Tucker Carlson Asked Hunter Biden to Help His Son Get Into College

[GMDino]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7nnp7/tucker-carlson-hunter-biden-son-college

Quote:A leaked copy of an email exchange between Hunter Biden and Tucker Carlson suggests that the Fox News host once asked the now-president’s son to write a college recommendation letter for his son.

Yes, the same Carlson who spent weeks attacking and obsessing over every detail of the Hunter Biden laptop story, asked for a recommendation letter for his son Buckley, who was trying to get into Georgetown University, Biden’s alma mater. 

“I can't thank you enough for writing that letter to Georgetown on Buckley's behalf,” Carlson wrote in a 2014 email to Biden. “So nice of you. I know it'll help. Hope you're great and we can all get dinner soon.”
Biden responded: “Hey buddy, I need Buckley's CV if you have one handy, thanks.”

Reposting with more redaction: Lin Wood doxxed both Hunter Biden and Tucker Carlson's contact info as of 2014. Yikes. pic.twitter.com/kL8FCGVkFj

— Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) December 3, 2021

 


VICE News could not verify the authenticity of the email exchange, and Carlson and Biden did not immediately respond to requests for comment.


Even though Biden wrote the recommendation letter, Buckley Carlson did not attend Georgetown, but instead studied government and political science at the University of Virginia. He graduated in 2019. 


The previously unreported relationship between Carlson and Biden was revealed by pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood on his Telegram account. Wood has spent the last week engaged in an increasingly bitter war of words with former supporters.


So how did Wood come to have a copy of an email conversation between Tucker Carlson and Hunter Biden from seven years ago? Well, Wood wasn’t the first one to post the screenshot.


It was previously posted on Telegram by David Clements, an election truther who is close to  Wood. Clements, in turn, shared it from a post by a hidden Telegram account that goes simply by the letter “G.”

People have been asking me if this is real, and I have no reason to suspect it's not. Say what you want about Lin Wood's rampage, but he hasn't posted anything fake that I know of so far.

— Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) December 3, 2021

 


“When I sue Tucker Carlson and Fox and take Old Tucker Boy’s sworn testimony upon cross-examination, I will be sure to ask him ALL about his “buddy-buddy” relationship of years with HUNTER BIDEN!!!” Wood wrote on his hugely popular Telegram channel prior to posting the screenshot of the email.


Wood’s scorched-earth campaign, which has led to a civil war within QAnon, was initially triggered by Carlson’s interview with Kyle Rittenhouse, in which the teenager criticized the lawyer, who briefly represented him last year. Rittenhouse said Wood had “taken advantage” of him and was the reason he spent 87 days in jail. He also claimed the $2 million that Wood’s Fight Back group raised for his bail was “for their own benefit.”


The email exchange between Carlson and Biden is all the more surprising given that in April of this year, the Fox News host falsely claimed that the president’s son watches child pornography.

So let me get this straight. Hunters laptop did reveal him trading on his name…But he did so to help his friend Tucker Carlson? You couldn’t make it up.

— Tim Miller (@Timodc) December 3, 2021

 


Carlson’s attacks on Biden ramped up during the 2020 presidential election campaign and reached new levels in October 2020, when the New York Post published leaked documents supposedly from a laptop that the paper claimed once belonged to Biden.


In fact, Carlson was part of a broad Fox News campaign to promote the story: the network devoted over 25 hours of coverage in the space of 9 days after the story broke on October 14.


Carlson’s campaign included an exclusive interview with Tony Bobulinski, a former associate of Hunter’s who claimed Joe Biden is lying about having no involvement in his son’s Chinese business deals—despite the fact that multiple outlets who reviewed the records concluded that the president had no role in his son’s business in China.

Last year, during his attacks on Hunter Biden, Carlson admitted that he knew the president’s son and his wife well.


“I never thought Hunter Biden was a bad person,” he said during one of his nightly broadcasts. “I thought he had demons but in the time I knew him he kept them mostly under control. At some point, he lost control of those demons and the world knows that now. He's now humiliated and alone. Probably too strong to say we feel sorry for Hunter Biden, but the point is pounding on a man, jumping on, and piling on when he's already down is something we don't want to be involved in.”

[BFritz21]

So you're saying that Tucker is wrong or hypocritical because he had no problem with Hunter Biden BEFORE Hunter did all the things that Tucker criticizes him for?!



#thelogicofSteelersfans

[Belsnickel]

This whole "scandal" really is on par with the bullshit Brad usually posts.

[Sociopathicsteelerfan]

(12-06-2021, 01:55 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: This whole "scandal" really is on par with the bullshit Brad usually posts.

