Tucker Carlson turns on Putin after Alexei Navalny’s death in jail: ‘It’s horrifying, barbaric and awful – no decent person would defend it’
- Tucker Carlson has turned on Vladimir Putin in the wake of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s shock death
- It comes just days after the former Fox News presenter released a fawning interview with the Russian president
- The Siberian Prison Service, where Navalny was serving a nineteen-year sentence, announced the death of Putin’s leading critic on Friday morning
DAILY MAIL
Tucker Carlson has turned on Vladimir Putin in the wake of the shocking death of Alexei Navalny, just days after releasing a softball interview with the Russian president and a series of ‘tourism board style’ videos about the country’s clean train stations and cheap groceries.
In an exclusive statement to DailyMail.com, Carlson said: ‘It’s horrifying what happened to Navalny.
‘The whole thing is barbaric and awful. No decent person would defend it,
It remains unclear whether the former Fox News host is still in Moscow.
Russian news outlets announced Navalny’s death on Friday morning, citing the Siberian prison service where he was serving a nineteen-year sentence for ‘extremism’, sparking fury across the globe.
‘On February 16, 2024, in correctional colony No. 3, convict Navalny A.A. felt unwell after a walk, almost immediately losing consciousness,’ said a statement from prison officials. ‘Emergency doctors confirmed the death of the convict,’ it added.
Global leaders, including the Latvian president, have laid blame for Navalny’s death at Putin’s feet.
Last week the former Fox News presenter released a bizarre interview with Putin in which the Russian president controlled the narrative and made a series of claims about his invasion of Ukraine.
Carlson heaped praise on Russia throughout, calling Moscow ‘so much nicer than any city in my country.’
‘I had no idea. It is so much cleaner, and safer and prettier, aesthetically. Its architecture, food, and services than in any city in the United States. And this is not ideological’ he effused.
When facing criticism for the limitations of the interview, in particular for not mentioning the imprisonment of Navalny, at the World Government Summit, Carlson said ‘every leader kills people, leadership requires killing people.’
In another bizarre video Carlson praised Russia for its low grocery store prices and fresh produce.
The media firebrand wheeled a grocery cart around a Russian superstore while marveling at the stock as he continued his Putin PR tour earlier this week.
