An attorney for Tucker Carlson sent a cease-and-desist letter to the “Draft Tucker PAC” to stop activities after it released a video that sought to encourage the former Fox News host to run for president in 2024, saying that Carlson will not make a 2024 White House bid “under any circumstances.”
“It has come to Mr. Carlson’s attention that you are soliciting contributions and donor contact information from the public by representing that the funds will be used to draft Mr. Tucker to run for President in 2024,” Carlson’s lawyer Harmeet Dhillon wrote in a letter, according to multiple news outlets.
The letter then declared that Carlson, who was let go by Fox News in late April, “will not run for President in 2024 under any circumstances, and therefore your misrepresentations are damaging to Mr. Carlson and defrauding his supporters.” The former host has made similar statements in public that he won’t seek public office, although those came before he and Fox parted ways….