US Tucker Carlson turns on Putin after Alexei Navalny's death in jail: 'It's horrifying, barbaric and awful - no decent person would defend it'

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Tucker Carlson turns on Putin after Alexei Navalny's death in jail: 'It's horrifying, barbaric and awful - no decent person would defend it'​

Tucker Carlson has turned on Vladimir Putin in the wake of the shocking death of Alexei Navalny, just days after releasing a softball interview with the Russian president and a series of 'tourism board style' videos about the country's clean train stations and cheap groceries.

In an exclusive statement to DailyMail.com, Carlson said: 'It's horrifying what happened to Navalny. The whole thing is barbaric and awful. No decent person would defend it.'

The former Fox News host told DailyMail.com that he was on a plane traveling from Dubai when Navalny's death was announced.

'I didn't even know it happened till I saw the Daily Mail story,' Carlson explained.

The conservative pundit has faced backlash over his bizarre sit-down with Putin last week after critics say he failed to challenge the Russian president.

When quizzed about the limitations of his interview at the World Government Summit on Monday, days before Navalny's tragic death, Carlson made the comment: 'every leader kills people, leadership requires killing people.'

He told DailyMail.com Friday: 'It had zero to do with Navalny. I wasn’t referring to him, which is obvious in context, and I certainly wasn’t making excuses for killing people. I’m totally opposed to killing as I said.'

'I didn't talk about the things that every other American media outlet talks about because those are covered,' he told Egyptian journalist Emad El Din Adeeb.

'I have spent my life speaking to people who run countries, in various countries, and have concluded the following: That every leader kills people, including my leader.

'Every leader kills people, some kill more than others. Leadership requires killing people, sorry. That's why I wouldn't want to be a leader.'

Russian news outlets announced Navalny's death on Friday morning, citing the Siberian prison service where he was serving a nineteen-year sentence for 'extremism', sparking fury across the globe.

'On February 16, 2024, in correctional colony No. 3, convict Navalny A.A. felt unwell after a walk, almost immediately losing consciousness,' said a statement from prison officials.

'Emergency doctors confirmed the death of the convict,' it added.

Global leaders, including the Latvian president, have laid blame for Navalny's death at Putin's feet.

During his interview with Putin, Carlson also heaped praise on Russia throughout, calling Moscow 'so much nicer than any city in my country.'

'I had no idea. It is so much cleaner, and safer and prettier, aesthetically. Its architecture, food, and services than in any city in the United States. And this is not ideological' he effused.

In another bizarre video Carlson praised Russia for its low grocery store prices and fresh produce.

The media firebrand wheeled a grocery cart around a Russian superstore while marveling at the stock as he continued his Putin PR tour earlier this week.

In a video uploaded to his social media accounts Carlson 54, exclaims, 'Look at that!' while sniffing a loaf of bread as jovial music plays.

Carlson reaches the checkout and notices the equivalent $400 price-tag for a weeks-worth of groceries for him and his team.

The former presenter says the revelation moved him from feeling 'amused to legitimately angry' that his home country apparently charges much more for basics like food.

The video drew widespread ridicule from people online, as many pointed out the disparity between the average wage in Russia - which is the equivalent of $9,072 - or 6.5 times less than the average US salary of $59,428.

Navalny was last seen via video link during a court hearing on Thursday.

Dressed in black prison uniform, he appeared to be in good spirits - his trademark humor back on show.

'Your Honor, I will send you my personal account number so that you can use your huge salary as a federal judge to 'warm up' my personal account, because I am running out of money,' he said.

Navalny's mother Lyudmila said she had seen her son in the prison colony on Monday. At the time, she said: 'He was alive, healthy, cheerful.'

Navalny's spokesperson said on the X social media platform that she was unable to confirm his death. Kira Yarmysh said that Navalny's lawyer was travelling to the site of the prison where he had been serving his sentence.

Leonid Volkov, a Navalny aide, said: 'The Federal Penitentiary Service in the Yamalo-Nenets District is disseminating news about the death of Alexei Navalny in IK-3.

'We don't have any confirmation of this yet. Alexey's lawyer is now flying to Kharp. As soon as we have any information, we will report it.'

 

[Chickin BBQ]

MKAD? Reference to the road in Moscow?

Moscowniggers are notorious for being completely delusional about what life is actually like in the rest of the country in all respects and can all burn in their circle of hell (MKAD). Yes.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Remember that leftist media think that there are two kinds of "real" interviews:

A fawning ballwashing where you extol the virtues of your subject and shill their book
A third degree interrogation where you call your subject out for wrongthink and badger them into a forced public apology

The type should depend on the subject's position in the oppression stack and whether they're on the right side of history.

