Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s obsession with defending Russian President Vladimir Putin and former president Donald Trump hit a new low on Monday’s edition of Carlson’s nightly show. During his opening monologue, Carlson recycled a baseless conspiracy theory that it wasn’t Russia that carried out a cyberattack on the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential campaign and fed tens of thousands of internal emails to WikiLeaks, but instead it was a Democratic insider who stole the emails “from within the building” and “who wanted to show the world how Bernie Sanders was being shafted by the very same corrupt forces in Washington that later shafted Donald Trump.”
Although Carlson didn’t mention that supposed DNC insider by name, the theory he described is commonly associated with Seth Rich, a DNC employee who was murdered in the summer of 2016. Police…
