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applegrove

(118,830 posts)
Wed Jul 7, 2021, 05:50 PM Jul 2021

Tucker Carlson Tried to Set Up Interview with Putin

Tucker Carlson Tried to Set Up Interview with Putin

July 7, 2021 at 5:41 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 6 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/07/07/tucker-carlson-tried-to-set-up-interview-with-putin/

"SNIP.....

“Tucker Carlson was talking to U.S.-based Kremlin intermediaries about setting up an interview with Vladimir Putin shortly before the Fox News host accused the National Security Agency of spying on him,” Axios reports.

“Sources said U.S. government officials learned about Carlson’s efforts to secure the Putin interview. Carlson learned that the government was aware of his outreach — and that’s the basis of his extraordinary accusation, followed by a rare public denial by the NSA that he had been targeted.”

.....SNIP"

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applegrove

(118,830 posts)
1. Now Tucker has outed that US based Kremlin intermediaries are being
Wed Jul 7, 2021, 05:52 PM
Jul 2021

followed by the NSA. I'm sure the intermediaries knew but bonehead americans looking to spy may not have.

gohuskies

(1,157 posts)
2. Hmmm wonder who these 'intermediaries' are...
Wed Jul 7, 2021, 05:56 PM
Jul 2021

Perhaps the names Flynn, Bannon, Stone, Sessions, Moron Johnson and Rohrabacher are on that illustrious list.

TheRealNorth

(9,500 posts)
3. Back in the 80's, my old man once drank too much and tried to call Gorbachev
Wed Jul 7, 2021, 06:17 PM
Jul 2021

That got the attention of men in black suits. What makes Tucker think he is so special?

applegrove

(118,830 posts)
4. Right. Though you think going through a press office in Moscow would
Wed Jul 7, 2021, 06:27 PM
Jul 2021

be the logical route. You know the way CNN, NBC, MSNBC, CBS and ABC would do it.

kskiska

(27,048 posts)
7. And to think the Rosenbergs were electrocuted
Wed Jul 7, 2021, 07:25 PM
Jul 2021

for their contacts with Russian agents in peacetime. Now we have an entire political party in cahoots with Russians.

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