&#8221; over foreign policy, especially after Israel launched an attack on Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities and military leaders last week.
&#8220;Tucker has spent the last several days attacking Donald Trump,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;He&#8217;s blasted Trump as &#8216;complicit&#8217; in this horrible attack, and he keeps saying World War III is going to happen. He&#8217;s just been over the top.&#8221;
The senator said the two-hour interview with Carlson immediately became &#8220;combative,&#8221; with Carlson &#8220;throwing haymakers.&#8221; A <a href="https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1935136085266387417">short clip</a> of the interview posted by Carlson on X shows the conservative commentator asking Cruz about the population of Iran, a question that Cruz couldn&#8217;t answer.
&#8220;How could you not know that?&#8221; Carlson asked.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t sit around memorizing population tables,&#8221; Cruz replied.
&#8220;Well, it&#8217;s kind of relevant because you&#8217;re calling for the overthrow of the government,&#8221; Carlson said.
Cruz shot back, &#8220;Why is it relevant whether it&#8217;s 90 million or 80 million or 100 million? Why is that relevant?&#8221;
Cruz added on Wednesday morning that Carlson criticized Trump throughout the interview and &#8220;spends 20 minutes&#8221; talking about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and &#8220;how he thinks the AIPAC lobby is dominating American foreign policy.&#8221;
&#8220;It was just unhinged, and I get there are conspiracy sections of the internet that are worried that AIPAC is running the world. It&#8217;s just not reality,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And [Carlson] didn&#8217;t like it when I called him out on it, and I did.&#8221;
The senator also accused Carlson of denying that Iran has attempted to assassinate President Trump, despite the Department of Justice <a href="https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-murder-hire-and-related-charges-against-irgc-asset-and-two">charging</a> an Iranian in November who it accuses of being &#8220;tasked by the Iranian Regime with surveilling and plotting to assassinate President-Elect Donald J. Trump.&#8221;
&#8220;He just said, &#8216;That&#8217;s not true. I&#8217;ve never heard anything about it. I don&#8217;t know anything about it,&#8221; Cruz added. &#8220;Well, it happens to be a fact. It happens to be that the DOJ has indicted Iranian hitmen for attempting to murder Donald Trump.&#8221;
Earlier this week, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-lays-into-kooky-tucker-carlson-over-opposition-to-israeli-strikes-on-iran?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Lays+Into+%E2%80%98Kooky%E2%80%99+Tucker+Carlson+Over+Opposition+To+Israeli+Strikes+On+Iran">called out</a> Carlson over his views on the Middle East conflict, writing on Truth Social, “Somebody please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that, ‘IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!’”
Later in his podcast, Cruz said that isolationism and interventionism are &#8220;both wrong&#8221; approaches to foreign policy.
&#8220;I&#8217;m a non-interventionist hawk. I am very reluctant to engage in military conflict, just like Trump is,&#8221; Cruz added. &#8220;But I also believe in peace through strength. The best way you avoid war is being strong enough that your enemies don&#8217;t want to stand up to you.&#8221;

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‘Off The Rails’: Ted Cruz Rips Tucker Carlson For Going ‘Bat Crap Crazy’ On Foreign Policy

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President Donald Trump spent part of his Monday trolling Tucker Carlson after the former Fox News host questioned the president’s handling of Iran and conflict in the Middle East.
Last week in a newsletter, Carlson accused Trump of being “complicit” in Israel’s strikes against Iran that sparked the current days-long exchange between the two Middle Eastern powers. The newsletter <a href="https://x.com/yashar/status/1933530302120669523">arrived</a> in the inboxes of Carlson’s readers under the headline: “This Could Be the Final Newsletter Before All-Out War.”
“Earlier this week, unnamed Washington sources expressed concern over Israel’s ability to fend off Iran’s retaliation, which would inevitably lead to Benjamin Netanyahu ordering the American military to step in and fight on his country’s behalf,” Carlson wrote. “On Thursday, Iran’s president threatened to ‘destroy’ any country that eliminates his government’s nuclear facilities. Now, the world will learn what that looks like.”
Trump responded to Carlson’s criticisms while attending the Group of Seven Summit in Canada.
“Somebody please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that, ‘IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!’” Trump posted on <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114695595047194931">Truth Social</a> on Monday evening.
Earlier in the day, Trump dismissed a question from a reporter on Carlson’s concerns.
“I don&#8217;t know what Tucker Carlson is saying. Let him go get a television network and say it so that people listen,” said Trump, appearing to jab at Carlson over his exit from Fox News. Carlson now runs his own media business, the Tucker Carlson Network, and hosts a popular interview podcast.
