Conservative pundit Tucker Carlson has claimed that the Murdoch household requested him to run towards Donald Trump within the 2024 presidential election.
Carlson mentioned the outstanding media household, which owns the information shops Fox Information and The Wall Avenue Journal, urged him to enter the presidential race after they’d already fired him from his internet hosting function at Fox Information, the place he labored from 2009 to 2023.
“The Murdochs actually hate Trump,” Carlson advised visitor and former Fox Information host Clayton Morris throughout Monday’s episode of his podcast, the “Tucker Carlson Present.”
“I received fired in April of 2023. In Could of 2023, they requested me to run for president towards Trump and mentioned they might again me.”
Carlson then appeared to scoff over the household’s proposal, saying, “I’d by no means get elected. Plus, I like Trump.”
The political commentator admitted that whereas he’s “annoyed now” with the president, he nonetheless holds him in excessive regard.
Earlier this month, he accused Trump of abandoning his “America First” philosophy by being “complicit” in Israel’s recent military strikes towards Iran, and Carlson has privately complained about Trump up to now.
Trump clapped again at Carlson’s criticism in an interview with “The Atlantic,” telling the outlet that he’s the “one which decides” what the precept “America First” means as a result of he was “the one which developed” it. (He was not.)
Elsewhere within the episode, Carlson claimed that Lachlan Murdoch, the eldest son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, particularly inspired him to run towards Trump.
“Lachlan Murdoch mentioned, ‘You need to run… we’ll again you, the entire thing,’” Carlson advised Morris, alleging that the son of the media tycoon supplied to assist him by means of the key media properties owned by the Murdoch household.
After Morris requested Carlson to verify that the assertion “got here proper from Lachlan,” Carlson, who mentioned he was “nonetheless underneath contract” with Fox Information on the time, clarified that he was requested after his present was canceled.
“I used to be nonetheless underneath contract, however they canceled my present,” he added.
Representatives for the Murdoch household didn’t instantly reply to HuffPost’s request for touch upon Carlson’s declare.
Watch a clip from the “Tucker Carlson Present” under.
