Are you a billionaire in trouble? Why not try coming out as a Republican and fully pivoting into very public complaints about the “woke agenda?” That’s precisely what Sam Bankman-Fried was thinking, according to newly released notes made by the crypto fraudster after FTX’s stunning collapse in 2022. Will More Celebs Continue to Join Crypto? … Read more
Tucker Carlson interviewed someone claiming to be Kate Middleton’s photo editor — but who was actually just a prankster, something TC and co. caught onto, but not before talking to this bloke on camera. Here’s the deal … Joshua Pieters — a very popular prankster on social media — sent an email to Tucker’s team … Read more
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is facing a fresh wave of criticism over his controversial interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week — and his subsequent comments that “every leader kills people” — following the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Friday. Navalny died suddenly in an Arctic Russian prison colony … Read more
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) slammed Tucker Carlson over a clip where he praised a Russian grocery store experience during his widely condemned Moscow trip. “Ah yes, Russia is so much better than the U.S. with all those cheap groceries and lavish subway stations!,” wrote Tillis in response to clipsthat Carlson shared from the trip Wednesday. … Read more
Tucker Carlson’s interview last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin was so soft that even Putin thought it was a letdown. “To be honest, I thought that he would behave aggressively and ask so-called sharp questions,” he said told interviewer Pavel Zarubin, according to a Reuters translation. “I was not just prepared for this, I … Read more
Tucker Carlson had a curious defense of Vladimir Putin in his first interview since interviewing the Russian autocrat, saying “Every leader kills people, leadership requires killing.” Carlson’s remarks were made at the 2024 World Government Summit in Dubai, where he was interviewed by Egyptian journalist Emad Eldin Adeeb. Adeeb asked Carlson why he neglected to … Read more
KYIV — Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host, thought Vladimir Putin went to war in Ukraine because he feared an imminent attack by the United States or NATO. Instead, after a two-hour interview of the Russian president in Moscow, Carlson said he was “shocked” to learn that Putin invaded for a different reason: “Vladimir … Read more
This week, Tucker Carlson conducted an interview with Vladimir Putin for his show on X. The interview, which is over two hours long, was ostensibly an attempt to interview the Russian leader about the war in Ukraine. Instead of doing that, however, Putin instead launched into a lengthy digression about his own version of Russian … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin sat down in the Kremlin for a two-hour interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, pushing his views on the justification for the nearly 2-year-old war in Ukraine, the prospects of peace talks, and other issues. He also touched on the arrest of Evan Gershkovich, an American journalist for The … Read more
“Across social media, Kremlin sources have moved quickly to take advantage of Tucker Carlson’s interview as an opportunity to amplify propaganda aimed at building support for Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine,” Ben Scott, director at Reset, a London-based nonprofit that tracks disinformation campaigns, tells WIRED. This blanket coverage was repeated across Russia’s state-run media. Newsroom … Read more