Trump’s support for Israel and his Middle East policy appears to have alienated Carlson, as well as other isolationist-minded supporters. The comic Dave Smith recently called for Trump’s impeachment over the president’s handling of Iran.
“I supported him this last year. I apologize for doing so. It was a bad calculation. At the time, it seemed like the right one, but he should be impeached and removed for this one,” Smith <a href="https://x.com/krystalball/status/1934628084390543399">said</a> on a recent episode of “Breaking Points.” “All of his supporters should turn on him. It&#8217;s the absolute betrayal of everything that he ran and campaigned on and everything that he stood for.”

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Trump Lays Into ‘Kooky’ Tucker Carlson Over Opposition To Israeli Strikes On Iran

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President Trump’s strategy regarding Iran has been remarkable.
The President of the United States has — with no use of American military personnel — devastated the Iranian nuclear resources to the point that Iran is begging the Americans to come to the table now.
Trump has said that all options are still on the table. It may be that if the Iranian nuclear site Fordow is still in operation a couple of weeks from now or a week from now, and the Iranians will not come to the table, there may be one B-2 sortie in Fordow — with no capacity for Iran to fire back because Israel has already destroyed all of the ballistic missiles that would be aimed at any place that threatens Americans.
The danger is that if Iran retains the nuclear fuel it has already enriched, as well as the centrifuges to enrich more, the country could sprint to make a bomb. This is where the United States comes in. Israel lacks the deep penetrating bombs and the heavy bombers to deliver them that could do more damage to buried sites such as Fordow. President Trump endorsed the initial Israeli attacks, but he continues to suggest the bombing could increase the chances of negotiating a deal to dismantle Iran&#8217;s nuclear program.
Meanwhile, President Trump is using the Israelis as the bad cop while he is the good cop.
He is saying to the Iranians that the Israelis are doing what they&#8217;re going to do, and we don&#8217;t control them. They&#8217;re their own country. They can do what they&#8217;re doing, and you can continue to weather that as best you can. But, he’s saying, at a certain point, if this continues and you won&#8217;t give up Fordow, there might be a B-2 headed your way. Or maybe we&#8217;ll find some other way with Israel. Maybe Israel will do it on its own. We just don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going to happen next.
President Trump has played this absolutely brilliantly. If you had told people, just a few years ago, that Iran&#8217;s nuclear regime would be on the precipice of collapse with zero regional fallout — zero — and the United States would not have expended a single offensive missile in that effort, people would have thought that that was genius level stuff.
You know why?
Because it is genius level stuff.
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Meanwhile, there are people on the Right who have now declared that they are the leaders of MAGA, not Donald Trump, that they are the great leaders of America First and MAGA.
Tucker Carlson put out a statement on Friday in his newsletter, in which he stated that President Trump was “complicit in the act of war.” The newsletter was dramatically titled, “This Could Be the Final Newsletter Before All-Out War,” suggesting World War III could break out as a result of the Israel-Iran war. 
He wrote:
<blockquote>While the American military may not have physically perpetrated the assault, years of funding and sending weapons to Israel, which Donald Trump just bragged about on Truth Social, undeniably place the U.S. at the center of last night’s events. Washington knew these attacks would happen. They aided Israel in carrying them out. Politicians purporting to be America First can’t now credibly turn around and say they had nothing to do with it. Our country is in deep.</blockquote>
While Donald Trump has been speaking about America First, only Tucker Carlson, who tours Moscow supermarkets to talk about how good the bread is and how he wishes that our subway system ran just like Moscow&#8217;s; only Tucker Carlson, who does interviews with the leadership of Qatar and talks about how they are an amazing ally to the United States while they simultaneously support Hamas; only Tucker Carlson, who hosts people like Darryl Cooper, whom he calls the “greatest and most honest historian in America” — the same guy who over the weekend suggested that America should launch missiles against Tel Aviv — only Tucker Carlson is truly America first, not Donald Trump.
Not Donald Trump, who built the America First movement, who built MAGA; only Tucker Carlson and his friends are truly MAGA in America First.
Over the weekend, Carlson doubled down, <a href="https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1933620743406801038">claiming:</a>
<blockquote>The real divide isn&#8217;t between people who support Israel and people who support around the Palestinians. The real divide is between those who casually encourage violence and those who seek to prevent it. Between warmongers and peacemakers.</blockquote>
This is Tucker’s shtick: that anyone who opposes him is a warmonger who wants more war, who just loves war.
