Tucker Carlson seeks interview with Putin on X

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Agencies
27 Aug 2023 22:31

Tucker Carlson, a former Fox News host, has requested to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin.

US conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson speaks at the Turning Point Action USA conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, US, on July 15, 2023 (AFP)

Ex-Fox News host Tucker Carlson has requested to sit down with Russian President Vladimir Putin for an interview, Russia Today's Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan has revealed.

"He has been asking for an interview with Vladimir Putin. It would be great if someone were to hear us and tell the president about it," Simonyan told the Rossiya 1 broadcaster.

On April 25, Fox News announced that the network and its star primetime host, Carlson, have "agreed to part ways." Carlson has worked for Fox News for over a decade and never got the chance to sign off to his viewers as his last show aired on Friday, April 21.

According to Fox News, the network had reached the decision to part ways with Carlson a few days after the network reached what was dubbed by Axios a "historic 11th-hour settlement with Dominion Voting Systems for over $787 million."

Several embarrassing revelations have surfaced about Carlson from the files of the settled Dominion Voting Systems case against Fox — including his use of obscenities against women, and a text message in which he commented on a street attack saying, "It’s not how white men fight."

Furthermore, the conservative American pundit has faced fierce criticism from Democrats over his coverage of several political and cultural issues in the US.

Since his firing in April, Carlson launched his own program on X, which millions of viewers tune in to. the program dubbed "Carlson on X", has seen several big-name figures, experts, and politicians interviewed, including former US President Donald J. Trump and Tristan Tate.