Posted on 05/04/2023 3:40:19 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Tucker Carlson is reportedly in talks with former President Donald Trump to host a GOP forum featuring Republican presidential contenders, a move that could mean millions of dollars forfeited for the former Fox News host as he is still legally obligated to the network until the end of 2024, reports The Washington Post.
Sources told the Post that Carlson may be willing to give up the money Fox owes him as part of his noncompete clause if it means he can publicly reestablish his image faster.
"He could go straight to the candidates, stream it live, invite the networks but maintain control over the process," said one person familiar with the discussions.
Fox News in late April ousted Carlson a week after the network agreed to pay more than $787 million to settle a lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems.
Fox said that the network and Carlson had "agreed to part ways," but offered no explanation for the stunning move, saying that the last broadcast of "Tucker Carlson Tonight" aired on April 14. Carlson ended the show by saying, "We'll be back on Monday."
Trump reportedly is leaning toward skipping at least one or two of the first two GOP presidential primary debates because of his "massive" lead in the polls.
"When you're way up, you don't do debates. If you're even or down, you do debates. But when you're way up, what's the purpose of doing the debate?" Trump asked on the "Cats & Cosby" show with hosts John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby.
Trump's relationship with Fox News has been strained since the network on election night in 2020 called Arizona for Joe Biden.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
"How does Rupert Murdoch say there was no election fraud when 2000 Mules shows, on government tape, that there were millions of 'stuffed ballots,'" Trump, referring to Dinesh D'Souza's election denial film, asked on his Truth Social platform, "& Elon Musk released the FBI/Twitter Files, where pollsters say that the silencing of information made a 17% difference in the Vote. Then there was, of course, FBI/Facebook, another big election integrity fraud costing millions of Votes-& this doesn't even count all of the many other ways they cheated, or the fact that they avoided State Legislatures?"
The lockdown and vax prez?? Seems like oil and water.
Or maybe Tucker is a Disney groomer fan too.
O’Reilly says the no-compete clause only includes direct competitors, not the internet.
Yepo......he’s already been offered $100 mil.
Cool. Get Trucker, who is not necessarily in Trump’s corner, to host the debates. At least it would be more fair than weasels like Chris Wallace running the show.
There must be something in Tucker’s contract that is very damaging personally because he is quite wealthy.
Paul Ryan is probably on the phone with Desantis as we speak.
What if the meeting is a ruse to discuss Tucker joining the ticket as VP?
I see the biggest loony tune on FR has popped up again. You should change your name to moonbat in combatboots
Ping
That was over a five year period.
$ holds him down with fox, company interested in him should add this to his new contract and F fox
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