Update: Tucker Carlson released a statement on X Tuesday confirming he interviewed Russian Vladimir Putin and that interview’s release is imminent:
Why I’m interviewing Vladimir Putin. pic.twitter.com/hqvXUZqvHX
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 6, 2024
Here’s why we’re doing it. First because it’s our job. We’re in journalism. Our duty is to inform people. Two years into a war that’s reshaping the entire world, most Americans are not informed. They have no real idea what’s happening in this region, here in Russia, or 600 miles away in Ukraine. But they should know – they’re paying for much of it in ways they might not fully yet perceive. The war in Ukraine is a human disaster. It’s left hundreds of thousands of people dead, an entire generation of young Ukrainians, and it’s depopulated the largest country in Europe.
But the long-term effects are even more profound. This war has utterly reshaped the global military and trade alliances. And the sanctions that followed have as well and in total they have upended the world economy. The post-World War 2 economic order, the system that guaranteed prosperity in the West for more than 80 years, is coming apart very fast, and along with it the dominance of the US dollar. These are not small changes. They are history-altering developments able to define the lives of our grandchildren. Most of the world understands this perfectly well, they can see it. Ask anyone in Asia or the Middle East what the future looks like. And yet the population of the English-speaking countries seem mostly unaware. They think that nothing has really changed, and they think that because no one has told them the truth. Their media outlets are corrupt they lie to the readers and viewers, and they do that mostly by omission.
“That is not journalism,” Tucker states. “It is government propaganda, propaganda of the ugliest kind, the kind that kills people. At the same time our politicians and media outlets have been doing this, promoting a foreign leader like he’s a new consumer brand, not a single Western journalist has bothered to interview the president of the other country involved in this conflict, Vladimir Putin.”
Tucker added that the Biden Administration appears to have spied on his crew’s text messages and phone calls ahead of the interview, as they have done previously.
“Americans have a right to know all they can about a war they’re implicated in and we have the right to tell them about it because we are Americans, too. Freedom of speech is our birthright. We were born with the right to say what we believe. That right cannot be taken away no matter who is in the White House. But they’re trying anyway,” Tucker said.
“Almost three years ago the Biden Administration illegally spied on our text messages and then leaked the contents to their servants in the news media. They did this in order to stop a Putin interview that we were planning. Last month, we’re pretty certain they did exactly the same thing once again, but this time we came to Moscow anyway.”
Alex Jones issued an emergency warning to Tucker Carlson after news broke he interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin:
Additionally, American businessman Patrick Byrne also predicts the Carlson/Putin interview will contain revelations so powerful it will “change history.”
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