Tucker Carlson Felt Trapped at Fox News, Newly-Released Texts Reveal: ‘I’ll Die Here’
thewrap.comConfider reported that text messages between Carlson and the network’s then-chief political anchor Bret Baier revealed that they were worried that Fox would be “destroyed” by its early but accurate call of Arizona for Biden.“I’ve got four more years here.
I’m stuck with Fox. Got to do whatever I can to keep our numbers up and our viewers happy,” Carlson tweeted. Baier agreed.Word came down on April 24 that Carlson and Fox News had parted ways, effective immediately. “We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,” read a statement from Fox News Media.According to the Los Angeles Times, the decision to fire Carlson was Fox Corp.
chairman Rupert Murdoch’s and was related to a discrimination lawsuit filed by former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg.A bombshell text sent by ex-Fox News star Tucker Carlson, published by The New York Times on May2, revealed the beginning of the chain of events that led to him being fired by the right-wing network last month.The text, written the day after the Jan.
6 insurrection at the Capitol, was filled with racist vitriol, with the host confessing to a desire to support those who “surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living s–t out of him.”Carlson wrote: “Suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him.
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