EXCLUSIVE | We’ve got more previously unreported texts from Tucker Carlson. This time, he and his producer scheme ways to threaten Fox staffers into submission and extract a “big, fat contract.”
Long before Tucker Carlson was ousted from Fox, thanks in part to behavior suggesting he believed himself to be larger than the network, he and his top producer contemplated leveraging his clout to personally threaten and bully Fox News employees—and to bend the network as a whole towards their will.
Hours later, Carlson responded by assuring his executive producer he was willing to throw his weight around to browbeat lower-level staffers back in line and into respecting the Fox audience. Wells agreed, replying that he was “going to find out who did this first” because he wanted “to be armed with more detail.” Thanking Wells, Carlson declared that “Fox needs to hire someone to make sure our ‘news’ coverage is right down the middle and fair. Like today.”This back-and-forth between Carlson and Wells—who was also fired by Fox alongside Carlson last month—took place shortly after Carlson and Hannityfor fact-checking a Trump tweet that tagged other Fox stars.
Toward the end of that day’s exchange, Wells brought up Fox News host Greg Gutfeld seemingly criticizing then-Fox News correspondent Kristin Fisher for fact-checking Giuliani’s press conference. “He was on fire,” Wells texted, sharing
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