Tucker Carlson says he's backing Trump in 2024
Former Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson knows who he'll be supporting in the 2024 presidential election.
"I became an active Trump supporter when they raided Mar-A-Lago last summer," Carlson said on an episode of Roseanne Barr's podcast this week. "That can't stand. And I agree with Trump on a lot, but even if I disagreed with Trump on a lot, I'd still be a Trump supporter, because you cannot allow that."
Carlson was pulled off the air by Fox earlier this year, shortly after the company agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems hundreds of millions of dollars to settle claims of defamation out of court.
Former President Trump's false claims of a stolen election were central to Dominion's case against Fox.
As part of the litigation, a trove of internal communications from top hosts at Fox, including Carlson, was unearthed, showing them bashing Trump and dismissing his claims about the election.
"I hate him passionately," Carlson wrote of Trump to a Fox colleague in one now widely publicized message.
The search of Trump's home in Florida as part of a federal investigation into his handling of classified documents in the summer of 2022 was a tipping point for Carlson, he said.
"It's bigger than Trump, it's bigger than Biden. It's, do you want to live in a free country with a functioning justice system," Carlson added. "So I'm voting for Trump, and if they convict him, I will send him the max donations and I will lead protests."