Buckley Carlson, the 28-year-old son of far-right pundit Tucker Carlson, will serve as Vice President JD Vance’s deputy press secretary, according to ABC News. The political scion has spent the past five years as a Capitol Hill aide, where he most recently served as deputy chief of staff to Republican Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana.
Despite his connection to Republican politics, Washington DC voting records show Tucker Carlson registered as a Democrat in 2015, when Hillary Clinton was running against Donald Trump, though his voter status is listed as inactive.
Tucker Carlson actively supported President Donald Trump on the 2024 campaign trail, despite telling colleagues the reelected president was a “demonic force” Carlson couldn’t wait to have out of his life, according to text messages obtained by Dominion Voting Systems in a defamation lawsuit against Carlson’s former employers at Fox News.
The right-wing media company settled that suit for $787.5 million in 2023. The 55-year-old pundit — who claimed in a recently released documentary to be on the mend following a demon attack that occurred while he was sleeping — was cut loose immediately after that deal was reached.
Buckley Carlson graduated from the University of Virginia in 2019. His protective father reportedly called a Washington Post columnist a “soulless ghoul” in 2022 when that publication ran an article suggesting Buckley Carlson got a job on Capitol Hill due to nepotism.
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Tucker Carlson claimed he was in contact with one of his children, presumed to be his son rather than his three daughters, who was in the Capitol when it was invaded by MAGA supporters on January 6, 2021.
“I was on the phone in real time,” he told The Fourth Watch Podcast later that year.
After Trump and Tucker Carlson made amends, Trump said he could see the two of them as running mates.
“I like Tucker a lot,” he told The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show in 2023.
That job went to Vance, 40, who is now the third-youngest person to serve as US vice president. James Buchanan’s 36-year-old running mate, John Breckenridge, was the youngest.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News (TNS)
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