"A look at the time Tucker Carlson asked Hunter Biden for a favor
The Fox News host often ridicules the president’s son, but years ago,
the two were close
By Matt Viser
May 19, 2022 at 12:43 p.m. EDT
Tucker Carlson and his wife were looking to get their son a leg up in
his college application to Georgetown University when they turned to a well-connected Washington friend who had an even better-connected father.
“I realize you don’t really know Buckley,” Susie Carlson wrote via email in 2014 to Hunter Biden, a Georgetown graduate and the son of the
then-vice president. “Maybe you could meet or speak to him and he could
send you a very brief resume with his interests and grades attached.”
Tucker Carlson offered that his son was a good squash player and an
excellent fly fisherman. “He loves Washington for all the right reasons,
I think,” Carlson added, “and really wants to go to school here.” When Biden agreed to write a letter of recommendation, Susie Carlson added a
heap of praise: “Tucker and I have the greatest respect and admiration
for you. Always!”
The Carlsons’ past entreaties to Biden may come as a surprise to many present-day viewers of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the highly rated prime-time Fox News show on which the host has repeatedly ridiculed
Biden for seeking to profit off his family connections and at times for
his history of personal troubles and drug use.
The interactions reveal the extent to which Carlson was willing to turn
on a former associate as he thrives in a hyperpartisan media world in
which conservatives have made Biden a prime target for attack during his father’s presidency. They also show how Carlson once sought to benefit
from the elite political circles in Washington that he now regularly
rails against as the “ruling class.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/19/look-time-tucker-carlson-asked-hunter-biden-favor/
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