In what could be a sign of major shift, Fox News host Tucker Carlson has offered a rare and vehement condemnation of Donald Trump, saying that the phone call with the Ukrainian president where Trump pressed for an investigation into Joe Biden was improper.
Carlson has been one of Trump’s fiercest defenders, even among the Trump-friendly on-air personalities at Fox News. Carlson regularly echoed Trump’s statements that the Russian investigation was a witch hunt and has picked up the president’s attacks on political enemies, but now appears to have split with the president on Ukraine.
Carlson and Daily Caller co-founder Neil Patel wrote a column for the news outlet saying there is no way to defend Trump regarding his actions with the Ukrainian president, saying it was a corrupt action.