{"id":561377,"date":"2023-03-09T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/carlson-shows-two-sides-to-his-views-on-trump-supporters\/"},"modified":"2023-03-09T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T01:00:00","slug":"carlson-shows-two-sides-to-his-views-on-trump-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/carlson-shows-two-sides-to-his-views-on-trump-supporters\/","title":{"rendered":"#Carlson shows two sides to his views on Trump, supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3db80c4e202\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3db80c4e202\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/carlson-shows-two-sides-to-his-views-on-trump-supporters\/#Carlson_shows_two_sides_to_his_views_on_Trump_supporters\" >Carlson shows two sides to his views on Trump, supporters<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Carlson_shows_two_sides_to_his_views_on_Trump_supporters\"><\/span>Carlson shows two sides to his views on Trump, supporters<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/AP_Tucker_Trump_SethWenig.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> host Tucker Carlson\u2019s conflicting feelings about former President Trump and his supporters have been on full display this week amid headlines over his controversial Jan. 6 coverage and private emails unearthed as part of a lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson has dedicated two nights of his widely watched prime-time opinion program to defending the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan.6, downplaying the incident as \u201cmostly peaceful chaos,\u201d \u2014 comments that sparked a widespread political backlash.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>But in private, communications brought to light through the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit show Carlson offering scorn of the GOP\u2019s default standard-bearer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can\u2019t wait,\u201d Carlson wrote in one text to an unidentified Fox employee on Jan. 4, 2021, just two days before the former president\u2019s supporters stormed the Capitol, according to one recent court filing.<\/p>\n<p>In another, he said, \u201cI hate him passionately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What emerges is a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> personality who wants to seek solidarity with the common man who supports the former president, but who has severe misgivings about the former commander in chief.<\/p>\n<p>Dominion is suing Fox for defamation and is seeking $1.6 billion in damages. The company\u2019s suit alleges that Fox hosts and executives knowingly aired conspiracy theories they did not believe that Dominion had been part of an electoral fraud effort in the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Fox has defended itself on First Amendment grounds, arguing it had a journalistic duty to cover Trump\u2019s newsworthy claims and accused the company of \u201ccherry picking\u201d quotes from top hosts like Carlson to drive high-profile press coverage and strengthen its case.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThanks to today\u2019s filings, Dominion has been caught red handed using more distortions and misinformation in their PR campaign to smear Fox News and trample on free speech and freedom of the press,\u201d the network said in its most recent statement on Dominion\u2019s filings. \u201cWe already know they will say and do anything to try to win this case, but to twist and even misattribute quotes to the highest levels of our company is truly beyond the pale.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the suit plays out, Fox is now dealing with a separate controversy surrounding Carlson\u2019s take on the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) gave the Fox News host thousands of hours of tape as an exclusive, which Carlson used on Monday and Tuesday to paint a more peaceful picture of the riot at the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a close connection between the conspiracy theories about voter fraud costing Trump the presidential election and the riot at the Capitol.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>On the day of Jan. 6, 2021, Trump gave a speech about voter fraud near the White House. His<\/p>\n<p>Supporters then invaded the Capitol to prevent Congress from certifying the results of the presidential election. The count was restarted and concluded hours after the Capitol was cleared.<\/p>\n<p>Messages released in the Dominion lawsuit suggest Carlson did not believe the theories of voter fraud.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cSidney Powell\u00a0is lying by the way. I caught her. It\u2019s insane,\u201d\u00a0Carlson\u00a0wrote to fellow prime-time host\u00a0Laura Ingraham\u00a0on Nov. 18, according to another filing. Powell at the time was a pro-Trump lawyer pushing unfounded theories about Dominion.<\/p>\n<p>In other messages, Carlson told Powell: \u201cYou keep telling our viewers that millions of votes were changed by the software. I hope you will prove that very soon. You\u2019ve convinced them that Trump will win. If you don\u2019t have conclusive evidence of fraud at that scale, it\u2019s a cruel and reckless thing to keep saying.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet this week, on his nightly prime-time program, Carlson took a much different tone about the election and Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Many of the people who entered the Capitol that day, Carlson said on his Monday evening show, \u201cbelieved the election they had just voted in had been unfairly conducted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were right. In retrospect, it is clear the 2020 election was a grave betrayal of American democracy, given the facts that have since emerged about that election,\u201d the host said. \u201cNo honest person can deny it. Yet the beneficiaries of that election continue to lie about what is now obvious.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Carlson offered no new evidence to support the allegation of fraud.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Carlson, since launching his show on Fox in 2016, has not shied away from knocking Republicans and Trump, though his criticism in public has been less sharp than the private texts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany others are saying that Donald Trump is the reason why Republicans didn\u2019t do as well as they thought they would. That\u2019s a more complicated question,\u201d Carlson said during one of his broadcasts shortly after last fall\u2019s midterm elections. \u201cThe truth is we can\u2019t see the entire picture this early \u2026 The truth is Trump has always been a mixed blessing politically. The downsides are marbled in with the upsides, but in this case he\u2019s certainly not the single cause of anything.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump promoted Carlson\u2019s show early this week, which experienced a 20 percent bump in audience on Monday, thanking him for airing additional footage from Jan. 6 and calling the assertions the host was making \u201cirrefutable.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Trump opponents in the GOP were critical of Carlson.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that \u201cit was a mistake, in my view, [for] Fox News to depict this in a way completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at the Capitol\u201d described.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Carlson <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared to revel in the bipartisan criticism on his show Tuesday, saying members of both parties were engaged in \u201chysteria\u201d over the release of new footage from Jan. 6 while doubling down on his framing of the attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re all on the same side. So it\u2019s actually not about left and right. It\u2019s not about Republicans and Democrats. Here, you have people with shared interests \u2026.The people who, underneath it all, have everything in common are all aligned against everyone else,\u201d Carlson said. \u201cThey kind of outed themselves and showed their membership cards in whatever club this is.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo keep a list,\u201d he told his viewers. \u201cIf you want to know who\u2019s actually aligned despite the illusion of partisanship, we found out today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Zach Schonfeld contributed.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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