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.'

 

[Alabama Gamer]

Interesting that Navalny's death happens at the same time his wife was at the Munich security conference rubbing shoulders with prominent Western politicians and slated to give a speech. All of them got to very publicly console her in front of hundreds of cameras.

 

[SIMIΔN]

What's the editorial bent of the Daily Mail?

Establishment right leaning but a whore for eyeballs.

Interesting that Navalny's death happens at the same time his wife was at the Munich security conference rubbing shoulders with prominent Western politicians and slated to give a speech. All of them got to very publicly console her in front of hundreds of cameras.

Maybe Tucker had a glowie assassin in his entourage after all.

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.

They are closer than you think. The CCP used triads to attack the protesters in Hong Kong, 'Our democracy' uses Antifa to attack peaceful protests.

 

[FedPostalService]

I really wish you lot would, in Minecraft, start hanging these retarded Russophiles for treason.

You can make these points without Putin’s dick in your mouth.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

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's comments here seem pretty tame unless I missed something. If you read Daily Mail, you need to read past the headline because they will misrepresent like the tabloid they are.

As for the space warfare, it was unveiled not by Putin but by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner, who is a big supporter of sending more $$$ to Ukraine and is getting blasted by the MAGA Republicans for it. The hypothetical weapon is also only in development, so it won't be knocking Starlink sats out of the sky anytime soon.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/15/republicans-blast-mike-turner-hyping-russia-threat-call-inquiry/

https://archive.ph/iuTtD

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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), a staunch opponent of sending more U.S. taxpayer aid to Ukraine on top of the $113 billion already spent, called Turner “incredibly irresponsible.”

“The game you’re watching is not the game that is actually being played. I think it was incredibly irresponsible for House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner to go out and gaslight the country alleging this national security threat,” he said on his show Firebrand.

“Without being able to discuss the country or the matter, here’s what I can say. I read the intelligence today. And while, of course, these types of things require us to keep an eye on them, it was not, like, markedly different than other similar types of intelligence analysis that we have received, that I have been briefed on for several years now as a seven-year member of the House Armed Services Committee,” he said, adding:

"And so, then it really begs the question, why? Why were you gaslit? Why was there this big, overarching claim of the imminency of some harm to the American people? You see in the House of Representatives, we are working to block a nearly $100 billion dollar deficit spend. And we’re concerned that that deficit spending isn’t going to make the world safer — giving money to Ukraine, any other kind of provocations around it — it could actually make the world considerably less safe.

And so…conservatives stuck together, killed this bad bill. And then right on the heels of that you have Mike Turner out there saying oh, this big national security threat. And you watch, they’ll try to use the veneer of this threat to try to justify spying on you, spending your money driving up prices and being inflationary."

 

[Iron Jaguar]

The grocery store video was weird

I guess it would seem strange to Americans - clean, everyone behaving like humans, no niggers stealing without repercussions. Yeah, totally weird.

I also cannot understand why some of you are acting like allowing Putin a public voice is some sort of treason or even partisan behaviour on Tucker's part. The very fact that not a single one of the major Western news networks has interviewed the Russian President in a two year period of war should be extremely telling.
Did you idiots learn nothing from the constant barrage of lies and propaganda those same "journalists" dumped on you during the Covid fraud?!

 

[Feline Supremacist]

start hanging these retarded Russophiles for treason.

Opinions are not treason in the USA, unlike yurop which throws people in prison for silly dog videos, misgendering a troon or admitting to silent prayer. Yuros are such bootlickers they can't stand it when people live in a country that doesn't criminalize speech, or even thought, their first impulse is to kill them. Do the world a favor and KYS instead.

 

[mrt6732]

Interesting that Navalny's death happens at the same time his wife was at the Munich security conference rubbing shoulders with prominent Western politicians and slated to give a speech. All of them got to very publicly console her in front of hundreds of cameras.

The words cui bono come to mind since Navalny was mostly an irrelevant, forgotten figure until now.

 

[Mukhrani]

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.

Calling it an assassination is retarded. He was a prisoner, completely in their power. Assassinations are carried out on targets who aren't in your power - when you kill a prisoner, it's execution, extrajudicial or otherwise. By definition you cannot assassinate someone that you have in custody.

Example: JFK was assassinated. Alexander Litvinenko was assassinated. Coach Redpill was not assassinated.

I really wish you lot would, in Minecraft, start hanging these retarded Russophiles for treason.

You can make these points without Putin’s dick in your mouth.

The same retards who rant about democracy say shit like this. America isn't at war with Russia. We're ostensibly (lol) a democracy. In a democracy, citizens and their representatives decide things like foreign policy, whether to declare war, and who we ought to consider enemies and allies. It isn't supposed to be decided by a bunch of retarded nepobabies at the State Department, who then round up citizens who disagree and execute them. That's pretty much the polar opposite of democracy,

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

Calling it an assassination is retarded. He was a prisoner, completely in their power. Assassinations are carried out on targets who aren't in your power - when you kill a prisoner, it's execution, extrajudicial or otherwise. By definition you cannot assassinate someone that you have in custody.

Example: JFK was assassinated. Alexander Litvinenko was assassinated. Coach Redpill was not assassinated.

