NEW YORK — For a number of months, Fox News handled Donald Trump like yesterday’s information. But now the previous president has come roaring again on the common community for conservative viewers, most notably since his indictment in New York on hush-money prices.
The Trump revival was on show Tuesday night time, when Tucker Carlson devoted his total prime-time program to a “historic interview” with him, promising extra excerpts on Wednesday. It was two weeks after Sean Hannity equally gave Trump intensive airtime.
Left unmentioned have been Carlson’s two-year-old non-public textual content messages, revealed in a defamation case towards the community, during which he disparaged Trump and talked eagerly of placing the previous president behind him. In one of many exchanges, from Jan. 4, 2021, Carlson wrote that “we are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights” and “I truly can’t wait.”
Trump’s return reverses what some had been calling a “soft ban” by Fox News, which had no on-air interviews with him between Sept. 22, 2022, and Hannity on March 27.
“The short answer is, they need each other,” mentioned Jane Hall, a journalism professor at American University and writer of “Politics and the Media: Intersections and New Directions.”