Independent news reporter Tucker Carlson is reportedly in negotiations to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The news was first revealed on social media on Sunday.
However, Russia Today (RT), the pro-Putin state-owned media outlet, also confirmed the reports early Monday morning.
“Former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson has been seeking an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin,” RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan said on Sunday.
“[Carlson] is strongly requesting an interview with Vladimir Putin,” Simonyan said on a talk show aired by Rossiya-1 TV channel.
“It would be great if someone listens and notifies the president about this.”
Carlson revealed during an interview that he has been in talks with Putin’s people about an interview.
However, Putin rarely gives one-on-one interviews to foreign media.
His last lengthy conversation with a Western journalist was an interview with CNBC anchor Hadley Gamble.
He spoke with Gamble on the sidelines of the Russian Energy Week forum in Moscow in October 2021.
The popular account Kanekoa The Great first broke the news of Carlson’s potential interview with Putin on Twitter/X.
“JUST IN — Tucker Carlson is reportedly in discussions to interview Vladimir Putin, as reported by RT,” the tweet said alongside a clip from the Full Send Podcast.
“Notably, the NSA spied on Tucker Carlson to prevent a pre-war interview with Putin, potentially stopping the American public from gaining insight into Putin’s perspective before the US-Russia proxy war in Ukraine…
“…Shouldn’t Western democracies allow citizens to form their own judgments from the available information?”
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JUST IN — Tucker Carlson is reportedly in discussions to interview Vladimir Putin, as reported by RT.
Notably, the NSA spied on Tucker Carlson to prevent a pre-war interview with Putin, potentially stopping the American public from gaining insight into Putin's perspective before… pic.twitter.com/2cRp9useaG
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) August 27, 2023
The news has triggered a furious backlash from the Left, however.
Some even accused Carlson of being a “traitor” for even considering such an interview.
Others claim Carlson is “Putin’s puppet.”
However, most applauded Carlson’s brave attempt to get Putin’s perspective on the Russia/Ukraine conflict.
If the interview were to materialize, it would undoubtedly pull a huge audience.
Carlson’s interview with President Donald Trump, which was broadcast on Twitter/X last Wednesday, has now been viewed over 260 million times.
