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The Independent reports:
Tucker Carlson has once again invited criticism for uploading a two-and-a-half-hour long interview with rape and sex trafficking accused Andrew Tate on Twitter.
The former Fox News host, who now uploads a new series he calls Tucker on Twitter, sat down with the controversial social media influencer, who was arrested and charged with rape, human trafficking and leading an organised crime group to sexually exploit women in Romania.
The extensive interview has raked in millions of views hours after it was uploaded. Carlson, who previously defended Mr Tate and called his arrest a “human rights violation”, has sparked outrage by giving a platform to the controversial influencer without proper scrutiny or contextualisation.
Mediaite reports:
While the interview received promotion and praise from figures as varied as billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk and former New York City Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik, it also received backlash from conservative commentators and Carlson’s viewers alike.
“Tate is charged in Romania with rape, human trafficking, and forming an organised crime group to sexually exploit women. Are you an Andrew Tate right winger or a Sound of Freedom right winger. You can’t really be both,” tweeted conservative commentator Erick Erickson, in reference to Sound of Freedom — a movie about sex trafficking which was heavily promoted by conservatives on social media this month.
“Tucker devotes his first lengthy interview to a sex trafficking woman abusing fraud,” reacted Fox News contributor and Spectator editor Ben Domenech. “Not going to waste 2.5 hours of my life on these two, can someone tell me if Tucker asked Tate his opinion of Sound of Freedom.”
The Indy 100 reports:
What happens when you put two of the world’s most outspoken commentators together? Two-and-a-half hours of self-congratulation, tedious repetition and outright lies, it transpires. The former Fox News poster boy asked the self-styled “top G” to explain the accusations made against him. Tate responded by saying he’d been charged with “convincing” women to get TikTok.
“I’m charged with being the head of an organised criminal group, which is in charge of recruiting girls to make TikTok videos, to steal the money from the TikTok views,” he told his sympathetic interviewer. “So, just to be clear, you are not accused of pandering, of pimping, of forcing women to have sex with anybody?” Carlson then asked.
Tate and his brother Tristan, 34, are charged with some of the most serious crimes imaginable. Last month, Tate was served with legal papers by lawyers representing four of his alleged victims who have accused him of rape and sexual assault.
Interesting interview with @Cobratate https://t.co/Ftc32tYKfT
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 11, 2023
Two and a half hours defending & singing the praises of an accused rapist and human trafficker. So brave. https://t.co/Pg89NNzWQv
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) July 11, 2023
Elon and Tucker have created a man-o-sphere bubble that is obsessed with masculinity through the lens of “dick measuring,” “testicle tanning” and, uh, “cuckdom.”
They have abdicated power and marginalized themselves by constantly fixating on weird psychosexual ideas.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) July 12, 2023