The review showed Tucker Carlson Faced with the problem of trying to arrange an interview with the president Vladimir Putin The country’s foreign affairs spokesman said that this is another example of Russia’s negative portrayal by the United States.
Maria Zakharova laughed at the quarrel surrounding Carlson, Who claimed The National Security Agency (NSA) leaked emails about his attempts to contact Putin to discredit him.
In comments made on her Telegram social media channel and reported by Russian state media, Zakharova described it as a “very strange story”, if not because “for some reason, a kind of “Russia” The theory of’threat’ is mixed in.”
“It is said that Tucker Carlson wanted to interview the Russian president, so it attracted the attention of the Secret Service,” she said.
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“According to this reporter, the National Security Agency plans to portray him as a’Kremlin’s mouthpiece’ and a’Russian propaganda agent’,” she wrote in a post on Friday.
“In the worst tradition of McCarthyism, the’Russian Archive’ has become a stable part of domestic political life in the United States,” she said.
“It’s time to turn to aliens and UFOs,” she added In an obvious reference Until recently Pentagon Reports of unknown objects confuse people American armies.
Carlson Zeng Said he learned from the informer That one National Security Agency He plans to leak the contents of his emails to the media to “portray me as an unfaithful American, a Russian agent” and “a running dog of the Kremlin.”
However, the NSA denied the claim Tucker Carlson tonight The host is an intelligence target and stated that it has never had any plans to try to stop his show.
Carlson subsequently reiterated this statement and rejected the US National Security Agency’s statement, calling it “very dishonest.”He also told the podcast The truth about Lisa Booth, Which was broadcast in full on Monday, he felt that he had “no choice” but to say what he did.
“I’m defensive,” he said. “I don’t have the right to subpoena. I can’t arrest anyone. I can’t let them answer questions.
“All I can do is talk about something with the show’s megaphone, hoping to…protect us, but I really feel threatened,” he said in a preview clip obtained by Mediaite.
The National Security Agency told Weekly newspaper It has “no comment”. Fox News It has also been contacted for a response.
