Tucker Carlson Tries to Put the Toothpaste Back in the Tube

Tucker Carlson doesn’t like the fact that how he really feels about Donald Trump was exposed and now he’s trying to backpedal so the trumpets don’t hate him.

In private text messages back on Jan. 4, 2021, Carlson said he was done with Trump and his unfounded claims of a rigged election. 

“We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait,” he texted an unidentified person. “I hate him passionately. ... I can’t handle much more of this,” he added.

The texts were made public and now Carlson is trying to change his story.

During an appearance on WABC radio, Carlson said he was “enraged” that his private texts were revealed.

“And I think this is in the text, and those were all grabbed completely illegitimately, in my opinion, in this court case, which I guess I’m not allowed to talk about, but I’m enraged that my private texts were pulled,” he said.

Carlson says the texts with one of his producers because “some idiot on the Trump campaign had sent us the name of these dead voters who had voted,” referring to his false reporting after the 2020 election that echoed the Trump campaign’s unfounded claims of dead people who were fraudulently counted as voting in Georgia.

After Carlson’s segment aired, a local Georgia news outlet debunked his claim, finding that two of the allegedly dead voters were alive and legally registered to vote, with CNN reporting days later that a third of the supposedly dead voters was also still living.

“And we went and I repeated them on air, and it turns out some of them were alive,” Carlson said, referring to the campaign's accusation. “So I was just — I felt humiliated.”

Maybe old Tuck should have done a bit of reporting before he put lies on the air. Since he was so pissed at Trump, I’m guessing the “idiot from the Trump campaign” was Donald Trump himself.

H/T NBC News