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Tucker Carlson Tells Biographer ‘Being Racist Is Not a Crime’

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“If I was racist, I’d just say so. But I’m not.”

Former Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson reacts as he speaks during the Turning Point Action Conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, July 15, 2023.
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Tucker Carlson told his biographer that he believes “being racist is not a crime” and that while he doesn’t consider himself a racist, he would “just say so” if he did. The comments appear in a new biography by Chadwick Moore, Tucker, which is due to be published in the U.S. next week. According to The Guardian, which obtained a copy of the book, Carlson says: “Maybe [it is] a moral crime, but not a statutory crime—so if I was racist, I would just say so.” He also addresses a message he sent after seeing a video of a group of Trump supporters attacking a left-wing protester in which he wrote: “It’s not how white men fight.” “Fox told the New York Times they pulled me off [the air] because I was racist. But I’m not racist, actually. I’m not insecure about that. If I was racist, I’d just say so. But I’m not.” He later adds: “What I said is that’s not how white men fight, which as far as I’m concerned is true.”

Read it at The Guardian