On Wednesday evening, ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared on MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight” and asserted that Tucker Carlson was playing right into the hands of Russian President Vladimir Putin by being a “useful idiot.”
Host Alex Wagner asked her: “Tucker Carlson is in Moscow right now interviewing Vladimir Putin. The first American – I’ll say – journalist to interview Putin since the war in Ukraine began. What does not tell you about Tucker Carlson and right-wing media and also Vladimir Putin?”
Clinton replied: “Well, it shows me what I think we’ve all known. He’s what is called a useful idiot.”
” I mean, if you actually read translations of what’s being said on Russian media, they make fun of him. I mean, he’s like a puppy dog,” she added.
“You know, somehow, after having been fired from so many outlets and the United States, he– I would not be surprised if he emerges with a contract with a Russian outlet because he is a useful idiot,” she continued.
“He says things that are not true. He parrots Vladimir Putin’s pack of lies about Ukraine,” she said.
NEW: Twice failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton calls Tucker Carlson a “useful idiot” and a “puppy dog.”
Hillary is mad that a journalist is doing journalism.
“He's like a puppy dog. You know? He somehow has been fired from so many outlets in the United States.”
“He… pic.twitter.com/URCElBP2SI
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 8, 2024
“So, I don’t see why Putin wouldn’t give him an interview because,