Okay. Who are the people who love and desperately want war? <a href="https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1933620743406801038">He says</a>:
<blockquote>Who are the warmongers? They would include anyone who’s calling Donald Trump today to demand air strikes and other direct U.S. military involvement in a war with Iran. On that list: Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Rupert Murdoch, Ike Perlmutter and Miriam Adelson. At some point they will all have to answer for this, but you should know their names now.</blockquote>
First of all, I&#8217;m not aware that any of those people are directly calling Donald Trump and saying that he must directly intervene in this current conflict. Second of all, he is suggesting that you&#8217;re a warmonger if you want the Iranian nuclear program to end.
So I guess Donald Trump is a warmonger because Donald Trump wants the nuclear program to end. And you know who said Trump wants the nuclear program to end? Donald Trump. You know who the actual leader of MAGA is? Donald Trump. He created MAGA.
It is Donald Trump who created the America First movement. 
It is not Tucker Carlson, and it is not Marjorie Taylor Greene, who similarly <a href="https://x.com/RepMTG/status/1934375883332046933">put out a tweet</a> saying:
<blockquote>Everyone is finding out who are the real America First MAGA and who are fake and just said it bc it was popular. &#8230; Anyone slobbering for the U.S. to become fully involved in the Israel/Iran war is not America First/MAGA.</blockquote>
So Donald Trump is not the real America First MAGA. Only Marjorie Taylor Greene, an obscure congresswoman from Georgia until Donald Trump tapped her on the head, is the real America First MAGA.
By the way, who are the people who are slobbering for the U.S. to become “fully involved?”
No one has called for a ground invasion of Iran. No one has suggested that the United States ought to be fully involved in a gigantic takeover of Iran in regime rebuilding. No one is calling for that.
Even if you are calling for a single airstrike on Fordow, you know what that looks like? It looks like a single airstrike on Qasem Soleimani, which President Trump did in 2020 and was ripped by people like Tucker Carlson, who said that it was going to turn into a regional war.
Here&#8217;s my big question for folks like Tucker, when he suggests that there are these people who are calling Donald Trump and demanding he do things they want: Whom does he think is the decision-maker?
The decision maker in the White House is Donald J. Trump.
Donald Trump has taken the same position on the Iranian nuclear program since the first minute he came down the golden escalator. He has not changed one iota. 
What a low opinion Tucker Carlson must have of Donald Trump&#8217;s capacities. He thinks that he can manipulate him from the outside, or that others are manipulating him in that particular way.
President Trump fired back at all of this over the weekend. In an interview with The Atlantic, he responded to Carlson and others of his ilk, saying bluntly, “Well, considering that I’m the one that developed ‘America First,’ and considering that the term wasn’t used until I came along, I think I’m the one that decides that. For those people who say they want peace—you can’t have peace if Iran has a nuclear weapon. So for all of those wonderful people who don’t want to do anything about Iran having a nuclear weapon—that’s not peace.” 
The same people who are attacking Trump have predicted that BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) are going to get involved in this in some form or fashion.
President Trump is not one of those people because he&#8217;s not a stupid person.
Nothing has changed with Trump; he has been absolutely consistent on this issue.
As all the isolationists are horseshoeing around and having fun, happy times with all of their friends on the Left retweeting each other, you should take note of who these people are and what they actually believe about the President of the United States, about America First, and about MAGA.
Not to mention their complete acquiescence to the idea that a nuclear Iran would be fine for the world: an asinine notion rejected by anyone with half a brain.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/megyn-kelly">Megyn Kelly</a> said her show isn’t beholden to anyone, and called reports that her podcast had been acquired “misleading BS” after Fox Corp announced it had purchased Red Seat Ventures, a digital media company.
In a post on Monday on <a href="https://x.com/megynkelly/status/1888999105365483764">X</a>, the host of “The Megyn Kelly Show” podcast reacted to a <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/fox-acquires-red-seat-ventures/">Wrap</a> headline that read, “Fox Acquires Red Seat Ventures, Home to Megyn Kelly and Other Fox News Alumni.” 
“Look at this misleading BS,” Kelly wrote to her millions of followers. “No one has acquired my show’s ‘home.’ The 3d party firm that sells my ADS has been acquired. That’s all. The ⁦<a href="https://x.com/MegynKellyShow">@MegynKellyShow</a>⁩ is NOT controlled or owned by anyone other than ME.”
In a second <a href="https://x.com/megynkelly/status/1888999967747920087">post</a>, Kelly hit back again at a Reuters headline that read, “Fox Corp acquires Red Seat Ventures to tap podcast market.”
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Look at this misleading BS. No one has acquired my show’s “home.” The 3d party firm that sells my ADS has been acquired. Thats all. The ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/MegynKellyShow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MegynKellyShow</a>⁩ is NOT controlled or owned by anyone other than ME. <a href="https://t.co/fPmVVCl3Is">https://t.co/fPmVVCl3Is</a>
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) <a href="https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1888999105365483764?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
“NO, it doesn’t. We are 100% INDEPENDENT. Fox bought the co that sells our ads, period,” the podcast host wrote. She included a quote in her post from the article that claimed the “deal brings [Bill] O&#8217;Reilly, [Megyn] Kelly and [Tucker] Carlson back in the Murdoch fold, though Red Seat Ventures will operate independently within Fox&#8217;s Tubi Media Group…”
CEO of Red Seat Ventures, Chris Balfe, told The Wrap that by teaming up with Fox, “we will be able to build upon that investment and expand the services we provide to our creators, while continuing to maintain the independence and integrity of their brands, which is truly the best case scenario.”
Red Seat Ventures will operate under Fox’s Tubi Media group, with Tubi CEO Paul Cheesbrough, becoming the company’s chairman.
Cheesbrough said that he sees “tremendous opportunities” for the company to jump into other genres beyond its strength in right-leaning political shows, including sports and entertainment, the outlet noted.
“The creator economy is one of the fastest growing media categories worldwide by measure of reach and influence, and consumers are increasingly looking to get their information, insights and entertainment directly from the voices and brands they trust across these platforms,” Cheesbrough added.
In 2020, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/okay-groomer-megyn-kelly-slams-transgender-push-on-her-third-grader-says-its-like-they-are-trying-recruit">Kelly</a> launched the creation of her own <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bumps-and-bruises-megyn-kellys-transformation-from-fox-news-anchor-to-running-her-own-hit-podcast-show">production company</a>, “Devil May Care Media,” and her first show hit the air on September 28, 2020 —  after she&#8217;d spent more than a decade at Fox News as a host of her own show and a year at NBC as a morning show host.
A year later, she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/over-the-bulls-censorship-megyn-kelly-debuts-new-siriusxm-show">announced</a> “The Megyn Kelly Show” podcast was moving to SiriusXM. The host recently <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTeLeuK26J8">celebrated</a> that the show had aired its 1,000th episode.
“Thanks to all of you, we made it here … Thanks to all of you, my team, and our audience for making this happen … When we launched this podcast, we were in New York, and we were in the kids&#8217; playroom, in a little corner with literally a desk Abby got off of either Wayfair or from IKEA,&#8221; Kelly said. &#8220;It was like $100. I think she assembled it … There were four of us … and we hoped it would work out. But who knew?”
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Leftist blogger Timony Burke was arrested by federal law enforcement officials on Thursday and charged with 14 crimes for allegedly illegally accessing videos of former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fox-news" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> host Tucker Carlson while he was still at the network.
The federal indictment says that Burke worked with a co-conspirator, who was not named, to hack Fox News&#8217; systems and leak damaging unaired footage of Carlson&#8217;s interview with Kanye West that showed the now-disgraced rapper making anti-Semitic remarks. Other unaired footage of Carlson was also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-raids-democrat-politicians-home-over-hack-of-tucker-carlson-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leaked</a> to Media Matters.
Burke &#8220;played multiple roles in the conspiracy, including utilizing compromised credentials to gain unauthorized access to protected computers, scouring those protected computers for electronic items and information, obtaining and stealing electronic items and information deemed desirable, organizing and exploiting some of those electronic items and information, and intercepting and disclosing the contents of wire, oral, and/or electronic video communications,&#8221; the indictment <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flmd.424438/gov.uscourts.flmd.424438.1.0_1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Burke was charged with one count of Conspiracy; six counts of Intentionally Accessing Protected Computer Without Authorization; five counts of Intentional Interception of a Wire, Oral, or Electronic Communication; and two counts of Intentionally Disclosing Illegally Intercepted Wire, Oral, or Electronic Communication.
The FBI raided Burke&#8217;s home — which he shares with his wife, far-Left Tampa City Council member Lynn Hurtak — in May 2023.
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“It’s not hacking, it’s just good investigative journalism,” claimed Burke&#8217;s attorney, Michael Maddux, before entering court on Thursday. “We obviously emphatically deny these charges and we’re looking forward to the opportunity to defend him and exonerate him.”

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Political commentator Tucker Carlson pressed Russian President Vladimir Putin during an interview this week to release Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich from prison so he can return to the U.S.
