[GiRTh]

Fox News host Tucker Carlson said in a text message after the 2020 election that he "passionately hated" Donald Trump, according to new court filings.

Mr Carlson's message to a colleague in January 2021 emerged as part of a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News.

The electronic voting firm accuses the network of promoting baseless claims of vote-rigging in the election.

The latest filings in the case suggest Mr Carlson expressed his dislike of the outgoing US president two days before Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol to derail lawmakers from certifying Joe Biden's election win.

"We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights," he wrote in a text sent on 4 January 2021. "I truly can't wait."

"I hate him passionately," he added.

Mr Carlson, the top-rated host on the conservative network, also appeared to denigrate the Trump presidency in these private messages, despite lauding his achievements on air.

"That's the last four years. We're all pretending we've got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it's been is too tough to digest. But come on. There isn't really an upside to Trump."

Dominion argues in its lawsuit that top executives and some hosts at the conservative cable network knew that the conspiracy claims pushed by Donald Trump and his allies on Fox News programmes were false but still put them on air.

Previous filings have revealed that even Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire owner of Fox News, acknowledged some of the network's stars endorsed false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.

Fox hosts endorsed false election claims - Murdoch
In a statement provided to the BBC's US partner CBS News on Tuesday night, Fox News said: "Thanks to today's filings, Dominion has been caught red-handed again using more distortions and misinformation in their PR campaign to smear Fox News and trample on free speech and freedom of the press."

A jury trial is expected to begin in Delaware in April.

The text message revelations come amid a fresh round of criticism that Mr Carlson misrepresented exclusive security-camera footage given to Fox to downplay the severity of the riot two years ago at Congress.

Mr Carlson showed the previously unseen clips on Monday night and argued it "does not show an insurrection or a riot in progress", but rather "mostly peaceful chaos".

Criticism of the segment came from Democrats as well as top Republicans in Washington, the head of Capitol police, and the family of the police officer whose death was mentioned by Mr Carlson on the show.

Tucker Carlson said he hates Trump 'passionately', lawsuit reveals

Wow.

[Oliver_W]

I don't know enough about Carlson to know why that's significant?

[bitontheslide]

can't stand the guy, never watch any media he is on

[Soldier Boy]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

I don't know enough about Carlson to know why that's significant?

He's basically the face of Fox News / MAGA culture / champion of Trump supporting hicks across America... totally "team Trump" when on the air. This basically shows that he (and Fox News in general) is utterly full of **** and just appealing to what's popular with their viewers.

Not a surprise to most people.

In short; it's like Piers Morgan getting his WhatsApp leaked, and it being full of texts saying "Can't ****ing stand the Monarchy, thank god the Queen is dead now and that might be the end of them in a few years."

Or an email from Nigel Farage saying "Brexit probably wasn't a very good idea after all!"

[arista]

Yes FoxNews
now backing the Florida Leader
who still has not said he will run

[LeatherTrumpet]

News media making content to get more views to make more money?

This is a shock

[Soldier Boy]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

News media making content to get more views to make more money?

This is a shock

Not a shock to anyone with half a brain but you have to remember we're talking about Fox News viewers here LT... they've put a tonne of stock in what Tucker has said on all sorts of topics over the years.

Turns out he doesn't believe half of it himself.

That is pretty major.

[Liam-]

Keeping in mind Tucker and his producer or whoever said under oath in court that reasonable people would never take anything said on his show as fact, this doesn’t surprise me in the slightest, they’re just grifters of the highest order, stoking flames and hatred amongst groups of people for their own personal, financial gain, they’re gonna lose billions to dominion in that defamation lawsuit and I hope they lose even more after that, that ‘news’ network is a scourge on society

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

Not a shock to anyone with half a brain but you have to remember we're talking about Fox News viewers here LT... they've put a tonne of stock in what Tucker has said on all sorts of topics over the years.

Turns out he doesn't believe half of it himself.

That is pretty major.

Also, it displays that thing that is so hard to prove in court - Intent. They knew they were bull****ting their viewers.

