Someone Tried To Recruit Tucker Carlson To Run For President. Here’s What He Said

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson responded — through his attorney – to a PAC that attempted to draft him for a 2024 presidential run, and he made it absolutely clear that he was not interested.

Carlson’s attorney Harmeet Dhillon sent the Draft Tucker PAC a cease and desist letter, which was obtained by Mediaite, demanding that they stop raising funds using Carlson’s name.

“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, adding, “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.”

“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,” the letter continued.

The PAC, according to a report from The Hill, was formed by Chris Ekstrom — a GOP donor and former congressional candidate in Texas – and filed the necessary Federal Election Commission (FEC) paperwork in late April following Carlson’s ouster from Fox News.

Ekstrom said that he wanted to draft Carlson because he worried that neither of the two likely frontrunners in the 2024 Republican primary – former President Donald Trump, who has already begun his campaign and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is expected to announce a campaign in the coming days — would push the party far enough to the right.

“I’m very concerned that they’re going to not move the debate as far right as it ought to be,” Ekstrom told The Hill last Friday. “If Tucker Carlson entered the race in a reasonable amount of time and just continued in the same territory that he was covering at Fox, I think that’d be a rude awakening for both President Trump and Governor DeSantis.”

Dodgers Re-Invite ‘Queer And Trans Nuns’ Troupe With An Apology

The Los Angeles Dodgers are back to welcoming a drag troupe of “queer and trans nuns” to their annual Pride Night celebration at a home game in June — and they threw in an apology.

Less than a week after disinviting the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a move which pleased offended Catholics but upset LGBT organizations, the Major League Baseball (MLB) team announced on Monday that it had reconsidered that decision.

“After much thoughtful feedback from our diverse communities, honest conversations within the Los Angeles Dodgers organization and generous discussions with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the Los Angeles Dodgers would like to offer our sincerest apologies to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, members of the LGBTQ+ community and their friends and families,” the Dodgers said in a statement.

“We have asked the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to take their place on the field at our 10th annual LGBTQ+ Pride Night on June 16th,” the team added. “We are pleased to share that they have agreed to receive the gratitude of our collective communities for the lifesaving work that they have done tirelessly for decades.”

The announcement marks another turnaround for the Dodgers regarding the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, which calls itself the “leading-edge Order of queer and trans nuns” in San Francisco and has a chapter in L.A.

In a statement last week, the team said it decided to disinvite the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, which had been slated to receive a Community Hero Award, because of “the strong feelings of people who have been offended by the sisters’ inclusion in our evening” and in “an effort not to distract from the great benefits that we have seen over the years of Pride.”

Catholic organizations had been pushing for the team to pull the invitation, saying the group of drag queens who dress up as nuns are an insult to their faith. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) had even written to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, questioning how the league could be “inclusive and welcoming” to Christians while also having a team honor a group “that mocks Christians through diabolical parodies of our faith.”

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, which claims not to be anti-Catholic, says its members use “humor and irreverent wit to expose the forces of bigotry, complacency, and guilt that chain the human spirit” while promoting human rights and diversity.

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Groups such as LA Pride, which produces the annual LA Pride Parade and Festival, and Los Angeles LGBT Center declared they would skip Pride Night in protest of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence being disinvited. And, over the weekend, Anaheim Mayor Ashleigh Aitken invited the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to join her for a Pride Night being held by the Anaheim Angels.

“In the weeks ahead, we will continue to work with our LGBTQ+ partners to better educate ourselves, find ways to strengthen the ties that bind and use our platform to support all of our fans who make up the diversity of the Dodgers family,” the Dodgers said in the statement on Monday.