Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Monday that former President Barack Obama is “dishonest” in his public support for President Joe Biden to remain in the race for the White House.
Biden, 81,’s performance in Thursday’s presidential debate spooked Democrats as he responded poorly and sounded weak and confused.
Carlson, who has been hosting a talk show on X, took to the platform overnight and said he got his information from an “unusually good source.”
“Obama’s tweet supporting Joe Biden was hypocritical,” Carlson wrote. “Privately, Obama is telling people that Biden can’t win and is therefore in favor of an open convention.”
“Obama won’t say who he’s supporting and as of yesterday afternoon he had not met with Biden in person to deliver the message,” Carlson continued.
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired a theory Monday night on X-rated that former President Barack Obama is not as supportive of President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign as he may appear.
Carlson said that behind closed doors, “Obama is telling people that Biden can’t win, and therefore he’s in favor of an open convention.” The former Fox News host also blames first lady Jill Biden for keeping her husband away from people who would tell him to back off.
Biden traveled to Raleigh, North Carolina, immediately after the debate and gave a much more forceful performance, defending his decision to stay in the race.
“Friends, I no longer walk as easily as I used to, I no longer speak as fluently as I used to, I no longer debate as well as I used to.”
“But I know what I know: I know how to tell the truth, I know right from wrong, I know how to do this job, I know how to get things done,” the president argued.
Biden then spent most of the weekend fundraising in New York and New Jersey.
The president returned to Camp David, where he had holed up for a week to prepare for the debate, and is expected back at the White House late Monday.
Carlson said that “relations between the Obamas and the Bidens have never been warm.”
“They’ve been hostile at times,” the former Fox News host added. “But they’ve deteriorated even more recently, especially because of Jill Biden.”
President Barack Obama (left) smiles alongside President Joe Biden (right) during their fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall in late March. Tucker Carlson insists Obama isn’t as much of a Joe supporter as he appears
President Joe Biden had a disastrous first presidential debate, which has spooked party members. He was at times unable to keep his train of thought and coughed during the opening moments.
“In the hours and days after the debate, she kept her husband away from anyone who might convince him to withdraw,” Carlson said. “Jill Biden is the driving force behind her husband’s reelection campaign, just as she was in 2020, when other family members (including Biden’s sister, Val) deemed him too unfit to run.”
“The next generation of potential Democratic candidates see this as an opportunity and are jumping at it, particularly Gretchen Whitmer, who is aggressively promoting herself,” Carlson added.
On Friday, Obama came out in support of Biden, saying that “there are bad debate nights.”
The Democrat said the election remains a “choice between someone who has fought for ordinary people his entire life and someone who only cares about himself.”
Although the New York Times editorial board wrote an op-ed saying Biden should withdraw, Obama did no such thing.
But there have been some reports about rifts between the two prominent Democratic families.
Axios reported on Thursdaybefore the debate, that Michelle Obama privately expressed her frustrations with how the Bidens treated Kathleen Buhle, her close friend and ex-wife of Hunter Biden.
Three of the Bidens’ seven grandchildren are Kathleen’s, but she was ostracized from the family after she divorced Hunter while he was addicted to crack cocaine.
