The announcement came one week after Fox News settled a monster defamation lawsuit with Dominion for $787.5 million over the network’s dissemination of election lies. The decision to part ways with Carlson was made by Fox Corporation chief executive Lachlan Murdoch and Fox News chief executive Suzanne Scott, a person familiar with the matter said. The network announced last week that Fox News and Carlson had severed ties. Tucker Carlson did not respond to CNN’s request for comment. The text message alarmed Fox’s board of directors and played a role in Carlson’s abrupt firing last month, the Times reported.įox News declined to comment to CNN on the report. The text was first reported by the New York Times. The message was redacted in court filings and was just one of several private conversations collected in the lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN. I could taste it.”Ĭarlson sent the text message to one of his producers in the hours after the violent January 6, 2021, insurrection on Capitol Hill. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him. Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. “A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living s**t out of him. “A couple of weeks ago, I was watching video of people fighting on the street in Washington,” Carlson texted a producer. In a newly revealed text message, ousted Fox News host Tucker Carlson made a racist comment and said he found himself briefly rooting for a mob of Trump supporters to kill a person.
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