Fox News has come under fire from Senate Republicans and Capitol Police after one of its hosts, Tucker Carlson, showed an alleged unreleased footage of the riot at Congress two years ago and downplayed the violent disorder.
Host Tucker Carlson showed the video on Monday night, contending it “does not show an insurrection or a riot in progress”, but rather “mostly peaceful chaos”. A top congressional Republican provided Carlson exclusive access to the video.
Republicans, however, claim that the Fox host mischaracterized the congressional search.
Here’s all you need to know about Tucker Carlson-
Tucker Carlson’s wife and children-
Susan Thomson Carlson is Tucker Carlson’s wife. They met at St. George’s School, where she was the headmaster’s and priest’s daughter.
On August 10, 1991, they were wed in the school church.
The couple has four children – Buckley Carlson, Hopie Carlson, Dorothy Carlson, Lillie Carlson.
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Tucker Carlson’s net worth-
Tucker Carlson has an estimated net worth of $30 million.
Tucker Carlson’s inheritance-
After his parents divorced when he was six years old, the journalist’s father was granted possession of his two sons. His father eventually wed Patricia Caroline Swanson. Swanson Companies, more formally known as Swanson Foods, belonged to Patricia, Gilbert Carl Swanson’s daughter. But by the time Patricia married the journalist’s father, the family had already sold Swanson’s to Campbell Soup. This implies that neither the journalist nor his wife own Swanson Foods.
His biological mother, Lisa, died in 2011. She was the beneficiary of an oil and gas partnership in rural central California. Tucker and his brother Buckley have been embroiled in a legal battle over their late mother’s estate, as per tuko.ke .
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Tucker Carlson Fox News-
Fox News made the announcement that Carlson would be joining the network as a correspondent in May 2009. He frequently appeared as a guest panellist on Fox’s late-night satire programme Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld, regularly appeared on the All-Star Panel segment of Special Report with Bret Baier, filled in as Hannity’s host when Sean Hannity was absent, and in September 2010 produced and hosted a special called Fighting for Our Children’s Minds.
Carlson started presenting Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News on November 14, 2016. With 3.7 million viewers, the first installment of the new show—which took On the Record’s place—was the network’s most watched broadcast of the year during that time period.
With 3.2 million nightly viewers in October 2018, Tucker Carlson Tonight was the second-highest-rated television news programme during prime time, behind The Sean Hannity Show with Sean Hannity.
Carlson revealed a multiyear agreement with Fox News in February 2021 to host a new weekly podcast and a run of monthly specials on Fox Nation, a sister streaming service. Tucker Carlson Originals premiered on March 29.
He started presenting Tucker Carlson Today, a programme on Fox Nation, in the spring of 2021.
Tucker Carlson’s salary-
Tucker Carlson earns $6 million per year at Fox News as per Celebrity Net Worth.
Tucker Carlson’s home-
Prior to 2011, Carlson and his wife Susan Thomson lived in a $4 million home, which the family sold in November 2017 for $2.04 million.
The couple purchased a $2 million home in the Kent neighbourhood of Washington, D.C. in 2011. In July 2017, the media personality paid $3.895 million for another home in the same Kent neighbourhood, which she plans to sell for $3.95 million in July 2020.
After protestors gathered in the driveway, the house was demolished. In 2020, the media personality paid $2.9 million for a new home on Gasparilla Island in Florida. The family of six now divides their time between the Florida home and another built on his family’s property in Maine.
