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Tucker Carlson confirmed speculation today that he’s been in Moscow to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“There are risks to conducting an interview like this, obviously. So we thought about it carefully over many months,” he said in a message posted on X/Twitter.
He went on to claim that “two years into a war that is reshaping the entire world, most Americans are not informed. They have no real idea what is happening in this region, here in Russia or 600 miles away in Ukraine.”
He then went on to call media outlets “corrupt” who “lie to readers and viewers” mostly “by omission.” He accused U.S. media of doing “fawning pep sessions” with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “specifically designed to amplify Zelensky’s demand that the U.S. enter more deeply into Eastern Europe and pay for it.”
Carlson also claimed that “not a single western journalist has bothered to interview the president of the other country involved in this conflict, Vladimir Putin.”
That accusation was met with immediate pushback from other journalists, including Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international anchor.
“Does Tucker really think we journalists haven’t been trying to interview President Putin every day since his full scale invasion of Ukraine? It’s absurd — we’ll continue to ask for an interview, just as we have for years now,” she wrote.
In claiming that U.S. media was one sided, Carlson also did not mention a set of censorship laws that Putin implemented in the aftermath of the invasion, which saw major outlets removing correspondents out of concerns for their safety. In March, The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich was detained on an allegation of espionage. The Journal denies that claim, as does the State Department.
Carlson said that the interview would not be behind a paywall and posted on TuckerCarlson.com, his media venture, as well as on X/Twitter. His subscription site otherwise costs $6-per-month.
Carlson was dropped by Fox News in April. He then went on to post interviews on X/Twitter before launching his subscription service.
