Tucker Carlson

"I love Trump," the Fox News host said, as he discussed private text exchanges that said the exact opposite.

“And I said this to Trump when he called me, you know, all wounded about those texts,” he continued. ... And those were all grabbed completely illegitimately in my opinion in this court case, which I guess I’m not allowed to talk about.” “I spent four years defending his policies, and I am going to defend them again tonight,” Carlson told Snerdley. I think Trump is funny and insightful.” “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights,” Carlson texted. “I truly can’t wait.”

Recently unearthed text messages reveal that the Fox News star hates Trump “passionately.” Carlson is now saying he actually loves the ex-president.

“He doesn’t hate me, or at least, not anymore!” Trump posted on his Truth Social site this month while praising [Carlson’s attempts](https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-spins-josh-hawley-jan-6-video-as-a-lie-because-others-fled-too) to whitewash the Jan. “And I was so mad by the incompetence of that campaign, which was completely incompetent. However, the Fox host’s report on “dead voters” “And we went and I repeated them on air, and it turns out some of them were alive. That was a moment in time where I was absolutely infuriated.” The voting software firm has [accused](https://www.thedailybeast.com/dominion-uses-fox-news-ceo-suzanne-scotts-words-against-network-in-defamation-case) Fox News of knowingly airing baseless election fraud claims to boost sagging ratings after disgruntled Trump supporters abandoned the channel following its election night call of Arizona for President Joe Biden.

Fox News producer Abby Grossberg alleges the network "intimidated" her into softening her testimony to Dominion lawyers.

She alleges that network executives passed her over for a promotion despite her qualifications, and intentionally shopped out the vacant position exclusively to men. Grossberg made the move to Tucker Carlson Tonight in September of last year. The term “cunt” was invoked liberally, according to Grossberg. [to the filing](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.595940/gov.uscourts.nysd.595940.1.0.pdf), during preparatory meetings for her upcoming deposition Fox’s attorneys provided “emphatical head shakes ‘no,’ [or] shook their heads whenever Ms. In the exchange, Clark instructed Grossberg that there would be “no ‘fact checking’ today,” ahead of a segment featuring Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Bartiromo was one of the loudest voices broadcasting conspiracy theories claiming that Dominion helped manipulate the outcome of the election. Grossberg, who in the aftermath of the election worked as a producer for Bartiromo’s Sunday Morning Futures, exchanged emails with Bartiromo and senior network executives discussing the show’s treatment of claims of election fraud in the 2020 election. [regularly belittled](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/fox-news-execs-fact-check-fraud-claims-1234693164/) other members of the network behind their backs in texts and emails. Separately, Grossberg alleges that she was subject to a rampant culture of misogyny at Fox, and that the network both discriminated against her, and retaliated when she attempted to bring attention to the issue. The network The deposition preparations left Grossberg with the impression that Fox’s attorneys were attempting to subtly shift “all responsibility for the alleged defamation against Dominion” onto her and Bartiromo’s shoulders, and away from “the mostly male higher ups at Fox News who endorsed the repeated coverage of the lies against the Dominion.” [dropped the request](https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-gives-up-on-silencing-tucker-producer-suing-them?ref=home) days later, “without prejudice, and without costs to any party.” [Dominion](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/dominion/)’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News has put Grossberg in investigators’ crosshairs.

A Fox News producer accused the conservative media giant of rampant sexism and discrimination in the workplace in a lawsuit filed on Monday.

"We're all under stress," the producer allegedly said, according to the lawsuit. One producer, who himself had tattoos, agreed "that women with tattoos, nose piercings, or rainbow-colored hair were 'disgusting,'" according to the lawsuit. Apparently, the 'joke' was that Speaker Pelosi looked terrible in a bathing suit," the lawsuit alleges. A producer for a different Fox News show, the lawsuit alleges, called Bartiromo "not as credible as male anchors" at the network. Grossberg, which were made following a critical performance review." In the suit, she says that on her first day working on the "Tucker Carlson Tonight" show in September 2022, "she was shocked to be greeted by many large and blown-up photographs of Nancy Pelosi in a plunging bathing suit revealing her cleavage."

The former producer has filed a discrimination lawsuit against Fox News.

“Apparently, the ‘joke’ was that Speaker Pelosi looked terrible in a bathing suit.” The network denied that claim. Ms Grossberg claims in the suit that the treatment of Ms Pelosi, an active member of the House of Representatives who was in 2022 third in line for the presidency, was indicative of a pervasive atmosphere of misogyny, abuse and toxicity at the company.

BO SNERDLEY (HOST): Tucker, listen, I've had a number of people saying they read all these things in the paper -- "You hate Trump blah, blah, blah." But this it ...

And I was -- I was actually even thinking about it. And I said, "I agree with you. And I thought then and I think now that that election was not on the level, it was not a free and fair election. And so, I was trying to -- I wanted, you know, evidence. And I was so mad by the incompetence of that campaign, which was completely incompetent. And so I said to the Trump people, you know, "You're saying the election was rigged. I always say what I think. And I will say this. And I use, like bad language and stuff. And actually, and I'm pretty straight forward, I'm -- I love Trump. I was just -- I felt humiliated. I spent four years defending his policies and I -- I'm going to defend them again tonight.

Abby Grossberg, who worked as a senior booking producer on Tucker Carlson's prime time Fox News show Tucker Carlson Tonight, said in a lawsuit against the ...

And Carlson has [repeatedly](https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-says-women-making-more-money-men-leads-more-drug-and-alcohol-abuse) [attacked](https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-and-guest-claim-feminists-are-destroying-civilization-and-trying) [women’s struggle for equality](https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-spent-womens-history-month-parroting-youtubes-most-extreme) in America, [calling it](https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-i-dont-think-anything-has-changed-our-society-more-worse-feminism) “a movement that is at war with nature.” Carlson’s yearslong fixation on demeaning women and denying calls for gender equity resulted in Media Matters labeling him as a “ [professional sexist](https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/professional-sexist-tucker-carlson-misses-point-declares-victory-gender-pay-gap)” in 2017, a description that remains equally apt today. [explained in her lawsuit](https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/grossberg-sdny-complaint/e95101c181555b15/full.pdf#page=9), Fox in general and Carlson in particular have a long and troubled history with sexual harassment and abuse, which [stretches back](https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-times/sexual-harassment-fox-reported-press-throughout-years) at least as far as 2002. [pointed to](https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/grossberg-sdny-complaint/e95101c181555b15/full.pdf#page=16) [audio clips unearthed by Media Matters](https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/unearthed-audio-tucker-carlson-makes-numerous-misogynistic-and-perverted-comments) in which Carlson repeatedly excused or made light of child rape in comments on a radio program. [April 2014](https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/outnumbereds-tucker-carlson-sees-nothing-wrong-female-teacher-sexually-harassing), Carlson defended a teacher who performed a lap dance on a 15-year-old student during class, calling criminal charges in this case “deranged” because “there’s no victim,” before saying “this isn’t a crime.” In [May 2014](https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/foxs-carlson-men-understand-getting-sexually-harassed-female-teacher-greatest-thing), Carlson doubled down on this, saying: “Every man understands this; a 15 year-old boy looks at this as the greatest thing that ever happened.” And in [June 2014](https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/foxs-tucker-carlson-reporting-statutory-rape-whiny), Carlson said of the case of a female teacher who raped a 16-year-old male student: “It’s ludicrous that we’re calling this a rape,” saying the student “went and tattled to the police” and concluding “what a whiny country this is.” [Carlson’s on-air misogyny has old roots](https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/here-are-some-sexist-things-neo-nazi-favorite-and-oreilly-replacement-tucker-carlson), but has also continued in recent years. ... The rapist in this case has made a lifelong commitment to live and take care of the person so it is a little different.” He [also said](https://www.mediamatters.org/embed/clips/2019/03/04/64503/btls-09052006-hour3) criminal charges against former cult leader Warren Jeffs are “bullshit” because “arranging a marriage between a 16-year-old and a 27-year-old is not the same as pulling a stranger off the street and raping her.” And Carlson also [commented](https://www.mediamatters.org/embed/clips/2019/03/04/64499/btls-04042006-hour3f) that a teacher who raped a 13-year-old took pressure off the victim’s female classmates because they wouldn’t have to sleep with him. Last month, Carlson and a guest [said](https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucker-carlson-and-guest-say-women-arent-biologically-capable-being-employed-and-happy) that women aren’t biologically capable of being both employed and happy. In March 2021, Carlson [faced backlash](https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-faces-massive-backlash-after-he-insulted-women-serving-military) after insulting women who serve in the U.S. [setting her up](https://www.mediamatters.org/foxdominion-lawsuit/there-will-be-no-fact-checking-today-fox-news-producers-lawsuit-makes-it-clear) to take a fall in its $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems for Fox’s spreading of false claims about the 2020 election. Last year, she began working as a senior booking producer at “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” On her first full day, according to the lawsuit, Ms. This follows numerous incidents of sexual harassment (and worse) at Fox stretching back over two decades. Grossberg into his office, she said, to ask whether Ms. Carlson’s top producer, called Ms.

Tucker Carlson producer Abby Grossberg is suing Fox News alleging gender and religious-based discrimination, on the basis of her Jewish faith.

We will vigorously defend Fox against all of her claims and are confident we will prevail.” “Then, as if Fox News could not act any more unlawfully, the Network sued Ms. Her allegations in connection with the Dominion case are baseless. On Monday, Fox News filed a lawsuit in New York County Supreme Court seeking a declaration that Grossberg’s communications with the network’s attorneys are protected by attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine. “There could hardly be a more vivid and clear example of unlawful retaliation.” “While our office was fully prepared and ready to argue to the New York Supreme Court why Fox News’s baseless and retaliatory lawsuit seeking to restrain Ms. “We remain ready and eager to vindicate Fox News’s blatant and repeated violation of Ms. “FOX News Media engaged an independent outside counsel to immediately investigate the concerns raised by Ms. Grossberg claims that Fox “coerced, intimidated, and misinformed” her as they “prepared” her for her deposition in the The conservative network claims that Grossberg used the unrelated lawsuit in a “transparent attempt to gain leverage.” Grossberg from speaking out about her abhorrent experiences at the Network was frivolous, Fox News wisely decided to give up on its clearly meritless claims against Ms. Grossberg’s rights, including her right to not be baselessly sued in retaliation for complaining about unlawful conduct, in the Southern District of New York and in Delaware Superior Court.”

"I love Trump," the Fox News host said, as he discussed private text exchanges that said the exact opposite.