Over the past few days, I texted with Tucker Carlson, my old boss at the Daily Caller, to ask him questions about his “Patriot Purge” special. I wanted to make sure I had my facts straight before I published a piece I was working on for Yahoo News.
On Monday, January 3, I texted him this.
I’ve blocked out Tucker’s response because I asked him if he wanted his comments to be on the record, or off the record, and he said he did not want to be quoted. So I’m respecting his wishes. But as you can see from my response, he mentioned a man named Ray Epps, who is mentioned in the story that I ended up writing, which you can read here.
I started working on this piece a little while ago, and was picking it back up this week to do final fact-checking. Tucker and I went back and forth a few more times after this. He…
