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tucker carlson Threatened a student during a question-and-answer session at a university event, who accused the podcaster and former fox news being the anchor’s father cia,
On Tuesday, Carlson appeared at Indiana University as part of the “American Comeback Tour” from Turning Point USA, the group founded by the late conservative activist. charlie kirkDuring a student question about why the US continues to support the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, a questioner made a derogatory reference to Carlson’s father. richard carlson Was in CIA.
“Your dad was in cia And I was wondering whether our government also wants the war to stop?” The student said. “Do they want the conflict to end?”
Although carlson He smiled in response, as if the question was bothering him.
“Leave my father out of this,” carlson Said.
Carlson continued, “I’d have to kick your s***, which I could, by the way, if you brought it up again because he was an amazing guy, he did whatever he did for a living,” Carlson said, adding that he “really” hated that aspect of the question and warned the student not to “test” him.
Richard Carlson, a former journalist and Reagan administration official who passed away earlier this yearHas said that he had encounters with the intelligence community, but there is no public evidence that he was ever in the CIA.
Carlson ran the US government-backed Voice of America foreign media network at the end of the Cold War, and Tucker Carlson Said His father “worked closely” with the CIA while in government.
Former official, who later served as US Ambassador to Seychelles, told A 1993 oral history project documented how, during his tenure at Voice of America, the media network was sometimes targeted by foreign intelligence services.
Richard Carlson has denied that his staff were spies and that US intelligence services controlled the material they produced, although he acknowledged in an oral history that VOA’s work often amounted to espionage in the hostile countries where it broadcast.
“Voice of America correspondents were not spies, they were journalists, but unfortunately in the rigid society of the People’s Republic [of China] You do your things in secret only because you can’t do them any other way,” he said.
After leaving government, Carlson remained well-connected in Washington lobbying and think tank circles.
Tucker Carlson said, “The last 25 years of his life were spent in work, the details of which were never entirely clear to his family, but which clearly intrigued him.” wrote In an obituary. “He operated in dozens of countries and breakaway republics around the world, and was involved in countless intrigues.”
White nationalist podcaster Nick Fuentes is a critic and opponent of both Carlson and the late Kirk. claimed Carlson’s father was in the CIA in the past.