As the biography of former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is scheduled to debut, an excerpt from the book shares the host’s thought process on why he was let go in April.
The Guardian received an advanced copy of the book that is scheduled to be released in the United States on Tuesday, August 1st, and in the excerpt, Carlson says he “knows” a pact was made by the cable outlet and Dominion Voting Systems as talks of a $787.5 million settlement progressed.
“They agreed to take me off the air, my show off the air, as a condition of the Dominion settlement,” Carlson said, according to his biographer Chadwick Moore. “They had to settle this; Rupert [Murdoch, the 92-year-old Fox News owner] couldn’t testify. I think that deal was made minutes before the trial started.
“I mean, I know it was.”
The theory floated by Carlson was first unveiled by Moore in May.
“It has now been reported that his firing was a condition demanded by Dominion as part of the settlement with Fox. Although Dominion has denied this, my sources have intimate knowledge of the situation and have assured me — even before this news leaked — that that is in fact the truth,” Moore claimed in a video on Twitter.
“If that is true, that would mean a small group of people who have a controlling interest in Dominion have managed to silence what is arguably the most important and conservative voice in the country, possibly until after the next presidential election.”
Fox News has continually denied that Carlson’s departure is related to the settlement with the election machine company.
