Tucker Carlson is scheduled to make a speech at an Alabama fundraiser on Thursday evening, while he also sent a prerecorded video to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Hungary that aired on Thursday.
“Greetings to CPAC Hungary and all you Americans in the audience,” Carlson said in the footage posted on social media. “You are very brave. You’ve landed up on one of [U.S. Agency for International Development chief] Samantha Power’s lists. The State Department is keeping track! You went to a forbidden country!”
It isn’t clear when the CPAC video was recorded, but notably, Carlson made what appears to be a joking reference to being “fired” from his job at Fox News. “I wish I was there in Budapest. If I ever get fired and have some time and can leave, I will be there with you. But in the meantime, Godspeed, we are thinking of you and cheering you on,” he said….