Mmm, I think it's more nuanced. If Putin just uses his KGB connections to arrange to have someone poisoned while they sit in prison I'd say that's an assassination. An unjust public execution would not be, because unjust or not, it's obviously government sanctioned and the government is admitting they did it, even if they had no right to.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

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 makes me think of the "Yeltsin at American grocery store" photo but at the time of that photo, American supermarkets in general were firing on all cylinders, with well-staffed service departments, appealing décor, and 24 hour service. I'm not sure I buy "Russians supermarkets GOOD" but there's certainly to be said something for the decline of the American grocery store.

 

[RybenZ999]

If you are that easily fooled. Social media however paints a much different picture of Russia.

Russia is definitely not a paradise, but what makes you social media is any less of a virtual world? Don't trust anything you see on the internet, and this applies to pro russia stuff as well. As the old 4chan saying goes...

 

[dustbuster]

Tucker was answering since the context of his comments kinda makes it sound worse.

He was referring to Obama droning a minor-aged US citizen.

 

[007Eleven]

I just admire how Putin couldn't wait a week to burn all the good will he got from that interview lol.

 

[MrJokerRager]

I just admire how Putin couldn't wait a week to burn all the good will he got from that interview lol.

If you watched the interview.

Putin admits that Uncle Sam has Russia beat on the propaganda machine.

Putin doesn't really care about good will from the Western leaders but told Tucker why Ukraine is fake and gay in the most detailed manner possible.

 

[Atomic Ant]

Alexander Litvinenko was assassinated.

This story is comparitively kind of low stakes so I cant really blame someone for not knowing why it is a completely ridiculous farce, but Litvenenko was definitely not assassinated, he died due to user error smuggling nuclear fuel and the powers that be saw it as an opportunity to propagandize.

were meant to believe that this literal double agent with a history in transport of sensitive materials was assassinated by poisoning with a 1. extremely rare and expensive 2. nuclear fuel which 3. leaves an unmistakable forensic residue for... what reason exactly? did putin choose to do it that way to send a secret message to the CIA? couldnt he do that with pen and paper? Dont you think it would have been much cheaper, safer, and more difficult to detect if he had simply used, uh, lead?

its like if a korean spy choked to death on a usb drive containing 1000BTC and CNN tried to tell you it was a hitjob by the japanese because bitcoin was invented in japan.

 

[dustbuster]

This story is comparitively kind of low stakes so I cant really blame someone for not knowing why it is a completely ridiculous farce, but Litvenenko was definitely not assassinated, he died due to user error smuggling nuclear fuel and the powers that be saw it as an opportunity to propagandize.

were meant to believe that this literal double agent with a history in transport of sensitive materials was assassinated by poisoning with a 1. extremely rare and expensive 2. nuclear fuel which 3. leaves an unmistakable forensic residue for... what reason exactly? did putin choose to do it that way to send a secret message to the CIA? couldnt he do that with pen and paper? Dont you think it would have been much cheaper, safer, and more difficult to detect if he had simply used, uh, lead?

its like if a korean spy choked to death on a usb drive containing 1000BTC and CNN tried to tell you it was a hitjob by the japanese because bitcoin was invented in japan.

Try again.
We use Uranium and Plutonium for nuclear fuel, not Polonium.

 

[Atomic Ant]

Try again.
We use Uranium and Plutonium for nuclear fuel, not Polonium.

Dude you could at least have the good grace to check wikipedia before you post bullshit

A single gram of 210Po generates 140 watts of power.[14] Because it emits many alpha particles, which are stopped within a very short distance in dense media and release their energy, 210Po has been used as a lightweight heat source to power thermoelectric cells in artificial satellites; for instance, a 210Po heat source was also in each of the Lunokhod rovers deployed on the surface of the Moon, to keep their internal components warm during the lunar nights.[15] Some anti-static brushes, used for neutralizing static electricity on materials like photographic film, contain a few microcuries of 210Po as a source of charged particles.[16] 210Po was also used in initiators for atomic bombs through the (α,n) reaction with beryllium.[17] Small neutron sources reliant on the (α,n) reaction also usually use polonium as a convenient source of alpha particles due to its comparatively low gamma emissions (allowing easy shielding) and high specific activity.

I also happen to personally know someone who is involved in high-end nuclear fuel research and they have done work with polonium before.. but dont take it from me, its on wikipedia.

 

[dustbuster]

check wikipedia before you post bullshit

According to propagandipedia, gamergate is a racist hate movement and Trump is literally hitler.

Why not post a thread from /b/ instead?

(oh yeah, and your little quote doesn't contain a single instance in which it is actually used as "nuclear fuel")

I also happen to personally know someone who is involved in high-end nuclear fuel research

I'm a navy seal with 300 confirmed kills

 

[Atomic Ant]

According to propagandipedia, gamergate is a racist hate movement and Trump is literally hitler.

Why not post a thread from /b/ instead?


I'm a navy seal with 300 confirmed kills

If you are too much of a paint chip eating retard to tell the difference between politics and nuclear physics on wikipedia then I'm afraid theres little hope of anything enlightening coming from this exchange going forward

 

[dustbuster]

you are too much of a paint chip eating retard to tell the difference between politics and nuclear physics on wikipedia

You don't know how to fucking read, and posted a paragraph long quote in which not a single instance of polonium's use as nuclear fuel is mentioned.. as .. evidence polonium is "nuclear fuel"

Perhaps Russian is your first language?
Need to brush up on your English?