Texts Reveal Tucker Carlson Felt the Hatred He Instilled in Viewers – Rolling Stone

A text message obtained by the New York Times shows Tucker Carlson allegedly describing a video that showed a “group of Trump guys” beating an “Antifa kid,” and stating that “It’s not how white men fight.” 

The discovery of the message was part of the Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News, according to the report, and led to the abrupt firing of Carlson — who hawked racist rhetoric on his show Tucker Carlson Tonight for years.

The former host sent the message on Jan. 7, 2021 to one of his producers after Trump supporters attacked the Capitol on on Jan. 6, 2021.

In the message, Carlson allegedly wrote how Trump supporters beat “an Antifa kid.” Carlson then reportedly expressed a desire to see the men kill the person he had described as the Antifa kid, while stating, “It’s not how white men fight.”

The previously unreported text was part of redacted court filings. Fox’s board saw the message a day before the company was scheduled for a jury trial against Dominion, and worried that Carlson’s text would become public if he testified on the stand, according to the Times.

The full text message was revealed by the Times on Tuesday.

“Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It’s not how white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it,” Carlson wrote, according to the Times.

“Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: this isn’t good for me. I’m becoming something I don’t want to be. The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I’m sure I’d hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn’t gloat over his suffering. I should be bothered by it. I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this kid, and would be crushed if he was killed,” Carlson continued, per the report. “If I don’t care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?”

Carlson, the network’s foremost purveyor of white supremacist rhetoric and the “great replacement” theory, was ousted from Fox last week.