Fox News star Tucker Carlson is host to one of the highest-rated news programs in the country.
His opinion is trusted by millions of viewers that tune into his show night after night.
Even he makes mistakes. This mistake, he said Wednesday, was trusting a “large national carrier” with sensitive documents.
Carlson admitted on Wednesday that “damning” documents involving Hunter Biden and his father, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, have gone missing.
“There is always a lot going on that we don’t have time to get to on the air, but there is something specific going on behind the screens that we did feel like we should tell you about,” Carlson said.
“So, on Monday of this week, we received from a source a collection of confidential documents related to the Biden family,” he said. “We believe they are authentic, they’re real, and they’re damning.”
Carlson was in Los Angeles at the time, preparing to interview Hunter Biden’s former business partner.
“We texted a producer in New York and asked him to send those documents to us in L.A. And he did that, so Monday afternoon of this week, he shipped the documents overnight to California with a large national carrier,” he said. “A brand-name company that we’ve used — you’ve used — countless times with never a single problem.”
“But the Biden documents never arrived in Los Angeles,” Carlson said. The package was opened and discovered empty while in transit on Tuesday morning.
“The company security team interviewed every one of its employees who touched the envelope we sent. They searched the plane and the trucks that carried it. They went through the office in New York where our producer dropped that package off,” the Fox News star said. “They combed the entire cavernous sorting facility. And they used pictures of what we had sent, so that searchers would know what to look for.”
The documents have vanished, Carlson said.
“As of tonight, the company has no idea and no working theory either about what happened to this trove of materials,” he said. “Documents that are directly relevant to the presidential campaign just six days from now.”
However, viewers noticed that Carlson never once said the missing documents were his only copies.
You can watch the segment for yourself below —
Damning Hunter Biden documents suddenly vanish pic.twitter.com/B2qsajZlID
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) October 29, 2020