Racist text ‘helped spur Fox News to oust star host Tucker Carlson’

Tucker Carlson (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Text messages that helped lead Fox News to part ways with star host Tucker Carlson included one in which he wrote that Trump supporters beating a protester was “not how white men fight”, according to The New York Times.

The text was one of a trove of messages from Carlson and other Fox News hosts uncovered in a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems against the network for airing false allegations that the company’s machines were used to steal the 2020 election from former president Donald Trump.