(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) Tucker Carlson said he was ousted by Fox News to complete the negotiations in the $787.5 million Dominion defamation lawsuit against the network and to prevent former boss Rupert Murdoch from testifying at trial.
Fox News agreed to take Carlson off the air to settle the lawsuit, according to the Daily Mail. “They had to settle this; Rupert [Murdoch] couldn’t testify. I think that deal was made minutes before the trial started,” Carlson said in his biography, due on U.S. shelves Aug. 1.
“I mean, I know it was,” the former top-rated prime-time host of Fox said. Fox News and Dominion both vehemently denied any connection between Carlson’s ouster at the network, or that his departure was part of a behind-the-scenes agreement.
Carlson wrote he “understands” the decision, and also clarified that his exit wasn’t connected to a 2021 text message sent to a producer that stated, in part, “It’s not how white men fight,” after Carlson recalled a group of three white men attacking an “Antifa kid,” the news outlet noted.
Carlson was more riled about the defamation thrown his way from his former employer, the book reportedly revealed.
“My view was you don’t have to attack me, okay? You canceled my show but that doesn’t mean you have to tell people that you fired me – which they didn’t; I’m still on the payroll as of right now,” said Carlson, who will keep his annual salary of $20 million.
Carlson explained that he had nothing to do with the Dominion suit. The whole “claim was silly and they got it in front of some sort of partisan, low-IQ jury, and they were worried they were going to lose. So that’s not justice, that’s a scam,” he asserted.
“The whole point [of the case] was to emasculate Fox, take Fox out of the game because Fox was a huge vector for Donald Trump.”