 

[007Eleven]

First Coach Redpill now this guy, Tucker doesn't know who he can trust. Is it all fake and gay?

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

In an exclusive statement to DailyMail.com, Carlson said: 'It's horrifying what happened to Navalny. The whole thing is barbaric and awful. No decent person would defend it.'

He told DailyMail.com Friday: 'It had zero to do with Navalny. I wasn’t referring to him, which is obvious in context, and I certainly wasn’t making excuses for killing people. I’m totally opposed to killing as I said.'

'I have spent my life speaking to people who run countries, in various countries, and have concluded the following: That every leader kills people, including my leader.

'Every leader kills people, some kill more than others. Leadership requires killing people, sorry. That's why I wouldn't want to be a leader.'

Somehow, Tucker sounds far more compassionate and decent with these few quotes when compared to todays journalists that have to act like activists and gaslight their own audience for not sticking to the Narrative™

I also don’t think Tucker is defending Putin especially with that two hour plus interview he did with him, but the next time people like this defend the fact that Tucker is a propagandist for the Russian government, just remember:



Our American journalism should not be throwing stones in glass houses. This almost looks like they are putting out a hit job on a man who even admitted that the FBI monitored Tucker’s calls and text messages for admitting that the U.S. Capitol protest was not an “insurrection” while also calling out the fact that Ukraine is not our sworn ally that we need to sell billions of dollars worth defending as we don’t defend America’s own border and issues with crime and homelessness.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

It would be a bad PR move for him if he did. He’s already getting enough heat for being amazed at people putting coins in grocery carts in Russia, despite Aldi being a thing in the US.

Aldi: The foreign grocery chain attempting to tame American savages with German chocolate while forcing them to put their carts back.

 

[Odd Opossum]

The grocery store video was weird. He goes around acting like it's all the most awesome stuff imaginable and wraps it up by talking of how Americans would basically be radicalized against their government if they saw how well Russians live in comparison to them.

It honestly sounds similar to those weird pro-China youtubers that act like China is vastly superior to the west.


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He's pandering to his support base of out of touch boomers and loser 20-somethings who want to believe there's some trad country out there for them to flee to.

 

[dustbuster]

>daily mail

1 million vatnigger rubles says Tucker immediately drew the comparison between Navalny and Trump/J6 and this organ of UK propaganda deliberately omitted it.

What if Navalny really did have a heart attack?

Negligence by those with a duty of care in the face of urgent medical need is still murder, and the vast majority of heart attacks are slow moving enough that old amerifats can wait for hours with one in the ER, eventually get medication, and live with a full recovery.

The grocery store video was weird. He goes around acting like it's all the most awesome stuff imaginable and wraps it up by talking of how Americans would basically be radicalized against their government if they saw how well Russians live in comparison to them.

It honestly sounds similar to those weird pro-China youtubers that act like China is vastly superior to the west.


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Maslow's hieriarchy of needs applies.
Your luxuries don't matter if the basics of your life like safety and food security aren't met.
In this case Tucker is right, and the chinese apologists are right: In the USA, when a crime happens, the state targets the victims and actively enables the criminals, For all their faults, Both the russian and chinese regimes do NOT do that.

"But russia and china persecute innocents and political dissidents"

Me:
>Laughs in Trump and J6-ers.

 

[LeChampion1992]

This is how I recall the order of events.

Tucker does interview with Putin on Musk platform X. They even talk about Musk positively, because he is the third man in the room, like a ghost.
Putin unveils plans for space warfare which puts starlink that Musk has deployed for ukraine in Russia's crosshairs.
Tucker suddenly finds a reason to disavow Putin.
Tucker puts a lot of trump voting people that were nominally aligned slightly in favor of russia over ukraine and moves them against russia.

Maybe Putin was right and Tucker is CIA after all. Just like Musk "oh twitter was involved with secret agencies, look at these twitter files" as if he wouldn't readily collaborste with them too.

I believe the populist movements are still backed by the CIA and etc... in some form. I think they're trying to get the right back into the fold and you're going to need trump for that.

 

[JambledUpWords]

Maslow's hieriarchy of needs applies.
Your luxuries don't matter if the basics of your life like safety and food security aren't met.
In this case Tucker is right, and the chinese apologists are right: In the USA, when a crime happens, the state targets the victims and actively enables the criminals, For all their faults, Both the russian and chinese regimes do NOT do that.

"But russia and china persecute innocents and political dissidents"

Me:
>Laughs in Trump and J6-ers.

