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Tucker Carlson says he regrets backing Donald Trump and is ‘tormented’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 months ago by hanrahan@slrpnk.net to c/leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world

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“You know, we’ll be tormented by it for a long time – I will be,” Tucker Carlson said. “And I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people. It was not intentional, that’s all I’ll say.”

Though Carlson in 1999 had referred to Trump as “the single most repulsive person on the planet”, he beat most pundits in calling for Trump to be taken seriously before he won his first presidency in 2016.

Trump recently published a social media post calling Carlson “a Low IQ person – Always easy to beat, and highly overrated!!!”

FFS now I agree with Trump ?

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[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

I'm not torn as it pertains to Carlson. I too think he needs to do more than a simple "oops, my bad." I'm just aware of the fact that while we cannot excuse past actions, drawing too hard a line when acknowledging remorse can have adverse consequences.

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[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I don't see remorse. I see a crocodile tearing he’s about to get lunch. Or a leopard tearing he packed with the wrong alpha.

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[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Maybe. But “your remorse isn’t real” is the type of hard line I’m talking about.

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[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 2 points 6 months ago

Oh for sure, true remorse must be demonstrated, which is still my point. There’s not a singular step Carlson has done to show us he regrets his actions, and does not want to continue them.

Nobody here buys his lies. Getting us to trust him again is a cliff he will have to climb up. And no American has proven it to me yet.

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