‘The View’ Host Sunny Hostin Doesn’t Buy That Racist Text Got Tucker Carlson Fired: ‘Fox Knew This About Him’ (Video)

thewrap.com:

new bombshell text sent by ex-Fox News host Tucker Carlson was published by The New York Times on Tuesday that reportedly was the catalyst to his ouster from the network in which he spewed more of his racist vitriol.

But “The View” host Sunny Hostin just isn’t buying that idea, considering “Fox knew” about his racism.In the text, which was written the day after the Jan.

6 insurrection, Carlson wrote about an apparent desire to support a group of Trump supporters, who “surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living s–t out of him.”“Suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him,” Carlson wrote. “I really wanted them to hurt the kid.

I could taste it. Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: this isn’t good for me. I’m becoming something I don’t want to be.”He noted that “jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously,” and is “not how white men fight.” According to the Times, the text alarmed Fox executives so severely that they launched an immediate investigation into Carlson’s conduct, which in turn led to his firing.