On Tuesday night, for example, Carlson claimed President Joe Biden was actually the aggressor, and was secretly setting up a conflict with Russia to “make a play against fossil fuels.”
Carlson, who has admitted to lying, also claimed Ukraine was being managed by the U.S. State Department and offered this weird defense of Putin:
Colbert noted the economic sanctions imposed on Putin and Russia in the wake of the invasion limited the nation’s access to Western funding sources.
“So that means no Russian money can come into the U.S.,” Colbert said. “There goes Tucker Carlson’s sponsors.”
See more in his Tuesday night monologue: