Tucker Carlson Mused About ‘Threatening People’ to Stop Fox News’ Negative Trump Coverage, 2020 Texts Reveal

Texts leaked to Daily Beast show how worried the recently fired host was about the network’s election-related ratings drop

Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson (Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

In Jan. 2021, Tucker Carlson told a Fox News colleague that he hated Donald Trump “passionately.” But less than two months earlier he was singing a dramatically different tune, newly leaked texts reveal.

In an exchange with his senior producer, obtained by the Daily Beast (yes, it’s yet more leaked evidence that emerged during discovery in the Dominion defamation lawsuit against Fox News), the recently fired host was so upset about the unusually negative coverage Fox was giving Trump that he said he was “happy to start threating people” to make it stop.

The text exchange happened Nov.

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