Just look at the transcript.
The conversation is done in very short sentences back and forth between supposedly Tucker and Putin. I have never seen an interview so simplistic with no in depth answers.
And the questions are not even soft-ball, its college-level.
Not at all the more well-driven questions Tucker is known for.
It’s a typical chat-gpt style conversation. It is entertaining but thats all. The whole interview is way too simplistic.
It wouldn’t be the first time an authoritarian leader wrote an interview script and handed it to a “journalist” saying, “you asked me these questions and here are the answers.”
But I wouldn’t expect TC to go along with that. Not sure what to make of this supposed transcript, but I don’t believe it is the full story anyway.