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Tucker Carlson has sensationally claimed the Murdoch family asked him to run against Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.
The former Fox News anchor said he flat-out rejected the idea after it was floated by Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch, the son of media titan Rupert Murdoch, a few weeks after Carlson's April 2023 ouster from the network.
'The Murdochs really hate Trump. There's no one who hates Trump more than the Murdochs,' Carlson said on his show Tuesday.
Lachlan offered support for a potential Carlson bid from 'the whole Fox News apparatus,' including The Wall Street Journal, Carlson claimed.
Carlson made the remarks during a conversation with fellow former Fox News host Clayton Morris, suggesting other on-air talent still at the network secretly despise Trump as well.
'I'm just offended watching these people who I know personally, and I know for a fact they hate Trump,' Carlson, 56, said.
'The Murdochs really hate Trump. There's no one who hates Trump more than the Murdochs. I mean, I got fired in April of 2023.
'In May of 2023, they asked me to run for president against Trump and said they would back me. Obviously, I'm not running for any, you know - I would never get elected.
'Plus, I like Trump. I mean, that's the funny thing,' Carlson added.
'Lachlan Murdoch said, "You should run for president. We'll back you, The whole thing. The whole Fox News apparatus.
'"And not just Fox, but, you know, Wall Street Journal. All of their papers. We'll back you."'
'I was already gone - they'd already canceled my show. I was still under contract but they canceled my show.'
Trump, 79, had announced his presidential bid in November 2022.
The revelation come more than three years after Lachlan and Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott pulled the plug on Carlson's wildly successful primetime show.
At the time, Fox had just paid a historic $787 million settlement to Dominion Voting Systems, which sued over claims the anchor and other hosts spread lies about its voting machines during the 2020 election.
The suit was settled at the height of Carlson's success, and multiple text messages sent by the host to colleagues over the course of the 2020 election were made public during discovery.
They revealed how Carlson despised Trump behind the scenes while singing his praises on-air.
'I hate him passionately,' he wrote of the president in private text messages sent on Jan. 4, 2021, after repeatedly decrying his claims the 2020 election was 'stolen.'
'I can't handle much more of this.'
During an appearance on WABC radio in March 2023, Carlson said he was 'enraged' over his texts being revealed while attempting to walk them back.
Rupert, 94, stepped down as chairman of News Corporation in September 2023, eight months before Lachlan, 53, allegedly extended the offer to Carlson.
Carlson, meanwhile, has continued to criticize Trump in recent days for his posture toward the Middle East.
Carlson on Tuesday slammed Fox News as a peddler of pro-war 'propaganda' and part of an effort to 'scare old people' as well.
The Daily Mail has reached out to Fox for comment.
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