Tucker Carlson Says He Bought New Home To Make A Statement ― And It’s A Weird One | EUROtoday

Tucker Carlson appeared to connect quite a lot of significance to a property buy in Qatar.

The former Fox News host on Sunday defended himself in opposition to claims that he’s been backed by Qatari cash earlier than declaring he’s including a spot to his actual property portfolio.

“I have been criticized as being a tool of Qatar, and I just want to say, which you already know, which is I have never taken anything from your country and don’t plan to,” Carlson advised Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani on the Doha Forum. “I am, however, tomorrow buying a place in Qatar. … In Doha … I like the city, I think it’s beautiful, but also to make the statement that I’m an American and a free man, and I’ll be wherever I want to be, which I think is important.”

“But that does kind of leave us in a place where I have not taken any money from Qatar,” he continued. “I have instead given money to Qatar. I wonder if you feel that that means I’ve bought you and you will now spew my propaganda.”

“Just ask me whatever you want me to do for you,” the prime minister answered, sparking a spasm of Carlson’s maniacal laughter.

Carlson’s property will presumably be safer now that President Donald Trump lately assured the autocracy NATO-like assist if it ought to come underneath assault. He made the decree months after securing a free $400 million jet from the oil nation.

Carlson, who now has a present on X after being proven the door by the conservative community in 2023, beforehand bought multimillion-dollar properties subsequent door to one another in Boca Grande, Florida, and has owned a house in Maine since 2020, in line with Realtor.com.

He had two properties in Washington, D.C., however bought them for a few mixed $6 million, in line with the true property web site.

He was a free man and an American then, too.

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