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Monday, June 12, 2023

Tucker Carlson Bites The Fox!

Defiant white nationalist will ignore Fox warnings.

While Tucker Carlson is still under contract with Fox until 2025, it has not stopped him from partnering with Elon Musk to launch his podcast on Twitter. Now his podcast has generated millions of views and is clearly outpacing Fox primetime opinion shows.

Fox ordering him to stop or face the consequences.

The network sent a “cease and desist” letter to Carlson claiming his new show on Twitter violates his Fox employment contract, which reportedly expires in early 2025.

Carlson is fighting back.

Perhaps one of the most controversial figures on American television, Tucker Carlson was No. 1 on Fox at the 8pm hour. His show regularly pulled in 3 to 4 million viewers.

His show was propaganda for white nationalists and MAGA. He wasn't the softball type of host. Sean "Softball" Hannity is the definition of softball hosts. Carlson tended to move past the normalcy of attacking Democrats to attacking Republicans, the elite and those who threatened the white culture.

Harmeet K. Dhillon, a lawyer for Carlson, called the decision to remove Carlson from the network “the most catastrophic programming decision in the history of the cable news industry,” adding that her client won’t be silenced.

“Fox News continues to ignore the interests of its viewers, not to mention its shareholder obligations,” Dhillon said in a statement to Axios.

Fox did not immediately return HuffPost’s request for comment.

Carlson, who is still being paid by the conservative network, was pushed out following the network’s $787.5 million defamation settlement with Dominion Voting Systems.

“FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,” the network said at the time, without citing a reason for his departure.

Carlson’s lawyers reportedly told Fox News prior to the show’s announcement that the noncompete clause in his contract is no longer valid, accusing the network’s leadership of fraud and of violating the contract.

Carlson’s executive producer, Justin Wells, on Sunday said Carlson’s next Twitter episode, scheduled for Tuesday, will cover Trump’s federal indictment over his handling of classified documents.

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