Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson told him he would be to pay $1 million for an interview.
Carlson made the remarks to Glen Beck while discussing his interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“So, I’m over in Moscow waiting to do this interview. It gets out that we’re doing it, and I’m immediately denounced by this guy called Boris Johnson, who was for a short time the prime minister of Great Britain,” said Carlson.
“And Boris Johnson calls me a tool of the Kremlin or something. And I’m thinking, ‘His name is not actually Boris,’ as I’m sure you know.”
“His name is Alex Johnson. He called himself Boris in high school,” he added.
“So, the guy who calls himself Boris is accusing me of being [a tool of the Kremlin],” he laughed.
“So, I was annoyed, and so I put in a request for an interview as I have many times because he’s constantly denouncing me as a tool of the Kremlin. He says no,” Carlson continued.
Carlson said he reached out to people who know Johnson for an interview.
“Finally, one of his advisors gets back to me and says, ‘He will talk to you, but it’s going to cost you a million dollars.’ He wants a million dollars,” Carlson said.
“What?!” Beck responded.
“In U.S. dollars, gold or bitcoin. No, this just happened yesterday or two days ago,” Carlson said.
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Tucker: "Boris Johnson calls me a tool of the Kremlin or something. So I put in a request for an interview with Boris Johnson. Finally one of his advisors gets back to me and says he will talk to you but it's going to cost you a million dollars. He wants a million dollars." pic.twitter.com/Y7qADbx2H4
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He went on to accuse Johnson of being responsible for the deaths in the Ukraine-Russia war because of a report that he intervened against a peace offer by Russia, something Johnson has vehemently denied.
“This is, by the way, the guy who single-handedly, at the request of the U.S. government, stopped the peace deal in Ukraine a year and a half ago, and is, I think, for that reason, responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands people. He won’t explain any of that to me in an interview until I pay him a million dollars,” Carlson said.
Tucker went on to compare Johnson to Putin.
“Putin didn’t ask for a million dollars! So, you’re telling me that Boris Johnson is a lot sleazier, a lot lower than Vladimir Putin! Which is true! So this whole thing is a freaking shakedown!” he exclaimed.
“This is a money laundering operation,” Carlson continued.
“A lot of the people involved in it are taking money from it. And if you’re making money off of war, you can deal with God on that because that’s really immoral — like, that’s actually really really wrong. And a lot of people are, including Boris Johnson.”
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