Carlson made the ask at the end of an interview that lasted longer than two hours and was posted to social media Thursday evening. Carlson did not ask about other Americans who were locked up inside Russia, including <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/some-americans-jailed-in-russia-fear-being-left-behind-483cf3ff">Paul Whelan and Marc Fogel</a>.
Nearly the entire first half of the interview was Putin sharing his version of Russia&#8217;s history and offering his justifications for why he invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
During various moments in the interview, Putin appeared to take some subtle shots at Carlson, in an apparent attempt to throw him off balance, including at the very beginning when he asked Carlson if they were &#8220;having a talk show or a serious conversation.&#8221;
Another instance where Putin threw shade at Carlson happened when Putin claimed that the U.S. orchestrated a &#8220;coup d&#8217;etat&#8221; in Ukraine that resulted in former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich being forced out of office.
When Carlson asked Putin who backed what he claimed was a coup, Putin responded: &#8220;With the backing of CIA, of course, the organization you wanted to join back in the day, as I understand. We should thank God they didn&#8217;t let you in. Although it is a serious organization, I understand.&#8221;
Carlson repeatedly pressed Putin about what it would take for him to end the war in Ukraine so the region could have peace, to which Putin said that the U.S. must stop supplying Ukraine with the weapons that it needs to fight.
&#8220;If you really want to stop fighting, you need to stop supplying weapons,&#8221; Putin said. &#8220;It will be over within a few weeks.&#8221;
Putin also highlighted a law that Ukraine&#8217;s president <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/10/04/zelensky-signs-law-declaring-talks-with-putin-impossible/">signed</a> that said the country will not negotiate with Putin, declaring it &#8220;impossible&#8221; to negotiate with the dictator.
The Russian leader would not disclose what President Joe Biden said to him the last time they talked, saying that if Carlson wanted to know that, he should go ask Biden himself.
Putin said that people should not be concerned about the war becoming a global nuclear conflict and that those fears were coming from people &#8220;trying to fuel the Russian threat.&#8221;
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Putin claimed that he had no desire to invade countries like &#8220;Poland, Latvia, or anywhere else&#8221; unless they were to attack Russia.
&#8220;Why would we do that? We simply don&#8217;t have any interest,&#8221; he claimed. &#8220;It&#8217;s just threat mongering.&#8221;
Carlson pushed back on Putin after he accused the U.S. of blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline, asking him why he would not present the evidence that he claims he had that proved it was the United States. Carlson also pressed Putin over why Germany was being silent about the matter considering that it impacted their economy.
Putin took opportunities during the interview to undermine the U.S. dollar, the U.S. economy, and the West while promoting communist China and Russia&#8217;s alliances.
Various important topics were not discussed, including the mysterious deaths of numerous powerful Russians over the last couple of years to Russian cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure to former Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin organizing a revolt against the Russian government last year.
At the end of the interview, Carlson lobbied Putin to release Gershkovich, 32, &#8220;as a sign of decency&#8221; so that Carlson could bring him back to the U.S.
&#8220;We have done so many gestures of goodwill out of decency that I think we have run out of them,&#8221; Putin said. &#8220;We have never seen anyone reciprocate to us in a similar manner. However, in theory, we can say that we do not rule out that we can do that if our partners take reciprocal steps. When I talk about the partners, I first of all refer to special services. Special services are in contact with one another. They are talking about the matter in question. There is no taboo to settle this issue. We are willing to solve it, but there are certain terms being discussed via special services channels. I believe an agreement can be reached.&#8221;
Putin accused Gershkovich of obtaining &#8220;secret information&#8221; through a &#8220;conspiratorial manner,&#8221; which he said amounted to spying.
&#8220;And that is exactly what he was doing,&#8221; Putin claimed. &#8220;He was receiving classified, confidential information, and he did it covertly. Maybe he did that out of carelessness or his own initiative. Considering the sheer fact that this [qualifies as] espionage. The fact has been proven as he was caught red handed when he was receiving this information. If it had been some farfetched excuse, some fabrication, something not proven, it would have been a different story then. But he was caught red handed when he was secretly getting confidential information.&#8221;
Putin said that he thought the reporter was working for U.S. intelligence and that he was &#8220;getting classified information,&#8221; presumably from the Russian government, &#8220;in secret [which] is called espionage.&#8221;
When Putin tried to deflect by bringing up a completely different example of someone being imprisoned in a foreign country, Carlson pushed back, noting that the example he gave was &#8220;completely different&#8221; and that Gershkovich was just a reporter.
