In mid-2011, Tucker Carlson’s digital media outlet The Daily Caller was looking for money, and it turned to one of the biggest conservative donors in the country. The conservative news site hit up aides to New York hedge-fund manager Paul Singer with a pitch for its new nonprofit arm, The Daily Caller
Singer’s team rebuffed the request. But emails obtained by The Daily Beast show that Daily Caller staff, including its co-founder and publisher Neil Patel, circled back with Singer’s family office on numerous other occasions over the subsequent four years asking for meetings and courting Singer’s financial support.
“Why is it still allowed in this country? Because people like Paul Singer have tremendous influence over our political process,” Carlson said in one segment. “Singer himself was the second biggest donor to the Republican Party in 2016. He’s given millions to a super PAC that supports Republican senators. You may never have heard of Paul Singer. But in Washington, he’s rock-star famous.”
The Daily Caller’s appeals began in June 2011, when Patel reached out to Singer’s office to arrange a meeting with Carlson. “We think what we are doing is having a big impact, especially on a per dollar basis,” he wrote. “We are also building out a real business with a direct ad sales team. Therefore, unlike most political dealings, an investment with us offers some hope of a return and maybe a very good one. We would love to discuss this at your convenience.
In the years since his departure from the Caller, Carlson has become arguably the most prominent voice in media for a new brand of conservatism that hews more toward policies embodied by the Trump presidency—a more restrictionist immigration policy, skepticism of free trade—and largely opposed by significant segments of the business community that have traditionally provided Republicans with much of their financial support.
In an interview Wednesday with Ned Ryun, a conservative activist who runs the nonprofit American Majority and a sister dark-money group, American Majority Action, Carlson agreed that no “self-respecting conservative” should take money from Singer or the political donor network associated with libertarian billionaire Charles Koch and his late brother David.
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