Tucker Carlson is known, among other things, for comments sympathetic to the Kremlin. He was one of the most popular presenters of Fox News in the United States before he was fired last year.
The former favorite host of the US Fox news channel by Tucker Carlson The visit to Moscow has sparked speculation as to whether he will Donald Trump’s credit reporter to interview the president of Russia Vladimir Putin.
The news agency Reuters and a British newspaper reported on the matter, among others The Guardian.
Carlson’s visit has been rumored since Russian media reported over the weekend that Carlson had been spotted in the city. He was filmed at the Bolshoi Theater, among others.
The reason for Carlson’s trip to Russia is unknown. On Sunday, he praised Moscow as beautiful to the Russian newspaper Izvestia and said he wanted to see the city.
“I just wanted to see it because I’ve read so much about it but I’ve never seen it,” Carlson said.
When asked about interviewing Putin, Carlson said that “it remains to be seen.”
If the interview takes place, Carlson would be the first western journalist to address Putin since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The Kremlin has also not confirmed the rumor about the interview. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday that the Russian administration cannot be expected to comment on the actions of individual journalists.
– Foreign journalists come to Russia every day. Many still work here, which we welcome, says Peskov.
– We have nothing to report about the president’s interviews in foreign media.
Trump’s credit anchor
Carlson’s program was one of the most popular on Fox News. He interviewed President Trump numerous times.
The ultra-conservative Carlson became a popular figure in Russia during the Trump era as well. Carlson regularly mocked claims that Russia had meddled in the 2016 US presidential election.
He has since repeated the Kremlin’s rhetoric about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. For example, he has criticized the United States for supporting Ukraine and said that Western countries should be blamed for the outbreak of the war.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky Among other things, Carlson has been called a dictator.
The Kremlin has used Carlson’s statements in the Russian state media as proof that the United States also has sympathies for Putin’s war.
Carlson was fired from Fox News last year. The reason for the dismissal was not made public.