What’s next for Tucker Carlson?


Shortly after Fox agreed to pay the largest publicly disclosed defamation settlement in history to Dominion Voting Systems, the network fired Tucker Carlson, its most popular prime-time host. The reasons for his firing haven’t been officially disclosed, but there’s plenty of speculation from both the left and the right. Two days after being dismissed, Carlson posted a somewhat cryptic video response on Twitter, saying “True things prevail. Where can you still find Americans saying true things? There aren’t many places left but there are some, and that’s enough.”

Now the focus has turned to speculation about what Tucker Carlson will do next. As Straight Arrow News contributor David Pakman explains, Carlson has plenty of options.

What’s next for Tucker? No idea. Of course, there are media outlets that would love to have Tucker. Newsmax. Newsmax is much smaller than Fox News. And if Newsmax were able to get a voice like Tucker Carlson’s, it would be an incredible coup for them. However, it’s probably not Tucker’s best bet, having an understanding of the media landscape. Tucker could take the easiest path by just accepting a nice salary from someone like Newsmax. He would stand to make way more money by launching his own thing, although it would come with the headache of the fact that you’re not just collecting a salary, you’re sort of in charge of an entity. But this was even floated between Tucker and someone he was texting with, in now released text messages, thanks to the Dominion lawsuit, that there was — it was either a producer or someone around Tucker — who was texting him saying, ‘Hey, listen, we should like launch our own podcast and website platforms, sell memberships blah, blah bah-bah, it’ll be profitable, here’s how much we could make.’

That’s probably the best way to go for Tucker Carlson.