So Tucker Carlson secretly hates Donald Trump … is anybody surprised? | Arwa Mahdawi

Carlson has been caught out of character. Is it over for him? Somehow, I don't think so

I hate him passionately."

Thanks to new court filings in a $1.6bn defamation lawsuit against Fox News we now know exactly how the network's star host, Tucker Carlson, really feels about Donald Trump. Two days before the insurrection at the Capitol, around the same time that Carlson was publicly singing Trump's praises to his audience of millions, he was also sending private texts to members of his staff about how much despised the guy. It's almost like Carlson doesn't believe a single word he says on TV.

Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist