(Headline USA) Fox News is reportedly hemorrhaging employees in the wake of Tucker Carlson’s ouster, with several leaving the network to join Carlson’s next venture, according to journalist Chadwick Moore.
Moore, who is publishing a biography of Carlson this summer, alleged this week that nine Fox employees who previously worked on Tucker Carlson Tonight have left to work with Carlson again. The employees directly reached out to Carlson about the opportunity, Moore added.
“My sources have now told me *NINE* former Tucker Carlson Tonight staffers have left Fox News to join Tucker on his next venture,” Moore tweeted. “There are others who are waiting to leave as soon as a role opens up for them with Tucker. Each of the 9 approached Tucker, not the other way around.”
One of the employees who has joined Carlson was the Fox News producer fired for allowing a chyron labeling President Joe Biden a “wannabe dictator” to air.
“The Based Chyron Guy, Alex McCaskill, was a former Tucker Carlson Tonight producer who has now left Fox News after ten years, en route to joining Tucker’s new team. He is one of at least three former producers who have left Fox to join Tucker’s new venture,” Moore reported.
Tucker Carlson’s team at Fox was extremely close. Most of them were there from the launch of the show until it’s end, and they’ve stood by their boss in the aftermath. I write about it in my book https://t.co/bIUKaSo2Dv
— Chadwick Moore (@Chadwick_Moore) June 17, 2023
The chyron was live for less than a minute before it was pulled from the air, but the producer was fired from the network shortly after.
Carlson publicly defended the chyron in an episode of “Tucker on Twitter,” his new show, last week, blasting Fox News for suppressing the truth.
“Lies don’t seem to bother anyone anymore,” Carlson said.
“If some cable news producer had called Joe Biden a genius or accused him of being secretly Sudanese, would anyone be yelling about it?” he continued. “Would Fox News have apologized for it? But calling Joe Biden a wanna-be dictator, that stung.”
Ep. 4 Wannabe Dictator pic.twitter.com/MDcs5g0gxB
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 15, 2023
