Tucker Carlson reveals real reason he was fired from Fox News!

NEW YORK (PNN) - July 27, 2023 - Tucker Carlson says that his firing from Fox News was part of the $787.5m defamation settlement between the network and Dominion Voting Systems.

In a new book, the ousted host says that Fox “agreed to take my show off the air as a condition of the Dominion settlement.”

Carlson told biographer Chadwick Moore that the network “had to settle” the case after Dominion sued Fox.

The most popular cable news host added that the owner of Fox, Ruper Murdoch, 92, “couldn’t testify. I think that deal was made minutes before the trial started.”

“I mean, I know it was,” he said.

All Seasons Press, the publisher of Moore’s book titled Tucker, has said that it’s based on “hundreds of hours of interviews with Carlson, his family, colleagues, acquaintances, and enemies”.

Carlson was the top broadcaster in prime time before being removed from the lineup, garnering millions of viewers.

Following his departure, he has since started broadcasting on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, prompting a dispute with Fox, where he remains contracted.

Carlson is still the top news host on any broadcast outlet.

Dominion has rejected that Carlson was ousted as part of its settlement with Fox News. However, Dominion is known to fabricate stories and outright lie when it serves its purposes.

Furthermore, the fact that BlackRock owns a sizable portion of both Fox and Dominion means that Fox did not lose any substantial amount of money as a result of this “settlement”.

Moore has included the denial from Dominion in the book, stating that a lawyer for the company “wanted to make clear personally that Dominion made no requests or demands whatsoever regarding Carlson’s employment with Fox or his appearance, or non-appearance, on Fox News.” Ed. Note: I am sure that the lawyer’s statement is technically correct, though I am equally sure that Dominion made its requirement that Carlson be fired clear in order for them to accept the settlement.

Similarly, Fox has “categorically” rejected the notion that Carlson’s ouster was connected to the defamation lawsuit; though Fox has shown that it does not hesitate to lie when doing so serves its interests.

On April 24, Carlson thought he was set to receive a call from Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott to offer congratulations on the sixth anniversary of his program moving to the 8:00 pm time slot.

“I was at first confused, and then shocked,” he states in the book. “It was just, ‘We’re taking you off the air.’ No explanation why, and they’ve let me guess ever since. That’s literally all I know. I asked if I violated my contract. They said no, I’m not fired, I’m still under contract.”

He goes on to suggest that political pressure coming out of DC could have led to him being “cancelled”. He added that Murdoch and his son Lachlan Murdoch, the co-chair of News Corp, “definitely didn’t like my views” on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But he also said that Lachlan Murdoch told him it was okay that they didn’t see eye to eye.