Tucker Carlson.Photo: AP/REX/Shutterstock
Thebombshell announcement that Tucker Carlson has left Fox Newscame just days after the right-wing personality ended what would be his final episode on Friday with the signoff that he would be “back Monday.”
In a statement on Monday morning, Fox News said the network and Carlson “have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.”
In one of the exchanges made public, Carlson texts a colleague: “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait.”
“I hate him passionately,” Carlson added.
In another exchange made public in March, Carlson wrote: “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 really isn’t an upside to Trump.”
Carlson’s text messages are among a large tranche of private conversations and under-oath testimony from executives and hosts at Fox News, which Dominion argued in its complaint “sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes, severely injuring Dominion in the process.”
Fox argued, in a counterclaim, that Dominion “mischaracterized the record” and “cherry-picked quotes stripped of key context.”
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In a statement sent to PEOPLE amid the legal battle, a spokesperson for Fox accused Dominion of using “distortions and misinformation” in what it called a “PR campaign to smear FOX News and trample on free speech and freedom of the press.”
Dominion settled with Fox last week.
source: people.com
