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A leaked text shows Tucker Carlson describing a video of a “group of Trump boys” jumping an “Antifa kid”.
In the text, obtained by The New York Times, he said, “It’s not how white men fight.”
Carlson was abruptly expelled from Fox News last week.
A leaked text message from the settled Dominion defamation lawsuit shows Tucker Carlson describing a video of the violent attack of an “Antifa kid” being jumped by a “group of Trump boys,” the former Fox News operative superstar complains that “it’s not how white men fight.”
The text, obtained by The New York Times from interviews with people with knowledge of the lawsuit, remnants redacted from public court documents in Dominion’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News that was settled for a trial last month recording of $787.5 million.
According to the Times, Carlson sent the text to one of his producers the day after the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.
Although there were many messages between the former primetime show host and his colleagues made public during the Dominion trialseveral texts between Carlson and other Fox executives sent on the day of the riot remain redacted from public records.
The settlement — the largest ever in a libel case — allowed Carlson and other Fox personnel to avoid questioning under oath about those lyrics on the stand.
However, Fox executives were made aware of the reports before the trial began last month and were concerned that it would come to light during the proceedings, according to the Times.
The full report was published by the Times on Tuesday. In it, Carlson explained that the video he had seen showed at least three men to one. The race of the beaten person is unclear.
Jumping on a man like that is of course dishonorable. It’s not how white men fight. But suddenly I found myself supporting the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to would hurt the boy. I could taste it,” the text reads according to the Times.
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“Then somewhere deep in my brain an alarm went off: This is not good for me. I’m becoming something I don’t want to be. The Antifa creep is human. As much as I despise what he says and as much as I know for sure that I personally would hate him if I knew him, I shouldn’t gloat over his suffering if he were killed,” Carlson continued, according to the Times. “If I don’t care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than him?”
Carlson, whom critics have repeatedly accused promoting white nationalist talking points – like the racist “replacement theory” – And trivializing white nationalist violence on his show, was abruptly expelled from the network last week.
People familiar with Carlson’s firing spoke out The Los Angeles Times that Rupert Murdoch himself made the call for Carlson to be fired, in part because of the host’s conspiracy theories about the 2021 Capitol riots, which he regularly reinforced on his show.
An attorney representing Carlson did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment. Fox News did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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