Tucker Carlson He arrived in the country this Wednesday to interview the most voted PASO candidate. The journalist and leader of the American alternative right is preparing for a report with Javier Miley, weeks away from getting an interview with Donald Trump. The new challenge of the former reporter Fox News places the local libertarian on a comparative pedestal with other interviewees, such as Nayib Bukele and Victor Organ.
In that aspect, Carlson is known for interviewing global right-wing figures and giving space to all kinds of conspiracy theories in his programs. Examples of this were the allegations of fraud in the election that the current president won. Joe Bidena fact that finally caused his departure from Fox News, or the meeting with Larry Sinclair in which the interviewee claimed to have sold cocaine to Barack Obama.
After being fired last April from the chain Rupert Murdock where he was driving “Tucker Carlson Tonight”, The North American journalist currently conducts interviews independently and publishes them on his X account, where he has 10 million followers. The phenomenon was not foreign in Argentina, positioning the trending topic with the hashtag #WelcomeTucker within the podium of trends in social networks.
“Welcome to Argentina,” he harangued. Carolina Piparo at a dinner held in honor of the visitor, which was also attended by the economist Benegas Lynch and other coalition leaders Freedom Advances. The Buenos Aires gubernatorial candidate is going to be interviewed by Carlson and she took advantage of the meeting to take a photo with the American journalist. “He asked us Argentines what it is like to live with 150 percent inflation, he took anecdotes,” explained the candidate for legislator and liberal economist. Diana Mondino.
On the other hand, the journalist Marcelo Longobardi He aimed at the newcomer. “I hate him, he seems to me to be a character who is destroying this worthy and honorable profession, because many people may think that we are all Tucker Carlson,” Longobardi said on Radio Rivadavia.
He was not the only local journalist to criticize Carlson, on his television program, Jonathan Viale He expressed: “This guy invented cool things. His last invention, a couple of days before setting foot on Argentine soil, was that they were about to kill Trump. “Sometimes I follow him because I have no choice, because I am interested in what is happening in the world and I see it or read his comments.”
Positioned inside the line conservative libertarian, the driver of Tucker on X He already had a rapprochement with the Albiceleste country before. In November of last year, Carlson mocked the president Alberto Fernandez, when the president proposed the possibility of exchanging the debt of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for climate action.”Suddenly worrying about global warming is now a kind of legal tender…”, the reporter ironized in relation to the initiative.
With the journey that Tucker Carlson developed in the Argentine electoral panorama, focusing on the leaders of Freedom Advancesthe media controversy has just begun and promises a shocking farewell on social networks, when the American reporter finds himself in front of Javier Milei.
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