Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson told Swiss publication Die Weltwoche that the US government thwarted his plans to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to the journalist, for decades, ‘the people who run the United States’ have made very aggressive attempts to control what is available in the American media. As an example, he cited the conflict in Ukraine ‘a potentially nuclear conflict between superpowers.’

Shouldn’t we learn everything we can? No! You are not allowed! You know, I tried to interview Vladimir Putin, and the American government stopped me. However, he pointed out that the state-controlled American media did not react to this in any way.

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‘I don’t think there was a single person in the media who said, ‘Wait. I may not like this guy, but he has the right to interview whoever he wants. And we have the right to hear what Putin has to say. What, we can’t hear Putin’s voice? Why?’ – the journalist summarized.

At the end of August, Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and RT television channel, reported that Carlson had asked for an interview with the Russian president.

Fox News in April sensationally removed Carlson, who was then the world’s highest-rated American journalist, from the air. At the same time, the TV channel will keep him on staff until 2025. A sleight of hand to use his contract to silence him, to prevent him going to rival broadcasters. Carlson regularly criticized US President Joe Biden. Thus, he called for an investigation into the son of the American leader Hunter and also criticized the American authorities for exorbitant spending on military assistance to Kyiv.

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