Tucker Carlson Calls Himself a Populist. He Has No Problem Taking Private Equity Money.
Tucker Carlson pitches himself as a tribune of the people. But new documents reveal that he and other media elites get paid top dollar to speak at fancy conferences hosted by private equity firms, some of the most rapacious, anti-worker actors in American capitalism.
Tucker Carlson speaking in West Palm Beach, Florida, in 2018. (Gage Skidmore / Wikimedia Commons)
Tucker Carlson slammed former president Barack Obama in April 2017 for giving a $400,000 paid Wall Street speech, calling it “indefensible.”
“What could the former president possibly say a) that we haven’t heard, b) that would be worth $400,000 for an hour?” the Fox News host asked on his show.
Five months later, Carlson and Obama both spoke at the same conference hosted by the Wall Street giant The Carlyle Group, a private equity colossus.
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