In the released video, he claims that investigators read his text messages and that the alleged investigation relates to his “communications with people in Iran before the war.”
The journalist said that he considers this case “ridiculous” and doubts that it will even come to court.
Carlson also said that US intelligence agencies are spying on Americans. “This is outrageous: there is no excuse for your government, which you support with your taxes, to violate your privacy,” he said.
Context
Carlson is a famous American journalist, popular among conservative voters, and a supporter of US President Donald Trump. From 2009 to 2023, he worked for the conservative Fox News channel.. The journalist has repeatedly made anti-Ukrainian statements, opposed the provision of American aid to Ukraine, and also insulted the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, calling him a “US puppet” and a “dictator in a tracksuit.”
It was to Carlson that the illegitimate president of the aggressor country, Russia, Vladimir Putin, gave his first interview as a Western journalist since the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, reminded NBC News. In it, Putin repeated Russian propaganda narratives that Ukraine is an “artificial state” allegedly created by the Soviet regime, and that Russia’s war against Ukraine is “to a certain extent an element of civil war.”
In the analysis of the publication “GORDON” says how Putin lied about the father of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and even twisted his own lies, and who is Tucker Carlson.
Zelensky, in an interview with British presenter Piers Morgan published on February 3, said that Carlson needs to stop “licking Putin's ass.”
Carlson criticized the military campaign against Iran, after which Trump said ABC News journalist Jonathan Karlthat Carlson is no longer part of MAGA.
