Fox News host mocked for claiming Damning Biden Docs lost in post

October 29, 2020

Fox News host mocked for claiming Damning Biden Docs lost in post

A Fox News Host Tucker Carlson, has been roasted online after claiming he has bombshell documents about Joe Biden's family - but they were lost in the post.

Tucker Carlson, who hosts the most watched programme on US cable TV, says he was provided with a "collection of confidential documents" related to the election frontrunner's family.

Carlson has frequently used his platform on Fox News to amplify conspiracy theories, most recently broadcasting innuendo about the business dealings of former Vice President's son, Hunter Biden.

He's previously claimed it was "pretty weird" that President Trump caught Covid-19 so close to the election.

And he's hosted people on his nightly show who have claimed the virus was man-made in a Chinese lab.

"We believe those documents are authentic, they're real," he said on air last night. "And they're damning."

But Carlson said that when the network received the documents, he was in California - so he asked a producer in New York to send them by overnight courier.

He claims the documents never arrived, and that the shipping company had told them the package had been opened and the papers were missing.

Staring deeply into the camera, a very serious expression on his face, Carlson said the shipping company, is "baffled and deeply concerned" about the whereabouts of the "trove of documents...that are directly relevant to the Presidential campaign".

Almost immediately after the broadcast last night, Carlson faced a barrage of mockery online.

The most illuminating moment of the Presidential debate

When the president tried to raise the subject of Hunter in the last debate, he did manage to push his opponent into a moment of astonishing vulnerability.

But instead of making Biden look disoriented or feeble, Trump’s attack evoked the sort of raw compassion and pure paternal love that campaign-advertising brains would kill to capture in a 30-second spot.

But as Rupert Murdoch’s outlets and the president himself continue to flog the scandal, spare a moment for Hunter Biden—a man who is recovering from addiction, a brother whose misery is the apparent shame of having survived his siblings, a son who is now the bludgeon that enemies hope will destroy his father.

He is being sacrificed to a president who views the sadistic exploitation of a family’s tragedy as his own best hope of salvation. In its grotesqueness, this is a near-perfect closing argument, a presidency distilled.