The mainstream media is in “panic mode” after US television host Tucker Carlson managed to secure an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Candace Owens.
The Daily Wire host joined Nigel Farage to discuss the bombshell interview that will be posted without edits.
In a post to X (formerly Twitter), Carlson said the upcoming interview is a chance to see the “truth” of the Ukraine war.
He said the interview would be on his own website and posted “uncensored” by the X owner, Elon Musk.
Candace Owens says Tucker Carlson is 'brave'
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“He’s incredibly wise”, Owens said of Carlson.
“He’s not just wise, he’s brave. There obviously has been a lot of lies sold to us.
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“You can just go back and look at what the mainstream media was saying on the first day that Russia invaded Ukraine.
“It’s much of their emotional engineering, people didn’t understand what was happening but we were told that we just have to be ok with billions of dollars going overseas.
“This is what I refer to as the political commentary, they’re controlling your ideas but you actually don’t have access to truth.”
Carlson argued in his X post that the “populations of the English-speaking countries seem mostly unaware, their media outlets are corrupt.”
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He added: “They lie to the readers and viewers. Their interviews Voldomyr Zelensky has gone in the US are not traditional interviews.
“They are fawning pep sessions specifically designed to amplify Zelensky’s demands that the US enter more deeply into a war in Eastern Europe and pay for it.”
More than 1,000 journalists have fled Russia since the invasion of Ukraine, with Russia one of the world’s top five jailers of journalists in 2023, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Putin last gave an interview to a western outlet in 2021, speaking to a reporter for CNBC, but has largely stopped speaking with independent media in both Russia and afar since launching his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Putin’s press secretary, Peskov, said that “we’ve received numerous requests [from western media] for an interview with the president” but “all those media assume a lopsided position”.
“Of course, no one is happy about speaking to such media, and besides, there’s hardly any sense in doing this, it’s unlikely that it can do any good,” Peskov said.