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Tucker Carlson is gone from Fox, but his many lies still poison the psyches of the millions who watched him every night.
“Our viewers are good people and they believe it,” he said about Donald Trump’s claims of a stolen election n in one of the chain texts with other Fox fixtures that came to light during the recent Dominion defamation lawsuit, which he has since settled for $787.5 million
The texts made clear that Carlson himself did not believe the former president. Carlson merely preached that lie, along with a host of others, as part of an actual conspiracy run by Rupert Murdoch to build a gullible Fox audience —and hoard the accompanying wealth and influence. Carlson voiced his priorities in another text after Fox reporter Jacqui Heinrich suggested on air that there was nothing to indicate that Dominion had been party to voter fraud.