{"id":53141,"date":"2022-06-04T12:02:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T19:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=53141"},"modified":"2023-03-17T15:30:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T22:30:54","slug":"so-it-wasnt-a-hoax-after-all-tucker-carlson-admits-that-russia-got-trump-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=53141","title":{"rendered":"So It Wasn&#8217;t a Hoax After All: Tucker Carlson Admits that Russia Got Trump Elected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past five years Donald Trump and his Ministry of Propaganda (aka Fox News) have been whining petulantly about what they refer to as the <em>&#8220;Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax.&#8221;<\/em> It has been a well coordinated effort to refute the documented collusion between Trump and Russia to advance his campaign for president in both 2016 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=So It Wasn't a Hoax After All: Tucker Carlson Admits that Russia Got Trump Elected%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=53141\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-carlson-putin-alone.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News, Tucker Carlson\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52196\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Friday the crusade by Fox News to absolve Trump of any liability for colluding with Russia to undermine American democracy hit a snag. Fox&#8217;s Senior Trump-fluffer, Tucker Carlson, made a surprising admission during a segment in which he intended to smear President Biden&#8217;s record on the economy in general, and gas prices in particular. Carlson embarked on a series of flagrant lies saying that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The White House is doing all it can to keep fuel prices high. Biden has just pushed the EU to stop buying Russian oil. It\u2019s payback for getting Trump elected. But the effect is to guarantee higher prices on the international oil market. That means higher prices for you. So this is not an accident. They&#8217;re doing it on purpose. This is the &#8220;Green New Deal&#8221; they couldn&#8217;t get through Congress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tucker: Biden has just pushed the EU to stop buying Russian oil. It\u2019s payback for getting Trump elected. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kKTN1zkBWG\">pic.twitter.com\/kKTN1zkBWG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1532878297750642688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>First of all, the entire free world has been shunning Russian oil in response to Vladimir Putin&#8217;s brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. That isn&#8217;t Biden&#8217;s fault. It&#8217;s Putin&#8217;s. And if Biden has supported that effort to stop funding Russia&#8217;s aggression, then he should be commended for taking the principled and moral position.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52232\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Biden Brilliantly Debunks the Lies By Trump and Fox News About Energy Production in America<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More to the point, Carlson&#8217;s statement that <em>&#8220;It\u2019s payback for getting Trump elected,&#8221;<\/em> is an explicit admission that the so-called <em>&#8220;Russia Hoax&#8221;<\/em> was not a hoax after all. Carlson is finally conceding that Russia deliberately interfered in American politics on Trump&#8217;s behalf.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is something that every well informed American already knew. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38473\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump himself spoke of it during the infamous Helsinki Summit<\/a><\/strong>. Even Putin said so when asked &#8220;<em>did you direct any of your officials to help&#8221;<\/em> Trump? With Trump standing next him he replied, <em>&#8220;Yes, I did.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more,  a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ap-top-news-international-news-elections-politics-campaigns-5e833a62e9492f6a66624b7920cc846a\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bipartisan report<\/a><\/strong> from the GOP-led Senate Intelligence Committee found that <em>&#8220;The Trump campaign\u2019s interactions with Russian intelligence services during the 2016 presidential election posed a \u201cgrave\u201d counterintelligence threat [and] detailed how associates of Donald Trump had regular contact with Russians and expected to benefit from the Kremlin\u2019s help.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That is, by definition, collusion. And it&#8217;s also what the Mueller Report concluded, and was testified to by Robert Mueller before Congress. More details on this were documented in the studiously researched book &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1538728753?ref=exp_newscorpse_dp_vv_d\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin\u2019s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump<\/a><\/strong>,&#8221; by Michael Isikoff and David Corn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42279\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Exoneration? Collusion? Obstruction? Trump\u2019s Fate is Sealed By 3 Brief Exchanges with Mueller<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As for Carlson&#8217;s wholly dishonest assertions regarding the high price of gas, he is unjustifiably blaming Biden for a problem that is occurring worldwide. No president has the ability to control the price of oil. It&#8217;s an international commodity. However, if the Biden administration were <em>&#8220;doing all it can to keep fuel prices high,&#8221;<\/em> would he have ordered the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/articles\/doe-announces-additional-notice-sale-crude-oil-strategic-petroleum-reserve\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">release of 90 million barrels<\/a><\/strong> from the Strategic Oil Reserve? Would he be promoting the expansion of renewable energy (which Carlson also took a shot at in his rant)? Would he have supported the <em>&#8220;Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act&#8221;<\/em> that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/house-gas-price-gouging-bill\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">just passed<\/a><\/strong> in the House of Representatives?<\/p>\n<p>If Carlson is looking for someone to blame for the continuing high gas prices, he might want to take note that every single Republican in the House voted against the bill to stop greedy oil companies, who are currently raking in record profits, from gouging the American people. And it&#8217;s also the Republicans who are opposed to alternative fuels.<\/p>\n<p>So the GOP is happy to allow oil companies to exploit struggling Americans. Just as they were happy to allow Trump to collude with Russia. And Tucker Carlson &#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52128\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the perversely infatuated Putin puppet<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; is likewise happy to cover for them when they do it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">articles from my website<\/a><\/strong>, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past five years Donald Trump and his Ministry of Propaganda (aka Fox News) have been whining petulantly about what they refer to as the &#8220;Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax.&#8221; It has been a well coordinated effort to refute the documented collusion between Trump and Russia to advance his campaign for president in both 2016 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[219,1,684,1200,8,16],"tags":[324,554,33,377,1211,25,1072],"class_list":["post-53141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-big-oil","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-russia","tag-tucker-carlson","tag-vladimir-putin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-carlson-putin-alone.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-dP7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56537,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56537","url_meta":{"origin":53141,"position":0},"title":"Should ICC&#8217;s War Crimes Arrest Warrant for Putin Include His American PR Flack, Tucker Carlson?","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/17\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The Associated Press is reporting that \"The International Criminal Court said Friday that it has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes.\" The ICC cites Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine and the tactics he has employed that include targeting civilians, torture, abducting children, and other\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fox News, Vladimir Putin, Tucker Carlson","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-putin-carlson-puppet.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-putin-carlson-puppet.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-putin-carlson-puppet.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":57222,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57222","url_meta":{"origin":53141,"position":1},"title":"Where is Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson and Putin&#8217;s Puppets in the US Regarding the Russian Coup?","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/24\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Nearly a year and a half ago, Russia invaded its peaceful neighbor, Ukraine, in a wholly unprovoked act of imperialistic aggression. 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