Liar or moron, those are the available options.
In Tucker’s defense (?) his staffer most familiar with right-wing message boards was fired for his posts on right-wing message boards.
Anyway he should check in with the also-dumb Jesse Watters, who seemed fully aware last year of both QAnon’s “crazy stuff” and its “great stuff.”
Honestly, it is pretty sad to be either worse at research than Jesse Watters, or putting on a big show to that effect.
Any way as usual the story is that Fox News could try to tell its viewers the truth in hopes of deradicalizing them, but chooses not to because everyone there is fine with how this is going.

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