You're just now noticing this? 

[masonbengals fan]

The real scandal is yet to be publicly released.

You know the BIG guy & his 10% 

[*Nately120*]

Was it Tucker Carlson who said he had Hunter's elusive laptop with all the damning evidence on it, but he was choosing to no pursue things further?

[jmccracky]

They are all friends, or they've been friends, once upon a time. This isn't shocking.

[Dill]

(12-06-2021, 01:24 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: So you're saying that Tucker is wrong or hypocritical because he had no problem with Hunter Biden BEFORE Hunter did all the things that Tucker criticizes him for?!

It does seem rather hypocritical to use Biden's influence to open college doors for a family member

--and then knock him for trading on his father's influence. 

I confess to some surprise here, as I had no idea that while Tucker was falsely accusing Hunter of having child pornography
on his computer, he was talking about someone he had previously included in his social circle.

That was, after all, one of the things that Carlson criticized him for--i.e., an accusation without proof.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson-baselessly-claims-hunter-biden-has-kiddie-porn-video-2021-4

It's also of interest that this only came out because of an internal war between Trump factions--

Qanon supporters and a lawyer who had jumped onto and steered the Rittenhouse bandwagon for a time. 

So this Wood guy "can't wait" to expose Tucker as a Hunter Biden friend, on the hopes that will tar Tucker in the eyes of 
those for whom any kind of friendship with any Biden at any time is treason.

[hollodero]

(12-07-2021, 01:53 AM)Dill Wrote: It does seem rather hypocritical to use Biden's influence to open college doors for a family member

--and then knock him for trading on his father's influence. 

That's possibly true. Tucker being hypocritical is not breaking news ecaxly though. And to prove his hypocrisy, there might be a million better examples than this one.
For generally, that you once were on good footing with someone (and asked that someone for a favor) you're no longer on good footing with several years later is stuff that happens in life.

[*Nately120*]

(12-07-2021, 08:39 AM)hollodero Wrote: That's possibly true. Tucker being hypocritical is not breaking news ecaxly though. And to prove his hypocrisy, there might be a million better examples than this one.
For generally, that you once were on good footing with someone (and asked that someone for a favor) you're no longer on good footing with several years later is stuff that happens in life.

Yeah but it's a bad look when you go on about what an immense scumbag Some one you considered a pal ended up being.  It makes you look like a dolt who can't read people. 

Tucker's whole marketability is based around being a guy who can analyze situations and people and give his "expert opinion" so ever being on good terms with one of the most loathsome people on the planet should be a bad look. 

But I'll ask again, wasn't Tucker the one who had Hunters incriminating laptop and then chose to drop the story?  If that was him, youd thunk that would cause a stir. 

[hollodero]

(12-07-2021, 10:19 AM)Nately120 Wrote: Yeah but it's a bad look when you go on about what an immense scumbag Some one you considered a pal ended up being.  It makes you look like a dolt who can't read people. 

Sure, I can see that. I just try to weigh this merit against the appearance of looking petty, which, after all, this story kinda does. At least to me.

I feel half-stories like these perpetuate the notion that people play gotcha with folks like Tucker, imho rather helping the "they dig out and throw everyhing at him for they are afraid of his truthtelling" etc narratives. There are so many bad things about Tucker to say, including him being a dolt, that I'd say drive the point home more effectively and more clearly. Quoting him, for example.

[*Nately120*]

(12-07-2021, 12:51 PM)hollodero Wrote: Sure, I can see that. I just try to weigh this merit against the appearance of looking petty, which, after all, this story kinda does. At least to me.

I feel half-stories like these perpetuate the notion that people play gotcha with folks like Tucker, imho rather helping the "they dig out and throw everyhing at him for they are afraid of his truthtelling" etc narratives. There are so many bad things about Tucker to say, including him being a dolt, that I'd say drive the point home more effectively and more clearly. Quoting him, for example.

I hear ya. Its just odd seeing people who laid it on so thick about what a monster Hunter Biden is brush off any sort of friendliness with Tucker. 

I guess after seeing multiple presidents buddying up to Epstein stuff like this doesn't register anymore.  

[hollodero]

(12-07-2021, 12:58 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I hear ya. Its just odd seeing people who laid it on so thick about what a monster Hunter Biden is brush off any sort of friendliness with Tucker. 

I guess after seeing multiple presidents buddying up to Epstein stuff like this doesn't register anymore.  

That might be one thing. I, however, feel that the main issue is your notion that the facts and circumstances lead to a verdict. When it comes to the echo chambers left and right (here of course: right), this is fundamentally untrue. The verdict comes first and determines the perception of all facts or which surmises have to be treated as facts to get to said predetermined verdict. Stories like these (and stories I'd consider way more expressive) never can get through.

