Tucker Carlson’s Interview With President Putin Provokes an Uproar — Even Before It Is Aired
In Putin’s Russia, where cold political calculus rules, analysts say the timing of the interview was designed to boost the candidacies of Presidents Putin and Trump.
Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin, the first with a Western reporter since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, is to be posted tomorrow free of charge on Mr. Carlson’s website and on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. Although the content is so far a secret, the interview is already creating an international uproar.
Supporters of Mr. Carlson’s brand of populist isolationism hail it as a blow for freedom of the press. Political analysts hail it as a clever step for Presidents Putin and Trump in their reelection campaigns. Kremlin state TV talking heads put American “hysteria” over the interview on a par with Jane Fonda’s trip to Hanoi in 1972.
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