Tucker Carlson calls Ukraine “a pure client state of the United States State Department”
Carlson: “We are not mad about that, go ahead and run Ukraine if you think you can do a better job than Ukraine is, just don’t tell us it’s democracy”
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Citation From the February 23, 2022, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): If you subvert the meaning of a word as fundamental as "democracy," maybe you can tamper with the way we live here in the United States, just spitballing for a second. So Ukraine, to be technical, is not a democracy. Democracies don't arrest political opponents and they don't shutdown opposition media, both of which Ukraine has done. And by the way, Ukraine is a pure client state of the United States State Department -- again, that's fine. We are not mad about that, go ahead and run Ukraine if you want if you think you can do a better job than Ukraine is, just don't tell us it's democracy.