Former Prime Minister Tucker Carlson has accused Boris Johnson of being “far more despicable and inferior than President Putin” after refusing to give an interview to an American journalist.
Prime Minister Johnson said he would be willing to hold a $1 million debate with the former Fox News host who interviewed President Vladimir Putin earlier this month.
Mr Carlson said Mr Johnson had asked for a $1 million payment for himself, but the former prime minister said this was “untrue” and the money he was seeking for the interview was instead given to Ukraine. The money will be donated to charity.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is then said to have withdrawn following the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The Foreign Ministry announced that Navalny had been killed.
Tucker Carlson slams Boris Johnson after refusing interview
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Mr. Johnson previously accused Mr. Carlson of acting as a “tool of the Kremlin” after it was revealed that Mr. Carlson had interviewed the Russian president, after which Mr. Carlson requested an interview.
Writing in the Daily Mail earlier this month, he described the sit-in by Carlson and Putin as the product of a “Hitler strategy.”
Mr. Carlson said that after repeated attempts to secure a meeting with Mr. Johnson, his adviser finally agreed. They allegedly said, “He will talk to you, but it will cost $1 million.”
Recalling this conversation, Carlson told the Blaze: I’m not defending Putin, but he didn’t ask for $1 million. So does that mean Boris Johnson is much more despicable than Vladimir Putin? ”
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Carlson said Johnson was “more despicable than Putin.”
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A spokesman for Mr Johnson said: “This account is false.”
Carlson has been harshly criticized for sitting down with the Russian president for two hours after defending him by saying, “Leadership requires killing.”
He let Putin speak at length about pet topics such as Russian and European history, which the former KGB man said he hadn’t expected, and went on to explain how “soft” Karlsson was. As for what would happen, he added, “I wasn’t ready.”
After the sit-in in Moscow, the American journalist was interviewed on Monday at the World Government Summit in Dubai by Egyptian journalist Emad El-Din Adeeb, who grilled him on the questions he failed to ask Putin. It was done.
Adeeb said: “You should try the interview role, and you’re a business expert. I’m not going to lecture you on it, but try some ideas.”
Earlier this month, Tucker Carlson met with Russian leader Vladimir Putin for two hours.Tucker Carlson Network on X
“For example, you didn’t talk about freedom of speech in Russia. You didn’t talk about Alexei Navalny, you didn’t talk about the assassination, you didn’t talk about restricting the opposition in the next election.”
Carlson responded: “I didn’t talk about things that other American media covered, because they were covered, and I spent my life talking to the people who run the nations of different countries and Because I came to the conclusion that all leaders, including mine, kill people.
“All leaders kill people, but some leaders kill more people than others. Leadership requires killing people, sorry, that’s why I don’t want to be a leader.” is.”
Many people criticized Carlson online. Liz Cheney, the former House Republican leader who was ousted for her strong criticism of former President Donald Trump, wrote on social media: “This is Putin’s Russia, Tucker Carlson. And you are Putin’s convenient fool.”
Meghan McCain, a former co-host on The View, said: “Kremlin propagandist Tucker Carlson, President Putin’s favorite convenient idiot, didn’t answer much about Navalny’s life when asked about him a few days ago.” We must never forget that it didn’t happen.”