Politics
NEW: Tucker Carlson’s Legal Battles Just Took A Bizarre Turn
Attorneys for Tucker Carlson have delivered a cease-and-desist letter to a political action committee intended to draft the former Fox News host into the race for president.
On Tuesday, Carlson’s attorney Harmeet Dhillon released a letter, obtained by Mediaite, that asks the PAC to stop soliciting funds intended to draw Carlson into the 2024 campaign.
“It has come to Mr. Carlson’s attention that you are soliciting contributions and donor contact information from the public by representing that the funds will be used to draft Mr. Tucker to run for President in 2024,” Dhillon wrote.
“Mr. Carlson will not run for President in 2024 under any circumstances, and therefore your misrepresentations are damaging to Mr. Carlson and defrauding his supporters,” she continued. “If you do not immediately cease and desist your efforts to solicit money to ‘draft’ Mr. Carlson, we will use every legal means at our disposal to vindicate his rights and protect his supporters from these misrepresentations.”
According to FEC records, the “Draft Tucker PAC” was formed shortly after Carlson’s dismissal from Fox on April 24th. Operatives at the PAC include Executive Director Charlie Kolean, a Dallas-based GOP consultant, and Treasurer Elizabeth Curtis.
Dhillon said legal action against the PAC is not off the table if Kolean and Curtis refuse to suspend their fundraising activities.
“Mr. Carlson does not want his supporters to be fooled into sending their hard-earned money and contact information to a project run in his name that he does not support and that has no chance of succeeding in its stated aims, and thus will necessarily be using the funds and donor data for other, undisclosed purposes,” Dhillon concluded. “If you do not voluntarily stop your ‘Draft Tucker’ effort, we will use every legal option to prevent the misappropriation of Mr. Carlson’s name, likeness, and image, and to protect his supporters from fraud.”