While Trump and his allies have claimed that the federal case against him regarding classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago, Florida, residence-in which he denies any wrongdoing-were a politically-motivated attempt to stop him running in the election, others have noted that Jack Smith, the prosecutor in the case, was an independent special counsel and that Trump was indicted by a federal grand jury of his peers. "C'mon, that's absurd! It takes a lot more than jailing your political rivals to earn the title of 'wannabe dictator.'" "Just because he's trying to put the other candidate in prison for the rest of his life for a crime he himself committed doesn't mean he has a totalitarian impulse. "Of course, Joe Biden's not a wannabe dictator," he said. The former Fox News anchor- who parted ways with the network in April-then went on a sarcastic diatribe in which Carlson enumerated various examples as to why Biden was not a "wannabe dictator," implying the opposite. 4 Wannabe Dictator /MDcs5g0gxB- Tucker Carlson June 15, 2023 He offered to stay for the customary two weeks, but Fox told him to clear out his desk and leave immediately."Įp. He was one of the most capable people in the building. "He'd been at Fox for more than a decade. Less than 24 hours after that, he resigned. "First, they scolded the producer who put the banner on the screen. "Inside Fox, the women who run the network panicked," Carlson claimed. In a short statement to the outlet, a Fox News spokesperson said the chyron "was taken down immediately" and had been "addressed." The Daily Beast later said sources inside the network had identified Alexander McCaskill, who previously worked on Carlson's primetime show, as the author of the chyron. Janos Kummer/Getty ImagesĪt a White House press briefing the following day, when asked about the chyron, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said there were "probably about 787 million things I can say about this," before adding that it was "wrong" and declining to comment further. On his new Twitter show on Thursday, the conservative host embarked on a sarcastic speech about how Joe Biden was not a dictator. Tucker Carlson speaks during the Mathias Corvinus Collegium Feszt on August 7, 2021, in Esztergom, Hungary.
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