Tucker Carlson, Fox News’s superstar anchor who was not too long ago unceremoniously fired from the information channel he dominated for years might have been requested to go due to a textual content message that uncovered his perspective on violence.

In line with a report in New York Instances, discovery of an outdated textual content message from Tucker Carlson despatched to his information producers a day after Capitol violence might have alerted the Fox administration and led to his sudden firing.

On January 6, 2021, hours after Trump supporters unleashed violence on the Capitol, Carlson expressed his views stating his views on an incident which occurred a couple of days again, ‘Trump guys surrounded an Antifa child and began pounding him’.

He additional went on to state, ‘it was three in opposition to one.’

He then uncovered his views on violence in opposition to the ‘Antifa child’ and by stating he hoped the child can be killed, ‘It’s not how white males combat. But instantly I discovered myself rooting for the mob in opposition to the person, hoping they’d hit him tougher, kill him.’

‘I actually needed them to harm the child. I might style it.’ He wrote.

Tucker Carlson’s message has gone viral on social media and read-

New York Instances additional studies, this message got here to Fox management’s discover solely final month as they ready to go on trial in opposition to Dominion Voting System which had filed a defamation case in opposition to the media conglomerate. ‘The textual content alarmed the Fox board’, the outlet reported and said that the management was involved that this textual content can be public at trial and create a sensational and damaging second that may additional increase questions in regards to the firm. It was a time Fox was getting into into out of court docket settlement.

Fox then initiated an investigation in opposition to Carlson to grasp the rationale behind his statements. This solely added to different inside points piling up in opposition to Carlson and made the administration consider that he was changing into extra of a legal responsibility than an asset and needed to let go. Additionally it is being reported that this message might have been the rationale behind Fox deciding to settle the Dominion case for $787.5 million.