According to the latest court filings in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News, host Tucker Carlson expressed an intense dislike of former President Donald Trump in the wake of the 2020 election. The court filings were unsealed Tuesday.
“We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait… I hate him passionately,” Carlson said in a text sent to a coworker two days before the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, according to the filings. “What he’s good at is destroying things. He’s the undisputed world champion of that. He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong.”
Other documents showed Trump’s election fraud claims caused what a senior Fox executive called an “existential crisis” within the network, including an alleged rift between prime-time opinion hosts Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham and other personnel who were skeptical of election-fraud claims. According to the filings, the three hosts were upset that Fox was the first network to call the key battleground state of Arizona for President Joe Biden.
