Tucker Carlson, the well-known host for Fox News, was unexpectedly fired from Fox News on April 21, 2023. As this question may spark many rumors, there are a few possible reasons why Carlson has been fired, but none of which are plausible. 

Due to his dismissal coming just a few days after Fox settled a high-profile lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems, it is anything but a coincidence. This lawsuit came from the election tech company detecting fraud from the 2020 presidential race. Dominion asked for $1.6 billion, but the parties only came to offer about half. 

“[It] represents vindication and accountability,” Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson said. “Lies have consequences.”

What does this have to do with Carlson?

Abby Grossberg, an ex-producer and former senior booker for Fox News, claims to have been “set up” into giving false testimony for the legal battle, the Dominion case, that Fox is still facing: She and Ms. Bartiromo were to take the blame for its repeated airing of conspiracy theories about the Dominion Voting Systems. Not only this, but she is suing Fox for being “an environment that excuses misogyny and anti-Semitism” behind the scenes. Carlson’s staff joked about Jews and used a vulgar term for women, according to her complaint. 

Not only this, but Carlson has been reported about making marks against immigration, claiming “it makes our own country poorer, and dirtier, and more divided.”

He’s called white supremacy a “hoax” and dismissed hate speech as a “made-up category designed to gut the First Amendment and shut you up.”

However, these reasons may or may not explain his firing, as they were his reported actions up until the Dominion case. Fox News didn’t provide any further information on it, but said, “We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.” 

CNN reporter Oliver Darcy tried to squeeze information out of Carlson privately, but it was useless. 

“Carlson also offered no comment on Monday, ignoring my many texts and phone calls seeking information,” reporter Darcy said. 

Carlson is described as “not a team player” but rather “uncontrollable.” He is also regularly negative towards the Fox cycle. He made a politically disputable comment in a new video he uploaded onto his Twitter a week after he was fired, only marking the start of an entirely new controversy he’d be starting. 

“The other thing you notice when you take a little time off is how unbelievably stupid most of the debates you see on television are,” Carlson said. “They’re completely irrelevant. They mean nothing. In five years we won’t even remember we heard them. Trust me, as somebody who participated.”