Tucker Carlson raising money to launch new Fox News competitor: report

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is reportedly building up a war chest with the aim of launching a media company that will compete with his one-time employer.

According to a report from Puck News' Dylan Byers, Carlson "is raising capital to launch a new company that may yet prove more influential" than his current shtick of posting videos on Elon Musk's Twitter platform.

Byers says that Carlson is expected to get help in this venture not only from "an incongruous number of ultra wealthy conservative media investors" but also from several longtime staffers on his old show that were essentially axed by Fox News this week.

Carlson was abruptly fired by Fox News earlier this year in the wake of the network's massive $787 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems over false claims the network aired in the wake of the 2020 election.

During the discovery process, Dominion's lawyers uncovered numerous embarrassing messages sent by Carlson, including one in which he acknowledged that he "hated" former President Donald Trump "passionately" despite the fact that he would sing Trump's praises to his viewers on his show on a nightly basis.

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