Tucker Carlson Says The Biden Administration Is Spying On Him

During his Monday evening broadcast, Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed that the Biden Administration's NSA is spying on him, though he doesn't have any physical evidence to back up these claims. He says that the administration wants him off the air, and this could easily be a ploy to gain sympathy and elicit outrage from his audience. But could there be some truth to it? Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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On his Fox news program, Monday evening, Fox host Tucker Carlson made a shocking revelation to the country and I'm going to let him say it in his own words. Here he is.

Yesterday. We heard from a whistleblower within the U S government who reached out to warn us at the NSA. The national security agency is monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take the show off the air. Now that's a shocking claim and ordinarily we'd be skeptical of it is illegal for the NSA to spy on American citizens. It's a crime, it's not a third world country. Things like that should not happen in America, but unfortunately they do happen. And in this case, they did happen. The whistleblower, who is in a position to know repeated back to us information about a story that we are working on that could have only come directly from my texts and emails. There's no other possible source for that information period. The NSA captured that information without our knowledge and did it for political reasons. The Biden administration is spying on us. We have confirmed that this one

Rather shocking, right? According to Tucker Carlson and the alleged whistleblower, who they swear, totally exists. The Biden administration through the national security administration is spying on him. They're monitoring his program, checking out his phone, calls, his emails, his text messages, going through all of that because they want to take him off the air. Now, if you hadn't added that part, because they want to take me off the air, you know what may have had a little more believability to it, but I gotta tell you, man, that qualifier just because they want you off the air. Yeah. That really doesn't hold all that much water. Now here's the thing. Back in September of last year, Fox news owned lawyers went to court and said, no reasonable person takes what Tucker Tucker Carlson says at face value. It takes it as a fact, basically he is an entertainment host.

So he can't, uh, you know, be taken seriously. That's what they actually went to court and argued and they won. They won because they were able to show, listen, no reasonable person takes this guy seriously. So when he comes forward with allegations that, Hey, the NSA is spying on me. A whistleblower told me, so we filed a foil request and we're going to get back to you on that. You gotta take it with a grain of salt. Now the problem is we do know that the federal government under both Democrats and Republicans has spied on reporters on both the left and the right, like that is a thing that does happen here in the United States. It's been happening for decades. You know, we've got the FBI, that's done it as well. Spying on not just reporters, but on activists, keeping an eye on union leaders, basically keeping tags, uh, tabs, excuse me on anyone they think might cause a little trouble by basically exposing the truth here in the United States. It's a terrifying way to operate, but that is how the federal government operates. It's wrong. It's disgusting. And it does need to change. And if the Biden administration is spying on Tucker Carlson and his communications, then that is something that we do need to know about it. And I'm not going to condone that one bit just because I disliked Tucker Carlson. If they're doing it, they need to have a fully justifiable, legal reason to do so. And see that's the caveat too. Isn't it?

Tucker Carlson has been implicated by Matt gates himself into going to dinner with Matt gates and his little friend, the river. When, when gates went on Tucker's program, the night that story broke and said, Hey, you were there. So if there is spying going on on Tucker Carlson, um, there is a chance it could be justified, who knows? There's lots of different things. Tucker Carlson does have contact as Matt gates pointed out with very high profile people. Some of whom like gates himself are under federal investigation. So again, different scenarios could be playing out here first and foremost, he could be making it up because as the lawyers say, no reasonable person should believe him too.