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<p>With <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-fox-news-plans-to-have-trump-appear-at-its-gop-debate?ref=wrap">axes to grind against Fox News</a>, Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson held <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-laid-down-to-donald-trump-during-humiliating-fox-interview">another</a> lengthy and largely amicable discussion that was posted online five minutes before the right-wing network’s <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-candidates-rip-each-other-at-debatejust-not-the-guy-ripping-them?ref=home">first GOP primary debate</a> Wednesday—a discussion that began with Carlson asking the quadruply indicted former president why he skipped the event.</p>
<p>"Do I sit there for an hour or two hours—whatever it's going to be—and get harassed by people that shouldn't even be running for president?" Trump said in the <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1694513603251241143">pre-taped interview</a>, which Carlson oddly <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1694469568549237033">hyped up</a> as “debate night in Bedminster.”</p>
<p>Despite hearing pitches from Fox News executives in person, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-and-friends-reduced-to-begging-trump-to-come-to-fox-gop-debate">as well as on-air pleas</a> from MAGA-friendly hosts, Trump spurned the network, which fired Carlson this spring—a move that <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-mourns-tucker-carlsons-fox-news-firing-as-a-big-blow-to-america">Trump mourned</a> as a “big blow” to the country.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-says-he-skipped-debate-to-avoid-harassment-from-other-candidates">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->
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With axes to grind against Fox News, Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson held another lengthy and largely amicable discussion that was posted online five minutes before the right-wing network’s first GOP primary debate Wednesday—a discussion that began with Carlson asking the quadruply indicted former president why he skipped the event.
“Do I sit there for an hour or two hours—whatever it’s going to be—and get harassed by people that shouldn’t even be running for president?” Trump said in the pre-taped interview, which Carlson oddly hyped up as “debate night in Bedminster.”
Despite hearing pitches from Fox News executives in person, as well as on-air pleas from MAGA-friendly hosts, Trump spurned the network, which fired Carlson this spring—a move that Trump mourned as a “big blow” to the country.