[*Nately120*]

(12-07-2021, 01:15 PM)hollodero Wrote: That might be one thing. I, however, feel that the main issue is your notion that the facts and circumstances lead to a verdict. When it comes to the echo chambers left and right (here of course: right), this is fundamentally untrue. The verdict comes first and determines the perception of all facts or which surmises have to be treated as facts to get to said predetermined verdict. Stories like these (and stories I'd consider way more expressive) never can get through.

We are simply here to discuss because nothing gets through to some people.  The voice of the right is a man legally declared to be taken seriously by no one with a functioning brain. 

Tucker is a demigod to many. It's cult behavior but meh, people gotta believe in something.  

[Dill]

(12-07-2021, 08:39 AM)hollodero Wrote: That's possibly true. Tucker being hypocritical is not breaking news ecaxly though. And to prove his hypocrisy, there might be a million better examples than this one.
For generally, that you once were on good footing with someone (and asked that someone for a favor) you're no longer on good footing with several years later is stuff that happens in life.

I am no longer on good footing with one of my relatives, but I don't tell the world that she has child pornography on her computer. 

"Calling out" the other side for "hypocrisy" is one of the primary foci of propagandists, and not generally a goal of serious political analysis.

In this case, I doubt the goal of VICE was to "prove" Tucker was hypocritical. 

Rather, this is more about what is going on inside Trump world, an emerging development, a riff which leads right wing propagandists to turn on one another.  The former Rittenhouse lawyer promises to take Fox down, apparently with the same kind of disinformation and "calling out hypocrisy" that are Fox/Tucker staples. I confess I find this rather interesting, given the ease with which the target audience can be misled by disinformation campaigns. How successful with this be? Like Qanon turning on Flynn? 

If the hypocrisy angle has legs it is because of the vitriol Tucker has poured on Hunter. I was genuinely surprised to hear T had broken bread with the scion of evil for years before then making him the center of a false corruption scandal for political and monetary gain. That Hunter had a drug/sex addiction problem may be reason to personally distance oneself from him, but not publicly lie about him to damage his father.  Most of Tucker's target audience would, nevertheless, cheer on that unethical behavior as service to the greater good--but perhaps not if it is revealed Tucker and Hunter were chums before the chance to bash him for political gain appeared. 

I think Nately is right: it looks like T can't read people--or he can but knowingly cultivated a relationship with socialists, a man whose father was a traitor and out to destroy America. 

[Sociopathicsteelerfan]

(12-07-2021, 05:40 PM)Dill Wrote: I am no longer on good footing with one of my relatives, but I don't tell the world that she has child pornography on her computer. 

Would you if she did?

[GMDino]

Yeah, most of you got it that this is just funny as hell because it only shows that these talking heads are just like the WWE...they get along just fine behind the scenes when they want to but they put on a GREAT show to keep the heat coming and collect that paycheck.

[*Nately120*]

(12-07-2021, 09:19 PM)GMDino Wrote: Yeah, most of you got it that this is just funny as hell because it only shows that these talking heads are just like the WWE...they get along just fine behind the scenes when they want to but they put on a GREAT show to keep the heat coming and collect that paycheck.

Reminds me of that WWF scandal from the 80s where The Iron Shirk and Hacksaw Jim Duggan got busted doing drugs together and wrasslin fans couldn't believe they didn't actually hate each other.  

Also, did Tucker admit to knowing and asking Hunter for favors before?  Seems a little weird he's hide it if it's such a non issue.  

Also was that Tucker who acted confused and denied it when Matt Gaetz talked about bringing one of his totally legal dates to dinner with Tucker and his wife?  Something about glass houses comes to mind, but I'd be an unreasonable person to take these characters at their word. 

[Dill]

(12-07-2021, 07:55 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Would you if she did?

Might depend on what I found or knew.

Main point is, I wouldn't make claims that cannot be secured with evidence.

[Dill]

(12-07-2021, 09:19 PM)GMDino Wrote: Yeah, most of you got it that this is just funny as hell because it only shows that these talking heads are just like the WWE...they get along just fine behind the scenes when they want to but they put on a GREAT show to keep the heat coming and collect that paycheck.

Not sure that they do all get along behind the scenes. I think some try to be civil with one another. 

Rachel Maddow had a good relationship with Greta van Sustern. 

But I'd really be surprised to hear that she, Joy Reid and Lawrence O'Donnell enjoyed summer picnics and swims in
the park with Rush, Hannity, and Mark Levin and their families.