It was already going to be massively entertaining to watch Fox News wage legal war on Tucker Carlson, but now add to the mix that Carlson’s attorney is former SF GOP chair Harmeet Dhillon, who’s facing her own set of financial impropriety allegations.
We still don’t know entirely why Fox News fired Tucker Carlson, their highest-rated host, in late April. (The New York Times links it with “the discovery of one particularly incendiary text from Mr. Carlson,” which was the “It’s not how white men fight" text, but that story may just be cover for some other Fox News palace intrigue.) Yet we do know that the fired Carlson announced he’d be doing a show on Elon Musk's Twitter, and that show started last week with two separate episodes of ten minutes or so, prompting a report from Axios that Fox News accused Carlson of breaching his contract.
Fox News sent Tucker Carlson a "cease-and-desist" letter over his new Twitter series, Axios reported Monday, amid reports of a contract battle between the conservative network and its former prime-time host. https://t.co/Mo2rUIEogU
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 13, 2023
Well, that has escalated. Axios is now reporting that Fox News has sent Carlson a cease-and-desist letter demanding he stop doing that Twitter show. As Axios explains, “Fox is continuing to pay Carlson, and maintains that his contract keeps his content exclusive to Fox through Dec. 31, 2024.”
But the Associated Press has an additional interesting detail that one of...
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