Tucker Carlson Claims Boris Johnson Tried To Shake Him Down ‘A Million Dollars’ for an Interview
Tucker Carlson told Glenn Beck on Tuesday that former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson demanded “a million dollars” in exchange for an interview following Carlson’s controversial interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
During an appearance on BlazeTV+, Carlson told Beck, “So I’m over in Moscow, I’m waiting to do this interview, it gets out that we’re doing it, and I’m immediately denounced by this guy called Boris Johnson, who was for a short time the prime minister of Great Britain, and Boris Johnson calls me a ‘tool of the Kremlin’ or something.”
He continued, “So I put in a request for an interview with Boris Johnson, as I have many times because he’s constantly denouncing me as a tool of the Kremlin. He says no.”
Carlson said he then reached out to Johnson’s team and “finally one of his advisers gets back to me and says, ‘He will talk to you but it’s gonna cost you a million dollars. He wants a million dollars.'”
“What!?” shouted Beck in awe.
“He wants a million dollars in U.S. dollars, gold, or Bitcoin,” claimed Carlson. “This just happened yesterday or two days ago, and I’m like, ‘He wants a million dollars?’ ‘Yeah, and then he will talk to you about Ukraine. He will explain his position on Ukraine.'”
Carlson went on:
So he attacks me, without explaining how I’m wrong, of course, or how he’s right. This is, by the way, the guy who singlehandedly, at the request of the U.S. government, stopped the peace deal in Ukraine a year and a half ago and is, I think, for that reason responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He won’t explain any of that to me in an interview until I pay him a million dollars. And I said to the guy, you know, I just interviewed Vladimir Putin. I’m not defending Putin, but Putin didn’t ask for a million dollars. So you’re telling me that Boris Johnson is a lot sleazier, a lot lower than Vladimir Putin? Which is true. So this whole thing is a freaking shakedown.
He concluded, “If you’re making money off a war, you know, you can deal with God on that because that’s really immoral. Like that’s actually really, really wrong, and a lot of people are, including Boris Johnson.”
Watch above via The Blaze.
