However, he said on Fox News on Tuesday that this was “an FBI operation to drive a duly elected president from office.”
Carlson made the statement during a nearly 20-minute segment about the discovery of classified documents in the private office that President Joe Biden used while serving as vice president. The segment included a clip of a media figure telling the story of the discovery of classified documents at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home last year.
Carlson laughed after playing the clip.
“The funniest part is that Bernstein, an official from the Washington Post, was literally involved in an FBI operation — no guess, documented — an FBI operation to drive a duly elected president from office,” he said. “Carl Bernstein was involved in it.”
One of Woodward and Bernstein’s most famous sources during Watergate was the mysterious figure known only for a few decades as Deep Throat.
Despite this, Carlson has tried to rewrite the history of the scandal, saying last year that “no one can explain it”.
“This is clearly being pushed by government agencies, including the FBI,” Carlson said in September.