Recently, former Fox News personality and current social media host Tucker Carlson went to Russia to have a sit-down interview with Russian President Vladamir Putin. Carlson has been roundly criticized by RINOs as well as the left, even being called a “traitor” by the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, for interviewing the Russian President.
Never mind that Putin has been interviewed by American journalists like Barbara Walters in the past, but considering Carlson’s reputation as a somewhat right-leaning figure, he is receiving far more criticism than Walters did. Considering the conflict in Ukraine, many on the left drew a new line regarding Putin. Carlson has offered to interview Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky without success.
Still, the diminutive leader of Ukraine did speak to Fox News host Bret Baier recently and voiced his displeasure with Tucker Carlson and the interview with Putin. Many in the media described Carlson’s interview as “fawning,” and Zelensky, despite admittedly not watching much of it, had strong comments.
Baier asked Zelensky: “My former colleague, Tucker Carlson, recently traveled to Moscow and sat down for an interview with Vladimir Putin. Did you happen to see that or coverage of it?” Visibly irritated, the comedian-turned-president said: “I heard some messages in the media, and also my guys who are advisers told me. I don’t have time to hear more than two hours of bullshit about us. About the world, about the United States, about our relations and this interview with a killer. So, I’ve got some—briefly—of what was there.”
Zelensky wasn’t the only Ukrainian official peeved at Tucker Carlson for wanting to hear from both sides. The secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, Oleksiy Danilov, recently said: “The only thing that genuinely triggers certain reactions is that Putin, a war criminal with an arrest warrant from The Hague tribunal, is being interviewed instead of being interrogated as he should by an investigator. That is the only thing he should be doing in the remaining days of his life, no matter how many he has left.”
In the Carlson interview, Putin accused Zelensky of having Ukranian Nazis in his administration, which Zelensky has denied. Baier said: “But he also calls you a neo-Nazi, by the way, and says you have Nazis in your administration.” Zelensky brushed off the question and matter-of-factly replied: “I heard about this. [I] Keep searching for them in the administration, but I couldn’t find it. But we’ll keep working. Keep searching.”
Baier asked specifically how Zelensky felt about the stalled funding bill for his war effort and replied: “Will we survive? Of course, but not all of us. And if we understand this surprise, if the world is ready for this, okay, you will see it. But it’s tragedy. It will be tragedy for all of us, not only for Ukraine, not only for Ukrainians, for all Europe.” This sentiment isn’t shared by many in the United States who are tired of throwing money at a proxy war with almost no chance of victory, particularly when there are so many domestic issues that need addressing.
Watch the interview here:
Brett Baier shilling for Zelensky pic.twitter.com/wJ9nhxTAaI
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