&#8220;He&#8217;s not just a journalist. I reiterate,&#8221; Putin said. &#8220;He&#8217;s a journalist who is secretly getting confidential information.&#8221;
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Tucker Carlson Presses Vladimir Putin To Release U.S. Journalist From Custody

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Members of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/european-union" target="_blank" rel="noopener">European Parliament</a> are calling for sanctions against Tucker Carlson after he announced an interview with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Carlson posted a <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1754939251257475555" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> to X on Tuesday announcing that he was in Moscow to interview Putin. Carlson’s sit-down with the Russian president is the first time Putin agreed to speak with a Western newsperson since Russia invaded Ukraine two years ago.
European Parliament member Guy Verhofstadt, former prime minister of Belgium, said the bloc should consider imposing a “travel ban” on Carlson for serving as a “mouthpiece” for Putin.
“As Putin is a war criminal and the EU sanctions all who assist him in that effort, it seems logical that the External Action Service examine his case as well,” Verhofstadt told <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-sanctions-eu-putin-interview-1867655" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsweek</a>.
The External Action Service (EAS) oversees foreign policy for the European Union, handling such issues as diplomacy and sanctions. The EAS can choose to review a potential new addition to the E.U.’s sanction list. If the EAS finds the evidence convincing and sanctions warranted, it will present the case to the European Council, comprised of European government leaders, for approval.
Urmas Paet, a member of the European Parliament from Estonia, <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/european-parliament-proposes-ban-tucker-142022416.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">backed</a> a travel ban against Carlson in remarks made to Ukrainian news.
“Carlson wants to give a platform to someone accused of crimes of genocide — this is wrong. If Putin has something to say he needs to say it in front of the ICC. At the same time Carlson is not being a real journalist since he has clearly expressed his sympathy for the Russian regime and Putin and has constantly disparaged Ukraine, the victim of Russian aggression,” Paet said. “So, for such propaganda for a criminal regime, you can end up on the list of sanctions. This concerns primarily a travel ban to E.U. countries.”
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Carlson’s interview with Putin has taken place since the Tuesday announcement, though it has yet to be released. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed to Newsweek Wednesday that the interview had been recorded, adding, “[Carlson’s] position is different from the others.”
“It is in no way pro-Russian, it is not pro-Ukrainian, it is pro-American, but at least it contrasts with the position of the traditional Anglo-Saxon media,” Peskov said.
It’s unclear how widespread support for sanctioning Carlson is among members of the E.U. Any potential sanction or travel ban against Carlson would likely take time to litigate and approve, if an effort moves forward at all.
The threats to sanction Carlson over the interview received blowback from conservative media in the U.S.
“The idea that Tucker would be sanctioned for engaging [in] free speech and journalism is the kind of thuggish tyranny one might expect from Vladimir Putin’s regime, not from democratic western governments,” posted Daily Wire co-founder Jeremy Boreing. “Even if Tucker flies rhetorical cover for Putin, a man with hundreds of nuclear weapons trained [on] us — and I hope he is sincere when he says that is not what he is there to do — he would still be well within his rights to do so.”
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The idea that Tucker would be sanctioned for engaging free speech and journalism is the kind of thuggish tyranny one might expect from Vladimir Putin’s regime, not from democratic western governments. 
Even if Tucker flies rhetorical cover for Putin, a man with hundreds of… <a href="https://t.co/8uSSBxT8QV">https://t.co/8uSSBxT8QV</a>
&mdash; Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing/status/1755367810996613128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Glenn Beck, founder of The Blaze, said: “So, you’re not allowed to interview dictators now?! Should we also expect sanctions for the New York Times, which fawned over Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler? How about Dan Rather for interviewing Saddam Hussein? Or Megyn Kelly for also interviewing Putin? This is what journalists do. They get BOTH sides of the story.”
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Reports are now claiming the EU might SANCTION <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TuckerCarlson</a> for interviewing Putin. Um…WHAT?! So, you’re not allowed to interview dictators now?!
Should we also expect sanctions for the New York Times, which fawned over Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler? 
How about Dan Rather…
&mdash; Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) <a href="https://twitter.com/glennbeck/status/1755343181929976057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2024</a></blockquote>
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EU Lawmakers Call For ‘Travel Ban’ On Tucker Carlson Over Putin Interview

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If you’re on the Right, then you know that the phrase “this is why we lose” has become something of a cliche. Anytime anyone on our side does anything we don’t like, we are bound to declare “this is why we lose,” as if that person is now a symbol for America’s cultural decline. In many cases, the “this is why we lose” charge can be off base, or at least overwrought and overstated. But not always.
So today we begin with an actual case of “this is why we lose.”
