Washington — Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson made an inflammatory, racist comment in a text message to a producer about a video that showed a group of "Trump guys" attacking "an Antifa kid," writing in the message that "it's not how white men fight," according to the New York Times.
The message, sent on Jan. 7, 2021, is among the communications included in redacted court filings that were part of Dominion Voting Systems' now-settled defamation case against Fox News. The text from Carlson remains shielded from the public, but the New York Times reported Tuesday that the contents of the message "were disclosed in interviews with several people close to the defamation lawsuit against Fox."
Neither Fox News nor an attorney for Carlson immediately returned a request for comment.
According to the Times, Carlson wrote in the message: "A couple of weeks ago, I was watching video of people fighting on the street in Washington. A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living s**t out of him. It was three against one, at least. Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It's not how white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they'd hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it."
He continued: "Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: this isn't good for me. I'm becoming something I don't want to be. The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise...
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