Tucker Carlson slams Shepard Smith over Ukraine coverage

Earlier this week, Shepard Smith had some particularly negative words for fellow Fox News personality Tucker Carlson. Now, Tucker is hitting back. 

During a Monday appearance on the network, Judge Andrew Napolitano said if allegations that President Trump asked Ukraine’s leader to investigate Joe Biden in exchange for defense were true, then it would show “an act of corruption.”

Basis of dispute

“I think this is the most serious charge against the president, far more serious than what Bob Mueller dug or dragged up against him,” the judge stated. “If there was a quid pro quo. It does appear as though a quarter of a billion dollars in defensive weaponry was held back for a period of time while these eight conversations were going on between the president.”

What’s more, Napolitano insisted that the lack of a specific quid pro quo wouldn’t exonerate the president.

“IF you are the President of the United States and making a conversation that you know your intelligence community is listening to, of course you’re not going to articulate a quid pro quo. You’ll just make the quid pro quo happen.”

That line of analysis didn’t sit well with former U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova, who called Napolitano “a fool” while appearing as a guest on Carlson’s show.

“Repugnant”

Smith subsequently took to the airwaves and went after diGenova for his choice of words and after Carlson for not pushing back against it. “Attacking our colleague who is here to offer legal assessments on our air, in our work home, is repugnant,” he said.

Neither diGenova nor Carlson took the criticism lying down.

“Well, apparently our daytime host, who hosted Judge Napolitano, was watching last night and was outraged by what you said, and quite ironically, called you ‘partisan,” he remarked on a Wednesday episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight. “Repugnant! Not clear if that was you or me but someone is repugnant,” Carlson said to diGenova, who had returned for yet another appearance on the program.

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After asking diGenova again if he thought Trump had committed a crime, Carlson accused Smith of being unduly motivated by political bias.

“When you dress up news coverage, when you dress up rather partisanship as news coverage and pretend that your angry political opinions are news, people tune out. They know dishonesty when they see it,” he said.