Over the past few days, there has been, seemingly out of nowhere, a full-court press by some on the Right to rehabilitate Bud Light and convince conservatives to drop the boycott of the company. Now, we know that some notable figures on this side of the aisle were never on board with the boycott in the first place. Famously, Donald Trump Jr. defended the beer maker from the beginning, saying Bud Light is on our side, despite appearances, and we shouldn’t punish them for their brief foray into trans propaganda. But Trump Jr. and others in that orbit were alone in their pro-Bud Light stance for many months, until just now.
This week, both UFC president Dana White and Kid Rock appeared in interviews with Tucker Carlson to declare their renewed support for Bud Light. Some other prominent voices, like Tim Pool, have come out to defend their position.
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In fairness to these guys, we will go through these clips one-by-one so you can hear their arguments for yourself. 
First, here’s Dana White:
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I’ll have plenty to say about the thrust of Dana’s argument after we play all of the clips, but I do want to point out one thing right away. Bud Light is a brand owned by a foreign conglomerate. Putting everything else aside, it’s very hard to make the case that it’s “patriotic” to support a foreign company. I’m not saying we can’t support foreign-owned brands. After all that’s most brands. I’m just saying it’s hard to cast your support for a Belgian multinational corporation as patriotic.
But we’ll get back to Dana’s point in a moment. First, here’s Kid Rock, also with Tucker, agreeing with Dana:
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Many people — myself certainly included — have found Kid Rock’s reasoning here less than compelling. 
But Tim Pool thinks that we’re all missing the point:
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Now, before I explain why this is all horribly wrong, let me begin by stipulating that I like all of these guys. I like Dana White and Kid Rock. Tim Pool’s show is great and I like him personally. I’m obviously a huge fan and supporter of Tucker Carlson and I think he’s one of the most important voices in the country right now. But the Bud Light boycott is still on, and let me explain why.
Bud Light — the foreign-owned brand — tried to push trans ideology. It spat in the face of its own customers. For once in our lives — for once, ever, in modern American history — conservatives fought back in an organized, competent, effective way. We organized a boycott and we stuck with it. We actually made the woke company feel the pain. We imposed our will in a way conservatives have never been able to do. 
The Bud Light boycott is by far (and It’s not close) the most effective conservative boycott of a major company of all-time. There isn’t even a close second. In fact, it’s fair to say this is not just the most effective but actually the only successful boycott we’ve ever staged.
We’d have to have a very compelling strategic reason to end this one single successful boycott campaign. We would have to have extracted some kind of major concession. But what concession have they made? They gave Dana White $100 million. So what? That’s not a concession, that’s not an apology — that’s a marketing ploy. Are we going to end the Bud Light boycott and start giving them our money because we like their new marketing plan? That wouldn’t be us ending a boycott victoriously. That would be a retreat. It would be the very definition of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Something the Right does very often, but never as egregiously and pathetically as this.
Now, as with any boycott campaign, I do agree that you need to give companies an out. You have to give them a way to get back in your good graces. The whole point of a boycott is that you’re withholding support in order to extract some kind of concession. If you get the concession, you win. And if you don’t get the concession then the company is just destroyed, and you win that way. So far we are winning the second way. Bud Light betrayed its customers, it has not conceded defeat, and so the entire company is in shambles. So be it.
What can Bud Light do to get out of this? What’s their out?
Well, they would need to apologize for pushing transgenderism. They would need to apologize specifically and explicitly. They would need to grovel at our feet, in humiliating fashion, and disavow gender ideology entirely. That’s what they would have to do. They haven’t done that. They refuse to do that. Instead, they are hoping they can simply change the subject. But a change of subject is not a concession. It’s not an apology. It’s a trick, a gimmick, a diversion tactic. If we fall for it then we deserve to lose. We deserve everything that’s coming.
Here’s the point. If you are boycotting a company and demanding some kind of concession, and you don’t get the concession, and then you back down anyway — you lose. You have taken your victory and traded it in, in exchange for a defeat. You have said, “No thanks, I’d rather not win. I’ll take a loss instead.”
That’s what it would be if we start supporting Bud Light now. They haven’t apologized. They haven’t conceded. So, screw them. Let them wither and die. Let their brand destroy itself. Let it burn. That’s what they’ve chosen. It’s what they’ll get. Unless we decide to bail them out because we don’t have the stomach to fight the culture war like wars need to be fought. Part of the pitch from guys like Dana White and Kid Rock seems to be a call for a weird sort of mercy.
