Tucker Carlson biographer says Dominion demanded Fox host was fired

2023-05-22

Tucker Carlson biographer who spent more than 100 hours with the fired Fox News host claims he was taken off the air as condition demanded by Dominion lawsuit

Carlson’s biographer claimed in a video on Twitter the host was dropped by Fox as part of its $787.5 million settlement with Dominion
Chadwick Moore, whose book ‘Tucker’ is slated for release in July, said sources with ‘intimate knowledge of the situation’ confirmed the claim
Fox said it was ‘categorically false’ and a lawyer for Dominion has also denied the company demanded that Carlson step down

Tucker Carlson has shared claims from his biographer that Dominion demanded the host was axed by Fox News as part of its $787.5 million settlement with the network – which Fox has labeled ‘categorically false’.

Chadwick Moore, whose book ‘Tucker’ is slated for release in July, said his sources confirmed that Carlson’s departure on April 24 was a condition of the Dominion settlement.

The voting systems company sued Fox for defamation over claims the network broadcast false statements about it following the 2020 election. Fox said it was ‘categorically false’ that Carlson’s departure was a condition of the settlement and a lawyer for Dominion has also rejected the claim.

In a video shared to Twitter on Monday to promote the book, Moore said: ‘It has now been reported that his firing was a condition demanded by Dominion as part of the settlement with Fox.

‘Although Dominion has denied this, my sources have intimate knowledge of the situation and they have assured me even before this news leaked, that that is in fact the truth.’

Chadwick Moore, whose book ‘Tucker’ is slated for release in July, said his sources confirmed Carlson’s departure on April 24 was a condition of the Dominion deal. Fox and Dominion deny the claim

Tucker Carlson, pictured in his final Fox News broadcast, was dropped by Fox News in April after controversies including the network’s $787.5 million settlement with Dominion. Both Fox and Dominion have rejected claims Carlson’s departure was a condition of the settlement

Carlson retweeted the video and posted the eyes emoji.

In the video, Moore added: ‘If that is true, it would mean that a small group of people who have a controlling interest in Dominion have managed to silence what is arguably the most important and influential conservative voice in the country, possibly until after the next presidential election.’

Fox said it was ‘categorically false’ that Carlson’s exit was part of the network’s settlement with Dominion.

Stephen Shackelford, partner at Susman Godfrey LLP and co-lead of the Dominion case against Fox, previously told Axios: ‘Dominion did not insist on them firing Tucker Carlson as part of the settlement.’ Shackleford acknowledged that Carlson’s departure ‘resulted out of all of this’.

Moore said he has spent the past year working on his biography of Carlson and ‘was working closely with Tucker when he was taken off the air by Fox’.

‘I’ve gotten to know Tucker, his family, his friends and his staff very well. In fact, I’ve got to know Tucker the person, not the caricature that his enemies try to portray,’ he said.

‘I was also a regular on his show and I happened to be a guest on the final episode of the show.’

Moore said he had seen the monologue Carlson intended to deliver on April 24 before his show was canned.

Carlson intended to talk about the ‘investigations around January 6′ and ‘the people and forces that are trying to silence him, like AOC and others in government’.

He said he was ‘confident that [Carlson] will not be silenced’.

Carlson retweeted his biographer’s video and cryptically added an eyes emoji to the post

Stephen Shackelford (pictured right with Dominion Voting Systems CEO John Poulos and other members of his legal team) said ‘Dominion did not insist on them firing Tucker Carlson as part of the settlement’

Fox said it was was ‘categorically false’ that Carlson’s exit was part of the network’s settlement with Dominion

Carlson now plans to launch a version of his show on Twitter.

Announcing the project earlier this month with a three-minute video captioned ‘We’re back’, he took aim at mainstream media and claimed anyone who tries to tell the truth will be disposed of.

Before the announcement, Carlson’s powerful attorneys sent an aggressive letter to Fox arguing that the $25million noncompete provision in his contract is no longer valid, which would in turn allow him to launch a competing show, or media entity.

In the video, Carlson, 54, told his followers: ‘Starting soon we’ll be bringing a new version of the show we’ve been doing for the last six and a half years to Twitter.’

The boss of Dominion hailed its record-breaking settlement as a ‘big step forward in democracy’.

John Poulos said it was important for the political system to ‘send a signal that if media companies lie … and they do so knowingly, they will be prepared to pay a very, very high price.’

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