Tucker Carlson has hit back at the hosts of The View after they called for him to face a Department of Justice investigation for highlighting the US government’s funding of Ukrainian biolabs.
Speaking on his Fox News show Monday night, Carlson laughed off their remarks that he had been ‘shilling’ for Putin and Whoopi Goldberg’s remark that ‘They used to arrest people for stuff like this.’
He answered: Really? ‘They used to arrest people for saying stuff like this.’ When did they arrest people for saying stuff like this, and who is they exactly?’
‘So we are at war with Russia! We must send you to the gulag because freedom!’ he mocked.
‘Because a democracy, the one thing democracy doesn’t have patience for is dissenting views from its own citizens, particularly citizens who sincerely hope and pray for the best for their own country.’
Much of the liberal anger towards Carlson comes from his decision to highlight the United States’ funding of biolabs in Ukraine.
Those labs use material which may have once been used to develop Soviet-era bioweapons, according to a report shared by a Department of Defense director called Robert Pope in February.
He warned that the same material, which is frozen, could be released into the air with devastating consequences if the labs are damaged during fighting, and it is allowed to thaw.
That report, and Carlson’s subsequent remarks, have been seized on by Russian propagandists to claim that the United States was actually developing biological weapons in the war-torn nation.
He said: ‘The director of the U.S. Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, a man who would know a man called Robert Pope, has confirmed that scientists are keeping Soviet-era pathogens for research purposes in Ukraine.
‘They told us they were destroying them. They should have destroyed them, but they haven’t. What could go wrong in an active war zone? And they knew that those pathogens existed and were being experimented upon, researched.’
Pope issued a bulletin in February saying that some of the biological material had previously been used for Soviet-era bioweapons programs, but that Ukraine no longer had the ability to develop such weapons.
Commenting on the significant of Pope’s warning, Carlson continued: ‘And they didn’t secure them before the Russians invaded, though they knew the Russian invasion was coming because they told us.
‘And then, Toria Nuland, the Under Secretary of State who oversees this disaster, testified under oath that, yes, Russian forces might seize those biolabs in Ukraine, and we should all be very worried about that possibility.
‘Over the weekend, CBS News reported that Pentagon officials have confirmed that these biolabs in Ukraine are, in fact, conducting research on anthrax and other “deadly pathogens.”
Carlson’s broadcasts have been aired on Russian state television, furthering anger among his liberal detractors.
On Monday night, Carlson highlighted the long list of people who have attacked him for his views, quoting Mitt Romney, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, and Russian-American Washington Post columnist Max Boot.
He reserved special scorn for the hosts and guests on daytime talk show The View, who called for Carlson to be investigated by the Department of Justice.
‘What Tucker Carlson parrots every night on Fox News, what Tulsi Gabbard is spreading, is actually helping Putin get away with criminal acts against civilians,’ said Alyssa Farah, a former Trump White House communications staffer, and now frequent guest on The View.
Ana Navarro, a Republican strategist and permanent host, added: ‘I think the Department of Justice, in the same way it is setting up a task force to investigate oligarchs, should look into people who are Russian propagandists shilling for Putin.
‘If you are a foreign asset to a dictator, it should be investigated.
‘In fact, I remember when Tulsi Gabbard – and I even hate that we are discussing it because I think to myself who is this woman, – how do you not call out something that is repeating false Russian propaganda? And that has been brought down?’
Whoopi Goldberg said: ‘They use to arrest people for doing stuff like this.’
The U.S. have confirmed that they are involved in laboratories for medical research where pathogens are stored, but denied that there were any bioweapons facilities in the country.
Tulsi Gabbard, the former presidential candidate and Hawaii congresswoman, has also been questioning U.S. activities in Ukraine, tweeting: ‘There are 25+ US-funded biolabs in Ukraine which if breached would release & spread deadly pathogens to US/world.
This is an excerpt from Daily Mail.
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