‘Highly Offensive’ Tucker Carlson Messages Stunned Fox News Execs Before Exit: Report
Fox News executives and board members were stunned after the company’s lawyers shared details of private messages from Tucker Carlson that featured deeply offensive, crude remarks, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
Fox lawyers uncovered the messages while preparing for the company’s defense against Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit, but the top brass only learned of them a day before the trial was set to begin.
The Times said the messages, which sources described but didn’t share with the newspaper, set off a “crisis” at Fox and went beyond Carlson’s already-offensive comments on his prime-time...