Tucker Carlson laid into President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Thursday, accusing them of committing “crimes” in their support of Ukraine. He referenced a “leaked” Pentagon slideshow that, Carlson said, proves the American people are being lied to about the status of the war in Ukraine.
“The second thing we learned from these slides is that despite direct U.S. involvement, Ukraine is in fact losing the war,” Carlson said last week. “Seven Ukrainians are being killed for every Russian. Ukrainian air defenses have been utterly degraded. Ukraine is losing. The Biden administration is perfectly aware of this.”
As it turns out, the slides he referenced were apparently doctored by a known Russian propagandist who lives in the United States. “Tucker Carlson pushed a fake version of a U.S. intelligence document about Ukrainian war casualties,” said Yahoo News senior correspondent Michael Weiss on Twitter. “It was doctored by a fraud podcaster who claimed to be a Russian woman from Luhansk. In reality, Sarah Bils is a former U.S. Navy clerk from New Jersey—and she pocketed all the money she claimed to raise for Russian causes.”
This is terrible. Carlson should resign and face jail time.
Tucker is a fraud.
”doctored” is not quite the same thing as fake. Fake would mean completely fabricated out of whole cloth without a shred of legitimacy, ‘doctored’ can mean that this was a legitimate document with minor changes made for any number of reasons. The details provided here are extremely fuzzy, which leads me to believe that there was a minor ”doctoring” and the media is using that as a pretext to cancel Tucker Carlson, whom they hate with the fire of a thousand suns.
Rather ironic that the Democrats all fulminate about alleged Russians posters (or Russian robot posters) disguised as Americans, when it seems the problem is Americans disguised as Russians. And is there no violation of law in raising money under false pretenses?
Or Russian collusion & Ukrainian hoax.