I’ve even seen some on the Right arguing that we are called, as Christians, to forgive Bud Light for their transgressions. That is an actual argument I’ve seen from more than one person. But fighting back against culture rot, fighting against the people who are deliberately injecting perversion and moral insanity into our society, fighting against the corporate overlords behind it all, is not a time for mercy. These are not homeless, starving people on the street who need a helping hand. These are mega-billion-dollar corporations who are selling degeneracy for profit. If you manage to get your foot on one of their necks, you keep it there. You have no mercy until they grovel and beg and do exactly what you demand that they do. And, again, if we are not willing to do that, if we are not willing to be ruthless, if we will allow ourselves to be paid off, then there is no hope. We will never win this war. And we will not deserve to win anyway.
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Keep in mind the significance of the Bud Light boycott and the whole strategy behind it: We have turned this company into a cautionary tale. The whole point was to put its head on a spike as a warning to others. It’s a trophy for the mantle. We want to show corporate America this is what we will do — this is what we are capable of doing, and willing to do — if you spit in our face the way Bud Light did. But if we just put a dent in their sales for a couple of quarters, get no apology or concession at all, and then go back to supporting them, we will have taken their head off of the spike and put our own on it. We will have sent a very different kind of message to corporate America. We will have shown them that we are not willing to go for the kill shot. That ultimately we will always come crawling back, pathetically, with our tail between our legs.
But what’s happening now is even worse. This is not just an effort to end the Bud Light boycott. This is an effort to actively rehabilitate their brand. Because the truth is the boycott isn’t even really a boycott anymore. It’s worse than that for Bud Light. The problem has metastasized. We didn’t just boycott the company — we rebranded it. The brand itself now seem lame, effeminate, and embarrassing. Even people who don’t care about the boycott, or are only dimly aware of it, avoid drinking Bud Light just because they don’t want their friends to make fun of them. That’s why Bud Light is in such a dire situation.
Even if we officially ended the boycott, it wouldn’t necessarily matter. The brand is lame now. Customers don’t want to be associated with it. Which means that to really end the boycott, we would have to revitalize and repair Bud Light’s brand for them, which is what the Dana Whites and Kid Rocks of the world seem to be trying to do. This is like declaring victory in a war, accepting your enemy’s surrender, and then proceeding to give them back all the land you gained. You’re not just ending the war in that case. You are actively forfeiting your own gains. You aren’t just letting your enemy bow out. You are helping them repair the damage that they themselves caused.
Why would we do that? Why should we? What do we gain?
I know the UFC gains $100 million. But what about the rest of us? What about the movement? What about the culture? What do we get out of this “mercy”? Nothing. That’s the answer.
And on top of it all, it must be said, Bud Light sucks anyway. It’s a bad product. It tastes like stale rainwater scooped out of a murky puddle on the pavement. This is not just the most effective conservative boycott in history, but the easiest. Nobody with functioning tastebuds has any desire to drink that sludge anyway.
That’s what it comes down to. We can do what is effective, what is right, and also what is, at the same time, very easy. Or we can go out of our way to kneecap ourselves and turn an easy victory into a laborious defeat. Those are your options.
And really, you should not have any trouble making the choice.

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Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson announced Saturday the launch of a news subscription-based site, <a href="https://tuckercarlson.com/">TuckerCarlson.com</a>, where subscribers can gain access to exclusive content.
&#8220;Hey, it&#8217;s Tucker Carlson. We&#8217;ve been out of work for 7 or 8 months now, hard to know. Time flies when you&#8217;re unemployed, but actually we have been working in secret and producing an awful lot of material for months now, interviews, etc. And all of it has found its way to TuckerCarlson.com,&#8221; Carlson said in a video posted Saturday on X, along with a link to the website.
He also teased that the new site was just a part of a bigger venture, adding, &#8220;We&#8217;re launching a brand new thing very soon, and we&#8217;d love for you to see it. So go to TuckerCarlson.com to see it first.&#8221;
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The main page of the site prompts the visitor to &#8220;Join Team Tucker&#8221; by creating an account and becoming a &#8220;Founding Member.&#8221;
Carlson, whose program &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight&#8221; was the highest rated show on the network, was fired from Fox News back in April.
“FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways,” Fox News <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fox-replaces-tucker-with-jesse-watters">said</a> in a statement announcing Carlson’s exit on April 24. “We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor. Mr. Carlson’s last program was Friday April 21st. Fox News Tonight will air live at 8 PM/ET starting this evening as an interim show helmed by rotating FOX News personalities until a new host is named.”
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Since his departure from Fox News, Carlson has posted a series of monologues and interviews on X. Some prominent guests who have been featured on Carlson&#8217;s X series include former President Donald Trump, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton,  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), and Daily Wire host Candace Owens.
The series premiered on June 6, and 46 episodes have been released as of December 7.

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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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