So it’s okay, so long as it’s not the US doing it? It’s easier to just say it’s bad all around.

 

[dustbuster]

So it’s okay, so long as it’s not the US doing it?

The "so" tell for strawmanning.

Ask people which they'd prefer:
A. A society that locks up criminals and harshly punishes them, and locks up political dissidents.
B. A society that relentlessly persecutes VICTIMS of crime while incentivizing criminality, and ALSO locks up political dissidents.

They will choose A every time.

This is not hard, at all.

The USA is less just than Russia, period.

Say her name: Ashili Babbitt.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

He works in NY and DC primarily. Being in a grocery store with no homeless people/ drug addicts screaming or shitting on the floor would probably be a revelatory experience for someone stuck in those places.

Doesn't he go grocery shopping when he is at his summer cabin (McMansion) in Maine? Or does the help do his groceries?

 

[pwnest injun]

The international community needs to investigate and figure out how Navalny somehow got ahold of the Moderna vaccine while in solitary confinement.

 

[make_it_so]

Right, I noticed that as well. It speaks of how their minds operate. They think that because I'm talk with someone and I behave in a civil manner, it means I endorse them and support their ideas.

I said this in another thread, but it's worth repeating: Putin can be both a dictator who abuses power and someone who tries that their main city looks clean and liveable. And you can say one is wrong while the other one is good, it doesn't make you a hypocrite.

It's what happens when an entire generation grows up online and who's only source of media was fucking capeshit movies.

 

[WhiskeyJack]

Gonzalo Lira shrugs with indifference.

 

[High Level Rad Waste]

It honestly sounds similar to those weird pro-China youtubers that act like China is vastly superior to the west.

FWIW, this is the "international" section at my local grocery store.

 

[Night Crawler]

I don't know why people are acting like this is surprising. Putin is a Boomer and a Soviet LARPer. This is just what he does at this point. It's like acting surprised that Bowser stole the princess in a Mario game. Bowser stole Mario's bitch and Putin killed some guy who was a political threat. What's new?

It's just more Russian sadness.

 

[MrJokerRager]

The "so" tell for strawmanning.

Ask people which they'd prefer:
A. A society that locks up criminals and harshly punishes them, and locks up political dissidents.
B. A society that relentlessly persecutes VICTIMS of crime while incentivizing criminality, and ALSO locks up political dissidents.

They will choose A every time.

This is not hard, at all.

The USA is less just than Russia, period.

Say her name: Ashili Babbitt.

Ashili Babbitt.

Pat Tilman.

Death to the Democratic Party and their simps.

 

[SBG]

It's what happens when an entire generation grows up online and who's only source of media was fucking capeshit movies.

Tucker was honestly asked very frankly about political assassinations and Navalny, then speaks as though leaders assassinating people is ordinary and necessary (they weren't talking about wars or something). Then soon after you have Navalny drop dead in what is assumed to be an assassination. I'm not sure it's that weird to read his comments as him being ok with the idea of Putin assassinating people. Though I imagine he was just feeling like he was making a big brained philosophical point that you can't complain about any foreign world leaders.

I'm a bit surprised the Daily Mail didn't include the questions Tucker was answering since the context of his comments kinda makes it sound worse.

ADEEB: You should challenge in the roles of an interview, and you’re a master in your business. It’s not for me to give you a lecture about that, but you should challenge some ideas. For instance, you didn’t talk about freedom of speech in Russia, you did not talk about Navalny, about assassinations, about restrictions on opposition in the coming elections.

CARLSON: I didn’t talk about the things that every other American media outlet talks about.

ADEEB: Why, yes? This is my question.

CARLSON: Because those are covered and because I have spent my life talking to people who run countries in various countries and have concluded the following. That every leader kills people, including my leader. Every leader kills people, some kill more than others. Leadership requires killing people, sorry, that’s why I wouldn’t want to be a leader. That press restriction is universal in the United States, I know because I’ve lived it. Ask my former – I’ve had a lot of jobs. And I’ve done this for 34 years and I know how it works and there’s more censorship in Russia than there is in the United States but there is a great deal in the United States. And so at a certain point, it’s like people can decide whether they think, what countries they think are better, what systems they think are better. I just want to know what he thinks, that was the whole point.

 

[Vesperus]

Didn't one of the Jan 6th. protesters just die in jail awaiting trial?

Me thinks the lady doth protest too much.

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

What's the editorial bent of the Daily Mail?

Their framing here seems very journoscum pro-Ukraine.

But a few years back, they were one of the few MSM outlets who gave a fair shake to some of the lesser Canadian trucker stories.