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A look at the time Tucker Carlson asked Hunter Biden for a favor
TL; DR: Buckley ended up at UVa.
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WaPo has verified 2014 emails in which Tucker Carlson and his wife asked Hunter Biden for help in getting their son into Georgetown.
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A look at the time Tucker Carlson asked Hunter Biden for a favor
Tucker Carlson and his wife were looking to get their son a leg up on his application to Georgetown University when they turned to a well-connected Washington friend who had an even better-connected...
A look at the time Tucker Carlson asked Hunter Biden for a favor
Tucker Carlson and his wife were looking to get their son a leg up on his application to Georgetown University when they turned to a well-connected Washington friend who had an even better-connected...
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A look at the time Tucker Carlson asked Hunter Biden for a favor
The Fox News host often ridicules the president’s son, but years ago, the two were close
By Matt Viser
May 19, 2022 at 12:43 p.m. EDT
Tucker Carlson and his wife were looking to get their son a leg up in his college application to Georgetown University when they turned to a well-connected Washington friend who had an even better-connected father. ...“I realize you don’t really know Buckley,” Susie Carlson wrote via email in 2014 to Hunter Biden, a Georgetown graduate and the son of the then-vice president. “Maybe you could meet or speak to him and he could send you a very brief resume with his interests and grades attached.”
Tucker Carlson offered that his son was a good squash player and an excellent fly fisherman. “He loves Washington for all the right reasons, I think,” Carlson added, “and really wants to go to school here.” When Biden agreed to write a letter of recommendation, Susie Carlson added a heap of praise: “Tucker and I have the greatest respect and admiration for you. Always!”
The Carlsons’ past entreaties to Biden may come as a surprise to many present-day viewers of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the highly rated, prime-time Fox News show on which the host has repeatedly ridiculed Biden for seeking to profit off his family connections and at times for his history of personal troubles and drug use. ... The interactions reveal the extent to which Carlson was willing to turn on a former associate as he thrives in a hyperpartisan media world in which conservatives have made Biden a prime target for attack during his father’s presidency. They also show how Carlson once sought to benefit from the elite political circles in Washington that he now regularly rails against as the “ruling class.”
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It is unclear whether Biden ended up writing the letter. It is also unclear whether Buckley Carlson got into Georgetown, but he attended the University of Virginia. Buckley Carlson, who is now the communications director for Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), did not respond to requests for comment. ... Tucker Carlson declined to comment about the request for a letter of recommendation, saying only that his son did not go to Georgetown. ... The unlikely connection between Biden and Carlson illustrates the ways Washington works, or at least used to, with odd alliances combining forces to help one another with personal favors. Each now is seen by one part of the political spectrum as the personification of evil.
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Alice Crites, Tom Hamburger and Craig Timberg contributed to this report.
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https://wapo.st/3PtNqad
By Matt Viser
Matt Viser is a White House reporter for The Washington Post. He joined The Post in October 2018, covering the midterms and the 2020 presidential election. He was previously deputy chief of the Washington bureau for the Boston Globe, where he covered Congress, presidential campaigns in 2012 and 2016, and John Kerry’s tenure as secretary of state. Twitter https://twitter.com/mviser
A look at the time Tucker Carlson asked Hunter Biden for a favor
The Fox News host often ridicules the president’s son, but years ago, the two were close
By Matt Viser
May 19, 2022 at 12:43 p.m. EDT
Tucker Carlson and his wife were looking to get their son a leg up in his college application to Georgetown University when they turned to a well-connected Washington friend who had an even better-connected father. ...“I realize you don’t really know Buckley,” Susie Carlson wrote via email in 2014 to Hunter Biden, a Georgetown graduate and the son of the then-vice president. “Maybe you could meet or speak to him and he could send you a very brief resume with his interests and grades attached.”
Tucker Carlson offered that his son was a good squash player and an excellent fly fisherman. “He loves Washington for all the right reasons, I think,” Carlson added, “and really wants to go to school here.” When Biden agreed to write a letter of recommendation, Susie Carlson added a heap of praise: “Tucker and I have the greatest respect and admiration for you. Always!”
The Carlsons’ past entreaties to Biden may come as a surprise to many present-day viewers of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the highly rated, prime-time Fox News show on which the host has repeatedly ridiculed Biden for seeking to profit off his family connections and at times for his history of personal troubles and drug use. ... The interactions reveal the extent to which Carlson was willing to turn on a former associate as he thrives in a hyperpartisan media world in which conservatives have made Biden a prime target for attack during his father’s presidency. They also show how Carlson once sought to benefit from the elite political circles in Washington that he now regularly rails against as the “ruling class.”
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It is unclear whether Biden ended up writing the letter. It is also unclear whether Buckley Carlson got into Georgetown, but he attended the University of Virginia. Buckley Carlson, who is now the communications director for Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), did not respond to requests for comment. ... Tucker Carlson declined to comment about the request for a letter of recommendation, saying only that his son did not go to Georgetown. ... The unlikely connection between Biden and Carlson illustrates the ways Washington works, or at least used to, with odd alliances combining forces to help one another with personal favors. Each now is seen by one part of the political spectrum as the personification of evil.
{snip}
Alice Crites, Tom Hamburger and Craig Timberg contributed to this report.
Gift Article
https://wapo.st/3PtNqad
By Matt Viser
Matt Viser is a White House reporter for The Washington Post. He joined The Post in October 2018, covering the midterms and the 2020 presidential election. He was previously deputy chief of the Washington bureau for the Boston Globe, where he covered Congress, presidential campaigns in 2012 and 2016, and John Kerry’s tenure as secretary of state. Twitter https://twitter.com/mviser
