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Tucker Carlson told associates he voted for Kanye, not Trump
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Oliver Darcy
@oliverdarcy
"He’s one of Donald Trump’s most vociferous backers. But Tucker Carlson has told multiple people that he voted for pop star Kanye West last year instead.”
Tucker Carlson told associates he voted for Kanye, not Trump
It’s not clear whether the Fox News host actually put West on his ballot, however, and Carlson isn’t commenting.
politico.com
12:19 PM · Jul 1, 2021
Oliver Darcy
@oliverdarcy
"He’s one of Donald Trump’s most vociferous backers. But Tucker Carlson has told multiple people that he voted for pop star Kanye West last year instead.”
Tucker Carlson told associates he voted for Kanye, not Trump
It’s not clear whether the Fox News host actually put West on his ballot, however, and Carlson isn’t commenting.
politico.com
12:19 PM · Jul 1, 2021
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/01/tucker-carlson-kanye-west-2020-vote-497654
Carlson has praised West on his program. Last August, he called him “the most compelling voice against abortion and Planned Parenthood.”
“[O]n core conservative issues, not political issues like legislation before the Congress, but on foundational questions about life and children and what happens when you die, no one with a national platform has been more honest or sincere or effective than Kanye West has been,” Carlson said. “Maybe in generations.”
In 2018, Carlson implicitly compared West to Trump after the hip-hop artist, wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, visited the Oval Office to ostensibly discuss issues like criminal justice reform and other policies that affect Black Americans. The meeting devolved into West pontificating for 10 minutes on issues such as “male energy,” sleep deprivation and his own mental health.
“[M]uch like someone else who comes to mind, West may be precisely crazy enough to think for himself, and that’s a valuable quality right now,” Carlson said. “But listen carefully to what he said. Sprinkled throughout his ramblings are flashes of truth, real insights into the way the world actually is rather than the way they tell us it is. … And that makes him dangerous to a system that is based almost entirely on piety and lying. If you’re benefiting from a system like that, Kanye West must be crushed.”
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