Tucker Carlson Requests Interview With Vladimir Putin

Tucker Carlson’s interview with President Trump last week garnered well over 260 million views but his next interview might be just as big.

RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan has revealed Tucker Carlson has requested an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Simonyan stated in a recent radio interview “ [Carlson] is strongly requesting an interview with Vladimir Putin.”

Simonyan continued “ It would be great, if someone listens and notifies the president about this.”

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— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) August 28, 2023

Here’s what RT reported:

Former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson has been seeking an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan said on Sunday.

“[Carlson] is strongly requesting an interview with Vladimir Putin,” Simonyan said on a talk show aired by the Rossiya-1 TV channel. “It would be great, if someone listens and notifies the president about this.”

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Carlson has not commented on the matter. Putin rarely gives one-on-one interviews to foreign media. His last lengthy conversation with a Western journalist was with CNBC anchor Hadley Gamble on the sidelines of the Russian Energy Week forum in Moscow in October 2021.

‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’, which aired on Fox from 2016 to 2023, was the highest-rated show on US cable news. Carlson was abruptly fired from the channel in April. According to the journalist, the termination was a condition of the settlement that Fox News reached with the Dominion Voting Systems, which sued the channel for defamation over its coverage of the US 2020 presidential election.

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— RT (@RT_com) August 28, 2023

Per Newsweek:

ucker Carlson has demanded an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to top Kremlin propagandist Margarita Simonyan.

Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the Russian state-controlled media organization Russia Today (RT), made the comment during a broadcast on state TV channel Russia-1. An excerpt was posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Sunday by Julia Davis, founder of the Russian Media Monitor watchdog group.

Conservative political commentator Carlson appeared to receive a job offer from RT in late April, shortly after Fox News announced it would part ways with the longtime host.

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