Tucker Carlson last week denied any knowledge of the producer suing him over allegations of a toxic and misogynist workplace, but text messages obtained by Rolling Stone demonstrate the two corresponded frequently while she worked on his show.
“I know nothing about her. I never met her,” Carlson told NPR last week of Abby Grossberg, the former senior producer on Tucker Carlson Tonight who filed the legal complaint and who worked on Carlson’s show for six months.
The text messages, however, reveal the two frequently corresponded on both group text threads and in one-on-one messages. In the messages, Carlson gave directives on guests to book and set the tone for the day’s programming.
In one example reviewed by Rolling Stone, Grossberg and Carlson communicate repeatedly about an attempt to bring then-aspiring House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (D-Calif.) onto the show.
“No one else has stepped forward to challenge McCarthy. He’s still the only option. I keep hearing from people who know him that this process has improved him. I want to give him a chance to make the case that it has. Feel free to screenshot this text for his office,” Carlson texted Grossberg on Jan. 5, 2023.
“They apparently just had a ‘really good talk’ with McCarthy’s team about us,” Grossberg wrote Carlson on the same day. He responded, “I heard. Hope it works.”
In another exchange, Carlson asks Grossberg whether Mike Pompeo was joining the show the following day.
“Do we have Pompeo for tomorrow?” Carlson wrote...
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