Political commentator and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson was reportedly spotted in Russia.
As a result, there’s widespread speculation Carlson will conduct an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Tucker Carlson Spotted In Moscow As Necons Melt Down Over Potential Putin Interview https://t.co/PyQpYgHJ55
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) February 4, 2024
Carlson previously said he planned on interviewing Putin until he found out the U.S. government was spying on him.
Collin Rugg writes:
Tucker Carlson reportedly spotted in Moscow, Russia as speculation swirls that he will be interviewing Vladimir Putin.
Carlson said he previously planned on interviewing Putin until he found out the U.S. government was spying on him.
“The NSA broke into my signal account, which I didn’t know they could do,” he previously said.
ADVERTISEMENT‘”I got a call from somebody in Washington. This person said: ‘Are you gonna come to Washington anytime soon?’ Yeah. Actually, I’m gonna be up in a week, meet me Sunday morning.”
“So I go, and this person’s like: ‘Are you planning a trip to go see Putin?’ And I was like, ‘how would you know that?’ I haven’t told anybody. I mean anybody. Not my brother. Not my wife, nobody.”
“How would you know that? ‘Because NSA pulled your text with this other person you were texting.’”
Good for him.
BREAKING: Tucker Carlson reportedly spotted in Moscow, Russia as speculation swirls that he will be interviewing Vladimir Putin.
Carlson said he previously planned on interviewing Putin until he found out the U.S. government was spying on him.
“The NSA broke into my signal… pic.twitter.com/MahlBIDEFa
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 3, 2024
RT reports:
American journalist Tucker Carlson has spent several days in Russia, where he attended a ballet performance at the Bolshoi Theatre, Telegram channel Mash reported on Saturday, sharing several photos of the conservative commentator.
Carlson allegedly touched down at Vnukovo airport on a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul on Thursday after several hours’ delay, according to the channel. He was later spotted taking in the ballet Spartacus at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
The conservative commentator has yet to confirm the trip and it remains unclear what business he had in Russia. However, rumors of his intention to interview President Vladimir Putin have been circulating since last year.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov did not rule out the possibility of Carlson interviewing Putin when asked about it in September, though he explained that the Russian leader would wait to sit down with any American journalist until the US population was no longer so “seriously stupefied by Russia-hating propaganda.”
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Can you think of any reason why any journalist worth his/her salt would not jump at the chance to interview Vladimir Putin? https://t.co/bm4B2FIwF9
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Lionel
“Democrats and their propagandists in the media are spasming at the prospect of Tucker Carlson interviewing Putin. They feel entitled to the position of gatekeeper and believe they are the ones who tell you what to think and believe. They HATE when someone like Tucker goes ‘off script’. We have a free press in this country and its people like Tucker Carlson who we depend on to speak the truth!” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said.
Democrats and their propagandists in the media are spasming at the prospect of Tucker Carlson interviewing Putin.
They feel entitled to the position of gatekeeper and believe they are the ones who tell you what to think and believe.
They HATE when someone like Tucker goes… pic.twitter.com/yKwm4Mz1iC
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
Per Newsweek:
Referencing Greene’s comments on Sunday, Russia’s state-backed news agency, Tass, reported that Kremlin press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, had said in 2023 that the world would have to “wait and see” whether Putin would speak with Carlson.
Carlson said in late September 2023 that he had attempted to interview the Russian leader, but that the U.S. government had blocked the move. “I tried to interview Vladimir Putin, and the U.S. government stopped me,” Carlson told Swiss magazine, Die Weltwoche.
Newsweek has reached out to Carlson for comment via email.
Carlson abruptly left Fox News in April 2023, and has since set up his own streaming service and hosted shows on social media.
ADVERTISEMENTCarlson has become a popular figure among Russian state media commentators, and has been accused of echoing Russian state propaganda.
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