It has been noted that a couple of days after Election Day 2020, Fox News host Tucker Carlson texted his producer warning that Fox New’s decision to call the state of Arizona for Joe Biden on election night could spell doom for the network.
Tucker Carlson slams Donald Trump
According to a newly released court filing Thursday, The document, a 200-page motion for summary judgment in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News, featured multiple deposition excerpts and texts from top Fox News figures including Carlson, Sean Hannity, Rupert Murdoch, and others.
Fox was the first cable news network to project Biden’s victory in Arizona, prompting a slew of angry phone calls and texts from people in Trump’s camp.
“We worked really hard to build what we have,” Carlson texted his producer, Alex Pfeiffer, on November 5, 2020, according to the filing. “Those f***ers [who projected the results] are destroying our credibility. It enrages me.”
Carlson added that he had spoken with fellow primetime commentators Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity minutes earlier and that they were “highly upset.”
“At this point we’re getting hurt no matter what,” he wrote, according to the filing.
Pfeiffer replied that “many on ‘our side’ are being reckless demagogues right now.”
“Of course they are,” Carlson wrote. “We’re not going to follow them.”
Carlson went on to say that Trump was good at “destroying things. He’s the undisputed world champion of that. He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong.” At another point the same day, Carlson texted that “we’ve got to be incredibly careful right now. We could get hurt.” It’s unclear who the recipient of the message was.
