Tucker Carlson Warned Staff Trump Would Destroy Fox If They Didn't Back His Lies

Fox News host Tucker Carlson is apparently living in constant fear of Donald Trump, according to court documents that were released this week. Following the 2020 election and Fox's decision to call Arizona for President Biden, Carlson texted one of his producers and said that Trump was the "king" and that he could destroy Fox News if they didn't continue to peddle his election lies. Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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Apparently Tucker Carlson lives in constant fear that Donald Trump is somehow going to destroy Fox News. And we know that because of a 200 page court filing by Dominion Voting Systems this past week where they revealed text messages, emails, testimony, de depositions from Fox News hosts and producers, including text messages from Tucker Carlson. And shortly after the 2020 election, in fact, two days after the election, after Fox News called the State of Arizona for President Biden, and yes, they were the first cable news outlet to do that, Tucker Carlson got off. He knew this was gonna make Donald Trump mad. So he texts his producer and he says, quote, we worked really hard to build what we have. Those fers who projected the results are destroying our credibility. It enrages me at this point. We're getting hurt no matter what the producer responded, uh, the producer is a man by the name of Alex Pfeiffer.

He said, many on our side are being reckless demagogues right now. Carlson responded, of course they are. We're not going to follow them. And he then said, um, we've got to be incredibly careful right now we could get hurt. And then he said that Donald Trump has the, uh, he's good at destroying things. He's the undisputed world champion of that. He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong. He could destroy us. Tucker Carlson said, how, like, what was he gonna do? I mean, really Tucker, think about it for a second. I guess at the time, you know, Donald Trump had not yet been kicked off of Twitter. So he, he had a big Twitter following. He could have tweeted bad things about Fox News, but he was already doing that and it didn't hurt your audience at all. So what were you afraid of? Because he had attacked Fox News.

He had attacked your polling, he had attacked all kinds of things on Fox News for many, many years and it never hurt the network. So what the hell were you so terrified of? Were you afraid of losing your body, losing your friend? Cuz I think that's what it is. You, you seem like the kind of guy that probably doesn't have many friends. So I understand why it would be so important to you to keep that one. Then there's other texts that were revealed, one from Sean Hannity to both Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingram that said, quote in one week and one debate. They destroyed a brand that took 25 years to build and the damage is incalculable about the Arizona Yeah. Fox calling Arizona and Carlson responded and said, it's vandalism. And then the trio got off because a Fox news

Reporter reporter on the air debunked one of Donald Trump's tweets where he made, you know, salacious claims about dominion voting systems. And then Carlson texted Hannity and Ingram about that reporter and said, quote, please get her fired. Seriously. What the f It needs to stop immediately like tonight. It's measurably hurting the company. The stock price is down, not a joke. So they wanted somebody fired for not following along with the dominion lies or, yeah, the lies about dominion. Just fact checking a tweet from the then sitting president who had just lost an election. All of this, of course, is very damaging to Fox News. I will have more to say about this, uh, coming up in a video that I'm gonna do for Monday. But Tucker Carlson is terrified. He's a scared little baby boy. He's worried that actually telling the truth is going to somebody off. If you're in a situation, as a reporter, as a personality, as somebody with a frigging TV show, if you are afraid to tell the truth because it may somebody off, then I can tell you right now you're in the wrong business.