Fury as Tucker Carlson showers Andrew Tate with praise and claims sex trafficking charges against him were dreamt up by ‘Epstein’s dinner partners’ in gushing two-and-a-half hour interview he flew to Romania for
- Carlson has now sparked outrage after the release of his interview with Tate
- Tate and brother Tristan were indicted on human trafficking and rape charges
Tucker Carlson has stoked fury once again as he showered Andrew Tate with praise in an interview with the ‘influencer’ – claiming the sex trafficking charges against him were dreamt up by ‘Epstein’s dinner partners’.
The former Fox News host, 54, flew to Romania to sit down for a two-and-a-half-hour-long interview with Tate as part of his new Tucker On Twitter series, in an episode now viewed over 40 million times on the social media platform.
Last month, Tate, 36, and his brother Tristan were indicted on human trafficking and rape charges in Romania after their initial arrest at the end of last year. Carlson previously called Tate’s arrest a ‘conspiracy’ and ‘human rights violation’.
Carlson has now sparked outrage after the release of his interview with Tate, with critics slamming him for not ‘fact checking anything he said’ and for ‘singing the praises of an accused rapist’.
While many hit out, Elon Musk dubbed the interview ‘interesting’, after Carlson said he uploaded it to Twitter because it wouldn’t be taken down.
Tucker Carlson flew to Romania to sit down for a two-and-a-half-hour-long interview with Tate as part of his new Tucker On Twitter series
Carlson has now sparked outrage after the release of his interview with Tate for his latest Tucker On Twitter release
Carlson – who previously hailed Tate as ‘really smart’ and ‘really real’ – glared down the camera, telling viewers: ‘Jeffrey Epstein’s dinner partners insist that Andrew Tate is a pervert and a criminal. Maybe they’re telling the truth. Either way, we think Tates’ views about men very much deserve a hearing.’
The former Fox News host continued: ‘It’s also true that in some ways, the charges against the Tates seem inevitable, like they were always going to happen. Accusing a man of a sex crime is the fastest possible way to discredit what he’s saying.’
Carlson – who was fired from Fox News earlier this year for unknown reasons and joined up with Musk and Twitter – asked viewers to ‘make up your own mind’.
But users hit back at the latest release of the show, with some calling Carlson a ‘clown’ for interviewing a convicted human trafficker.
‘Somehow Tucker felt no obligation to fact check anything Andrew Tate said?’, another Twitter user noted.
‘Glorifying an accused rapist/human trafficker. For two and a half hours. This man until not long ago had the most popular cable show in America,’ another said.
The show also drew criticism from the likes of DailyBeast reporter Justin Baragona, who said: ”After lamenting about how young men are now withdrawing into porn, Tucker Carlson then proceeds to sympathetically interview an unapologetic pornographer – for two and a half hours!’
Former Republican presidential candidate Joe Walsh said: ‘Two and a half hours defending & singing the praises of an accused rapist and human trafficker. So brave.’
Andrew Tate is pictured in an episode of Tucker On Twitter now viewed over 40 million times on the social media platform
Andrew Tate is pictured in the interview which Elon Musk dubbed as ‘interesting’
While Carlson appeared to defend Tate, saying ‘earlier generations of Western leaders might have found parts of Tate’s message inspiring’ but ‘now it’s seen as a threat,’ the criticism of the talk show host continued.
Conservative radio talk show host Erick Erickson said: ‘Tate is charged in Romania with rape, human trafficking, and forming an organised crime group to sexually exploit women.
‘Are you an Andrew Tate right winger or a Sound of Freedom right winger. You can’t really be both.’
Another wrote: ‘Tucker promotes child sex trafficker…again.’
The criticism continued: ‘This is such an L man what are you doing.’
Carlson has previously voiced his support for Tate. After the self-proclaimed misogynist’s arrested on December 29, he told the Full Send Podcast: ‘First of all he’s really smart. That’s completely real. 100 percent.’
In the same interview, Carlson claimed that the same people who live on ‘Pedo Island with Epstein’ and ‘the same people that were friends with Harvey Weinstein’ were claiming to protect women by rebuking Tate.
Both Tate and his brother have continually denied the charges against them.
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