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Tucker Carlson says ‘being racist is not a crime’ but if he was he would ‘just say so’

Tucker Carlson speaks at the Turning Point Action conference on 15 July in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Tucker Carlson speaks at the Turning Point Action conference on 15 July in West Palm Beach, Florida. Photograph: Marco Bello/Reuters

Far-right former Fox News host Tucker Carlson denies being racist – but says if he was, he would “just say so”.

“Being racist is not a crime,” Carlson says in a new biography, Tucker, by Chadwick Moore. “Maybe [it is] a moral crime, but not a statutory crime – so if I was racist, I would just say so.”

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