The Tucker Text: In a newly-revealed text message, which was redacted in the Dominion legal filings, Tucker Carlson made a racist comment and said he found himself briefly rooting for a mob of Trump supporters to kill a person, according to a Tuesday night report from The NYT's Jeremy Peters, Michael Schmidt, and Jim Rutenberg. "A couple of weeks ago, I was watching video of people fighting on the street in Washington," Carlson wrote in the text, per The NYT. "A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living s**t out of him. It was three against one, at least. Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It’s not how white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it."
"Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: this isn’t good for me. I’m becoming something I don’t want to be," Carlson continued, per The NYT. "The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I’m sure I’d hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn’t gloat over his suffering. I should be bothered by it. I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this kid, and would be crushed if he was killed. If I don’t care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?" A spokesperson for Fox declined to comment to me on Tuesday night. Carlson did not respond.
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