Tucker Carlson on Sunday falsely said Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is Samoan and Malaysian in a racist rant tinged by conspiracy theory. (Watch the video below.)
Harris’ mother is from India and her father from Jamaica.
But Carlson appeared to be using Samoa and Malaysia as sarcastic plug-ins for nonwhite nations to dig at Harris’ racial background. Republican nominee Donald Trump and allies have been doing that with greater intensity since the vice president received the nomination.
In a speech before Trump took the stage at Madison Square Garden, the disgraced Fox News alum also took other pages out of the GOP playbook. He insulted Harris’ intelligence and preemptively sowed doubt about the election results in case she wins.
“It’s gonna be pretty hard to look at us and say, ’You know what? Kamala Harris, she got 85 million votes because she’s just so impressive as the first Samoan-Malaysian, low-IQ, former California prosecutor ever to be elected president,” he sneered. “It was just a groundswell of popular support, and anyone who thinks otherwise is just a freak or a criminal.”
“She’s not impressive,” Carlson said. “It’s very hard for me to believe the rest of us are going to say, ‘You know what, [MSNBC host] Joe Scarborough, you’re right, you’re right. She won fair and square because she’s just so impressive!’”
“I don’t think so,” he added.
It was not so long ago as Fox News’ prime-time star that Carlson promoted falsehoods about the 2020 election and downplayed the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection as mostly “peaceful.” Privately, however, he expressed hatred for Trump and skepticism of the voting machine lies that eventually stung Fox News in a lawsuit.
He got canned after the conservative channel agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million because it spread misinformation that the company was rigging votes in favor of Trump’s opponent Joe Biden.
He’s now a host on X ― and a warmup act for a man he seemed to secretly loathe at one time.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this article misstated the claims Fox News made against Dominion Voting Systems.
