Zelensky accuses Tucker Carlson of ‘working for Putin’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky took a shot at conservative commentator Tucker Carlson and accused him of promoting the Kremlin’s talking points.
“It seems to me that to this journalist, I do not remember his surname. Excuse me, Tucker. Yes, Tucker, his name, but it seems to me he needs to more deeply understand what’s happening in Ukraine,” Zelensky said during an appearance on pundit Piers Morgan’s program. “Just stop working for [Russian President Vladimir] Putin.”
Zelensky was responding to Carlson’s comments to Morgan days earlier saying Ukraine is “not a democracy” and suggesting Russia has a right to control Crimea.
Carlson, Zelensky said, knows better.
“When he simply says something, you know, just throwing the words,” the Ukrainian leader said. “Has he for one time in his lifetime lost his close ones? I wish to his family, I do not know his family, I wish them peace and no losses, but one must have his own opinion and understand that he probably influences many people. He’s simply disinforming them, misinforming the people.”
Zelensky’s comments were first highlighted by Mediaite.
Carlson, a former Fox News host, recently launched his own media company and used an interview and commentary style internet show to feature conversations with newsmakers and other public figures.
Last year, he published an extensive interview with Putin, during which the Russian leader defended his invasion of Ukraine.
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