I agree this is big

[Swan]

I don't watch Tucker, only ever see clips of him, i really can't abide that gormless grin he seems set on when listening to people talk.

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Swan

I don't watch Tucker, only ever see clips of him, i really can't abide that gormless grin he seems set on when listening to people talk.

I don't think I've even heard his voice, I've just seen his face with that "Intense and Serious" stare in the thumbnail for YouTube vids that get shared around

[Alf]

And yet he's not bias against Trump in his journalism.

That's a real journalist for you right there.

[Alf]

The real story here, what this story is trying to cover up and discredit the real story is that Tucker has just got the biggest scoop in American journalism in years and years, and they don't only want to discredit him and take him down because he exposes the deep state, but they're jealous of his scoop too.

He's obviously just shown the "January the fix"

[bitontheslide]

Alf and the conspiracy nonsense again. This is about fox news and the lies they peddled

[Alf]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

Also, it displays that thing that is so hard to prove in court - Intent. They knew they were bull****ting their viewers.

I agree this is big

Behave yourself, I've had bigger sh!ts

[Alf]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

Alf and the conspiracy nonsense again. This is about fox news and the lies they peddled

Listen, I called out Fox news as corrupt after they were the ones that called the election for Biden first. You sided with them against me then.

But here, Tucker exposes the January 6th lies and suddenly the next day they make a move on atticking him personally.

Senate leader Chuck Schumer publicly begged Rupert Murdoch to censor Tucker. That goes against the first ammendment right there.

They're panicking because the walls are closing in on them.

Smell those smelling salts.

[Alf]

This is why deep state politicians and controlled news are going after Tucker. He did this bit of journalism to them.

[Alf]

Here is Chuck Schumer begging Rupert Murdoch to take Tucker of air for exposing their January 6th lies.

He's calling for the news to be censored from the American people.

[Alf]

These are the same people that went on air every night for 3 years with the fake Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. All because Trump (the peacetime President) wouldn't step in line and bow down to them.

[Soldier Boy]

Those videos have been kicking around literally since a few weeks after it happened Alf. I don't know who told you they were new but - again - you're just repeating falsehoods.

Note that I'm not saying that "Shaman" wasn't scapegoated - I'm just saying these "escorted around by the police" Capitol videos have been public for over 2 years.

[Alf]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

Those videos have been kicking around literally since a few weeks after it happened Alf. I don't know who told you they were new but - again - you're just repeating falsehoods.

Note that I'm not saying that "Shaman" wasn't scapegoated - I'm just saying these "escorted around by the police" Capitol videos have been public for over 2 years.

Not these particularly videos haven't.

House leader Kevin McCarthy just gave them to Tucker.

It may even be possible that the footage we saw was made in Hollywood. I'm not saying that's what happened, but don't rule it out, it's possible.

[Alf]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

Those videos have been kicking around literally since a few weeks after it happened Alf. I don't know who told you they were new but - again - you're just repeating falsehoods.

Note that I'm not saying that "Shaman" wasn't scapegoated - I'm just saying these "escorted around by the police" Capitol videos have been public for over 2 years.

Don't know who you've been listening to to make you think I'm repeating falsehoods. Here is House speaker Kevin McCarthy answering the press questions about him just giving this footage to Tucker.

I'm always here to help you out with the facts.

[Oliver_W]

Yeah to be fair I thought I heard about new footage being recently released?

[Soldier Boy]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Yeah to be fair I thought I heard about new footage being recently released?

There may be some new footage but there were reports, photos and footage of police (supposedly) escorting people, including the "Shaman", around the Capitol as far back as 2021. In fact - I'd swear some of it was posted on here at the time.

[LeatherTrumpet]

I got sent a long clip of Mike Graham and Kevin O'Sullivan talking about Khan the London Mayor today (about his ridiculous tirade calling people far right (tom take note)

Both thought the mic was off but it was not

What was refreshing was that apart from liberal use of feck and c un t what they talked about was exactly what they say on Talk TV

Tucker take note..