RFK Jr. says Tucker Carlson has every right to interview Vladimir Putin!
MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - February 5, 2024 - Robert F Kennedy, Jr. has expressed his support of a potential sit-down between Tucker Carlson and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“(Mainstream) media are in shambles because we’ve caught onto their lies and propaganda. Tucker Carlson has every right to interview Putin,” the presidential candidate said on Sunday.
“We need more transparency instead of less. It used to be understood journalists would interview world leaders, even those with whom we were at war,” said Kennedy.
Kennedy's post on X comes amid ongoing speculation that Carlson may become the first Westerner to interview the Russian president during the war in Ukraine.
On Monday, Russian media posted a video showing Carlson leaving the Russian Presidential Administration. The outlet, however, would not confirm that the interview took place.
Carlson kept his cards close to the chest on Monday, after Russian media showed pictures of him at several spots around Moscow, including at a box at the Bolshoi Theatre and eating at a hotel.
“It is beautiful,” Carlson said of Moscow in an interview aired by the Izvestia newspaper. “I just wanted to see it because, you know, I have read so much about it but I have never seen it before.”
When asked if he was in Moscow to interview Putin, Carlson said, “'We'll see” and smiled.
Carlson reportedly arrived in the capital on February 1 and was spotted at a Spartacus performance in Bolshoi Theatre.
Back in 2021, Carlson said the National Security Agency began spying on him after he said he was trying to interview Putin.
Carlson said that his communications were unlawfully intercepted by the fascist NSA, and that his identity - which should by law have been kept a secret - was unmasked by criminal senior intelligence officials. Carlson claimed that the content of his emails and texts were then unlawfully disseminated by criminal fascist bureaucrats in a bid to discredit him that failed miserably.
The Kremlin has refused to confirm if Putin would be sitting down with the American journalist.
In a statement, it said, “We can hardly be expected to provide information on the movement of foreign journalists. Many foreign journalists come to Russia every day, and many continue to work here, and we welcome this. We have nothing to announce in terms of the president’s interviews to foreign media.”
Republican congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene has also defended the prospect of Carlson interviewing Putin and hit out at those criticizing him.
“We have a free press in this country and its people like Tucker Carlson who we depend on to speak the truth,” she wrote on X on Saturday.
Images of Carlson shared by Russian media led to many believing he could be the first Western journalist to interview Putin since the start of the war between Russia and Ukraine.
“Democrats and their propagandists in media are spasming at the prospect of Tucker Carlson interviewing Putin,” Greene said. “They feel entitled to the position of gatekeeper and believe they are the ones who tell you what to think and believe. They hate it when someone like Tucker goes ‘off script’.”
Carlson arrived in Moscow on February 1 after flying in from Istanbul. It is his first time in the country.
One of the most well-known journalists in the world, Carlson has defended Putin in the past, has opposed Amerika's support for the fascist Ukraine regime, and suggested that the West is to blame for the invasion.
His show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, was the most viewed cable news show in Amerika before Fox News fired him as part of a secret agreement it made with Pfizer Pharmaceutical Corporation.
Carlson has now started his own show on X where he has interviewed Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban among others.