‘Was rooting for the mob’, did a textual content from Tucker Carlson led to his firing? | World News

Tucker Carlson, Fox News's movie star anchor who was just lately unceremoniously fired from the information channel he dominated for years could have been requested to go due to a textual content message that uncovered his perspective on violence.

In line with a report in New York Occasions, discovery of an previous textual content message from Tucker Carlson despatched to his information producers a day after Capitol violence could have alerted the Fox administration and led to his sudden firing.

On January 6, 2021, hours after Trump supporters unleashed violence on the Capitol, Carlson expressed his views stating his views on an incident which occurred just a few days again, ‘Trump guys surrounded an Antifa child and began pounding him'.

He additional went on to state, ‘it was three towards one.'

He then uncovered his views on violence towards the ‘Antifa child’ and by stating he hoped the child could be killed, ‘It’s not how white males struggle. But instantly I discovered myself rooting for the mob towards the person, hoping they’d hit him tougher, kill him.’

‘I actually needed them to harm the child. I may style it.’ He wrote.

Tucker Carlson's message has gone viral on social media and read-

New York Occasions additional stories, this message got here to Fox management's discover solely final month as they ready to go on trial towards Dominion Voting System which had filed a defamation case towards the media conglomerate. ‘The textual content alarmed the Fox board', the outlet reported and said that the management was involved that this textual content could be public at trial and create a sensational and damaging second that may additional elevate questions concerning the firm. It was a time Fox was getting into into out of court docket settlement.

Fox then initiated an investigation towards Carlson to know the explanation behind his statements. This solely added to different inner points piling up towards Carlson and made the administration imagine that he was changing into extra of a legal responsibility than an asset and needed to let go. It is usually being reported that this message could have been the explanation behind Fox deciding to settle the Dominion case for $787.5 million.