Tucker Carlson Wanted to ‘Start Threatening’ Fox News Staffers After 2020 Election
Long before Tucker Carlson was ousted from Fox, thanks in part to behavior suggesting he believed himself to be larger than the network, he and his top producer contemplated leveraging his clout to personally threaten and bully Fox News employees—and to bend the network as a whole towards their will.
Such revelations are contained within previously unreported text messages obtained and reviewed by The Daily Beast. The exchanges were part of documents in Dominion Voting Systems’ now-settled defamation case against Fox News. In the past week, The Daily Beast has reported on other messages included in these materials, including text exchanges between Carlson and Fox colleagues Bret Baier and Jesse Watters.
Fox News declined to comment, and Carlson did not respond to a request for comment. In a text message, Wells suggested without any evidence that Fox News executives leaked the texts to The Daily Beast. He added that he didn’t “quite understand what the story or peg is here” and did not provide any further comment.
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