Tucker Carlson plans to air an interview with the convicted con artist whose baseless claims of drug-related sex acts with Barack Obama have fueled conspiracy theories for more than a decade.
In a promo clip on social media platform X, the fired Fox News host teased the interview with Larry Sinclair, who claims that Obama bought and smoked cocaine with him before they had a sexual encounter in 1999.
Sinclair first made his claims during the 2008 election, including at a farcical press conference that ended in his arrest on an outstanding robbery warrant, but has never provided evidence for his wild accusations.
The teaser clip for the Carlson interview shows Sinclair claiming that in 1999 he gave Obama $250 to buy cocaine, which Sinclair snorted and Obama smoked before the two men had a sexual relationship.
In the clip, Carlson describes Sinclair’s claims about Obama as “credible information that he smokes crack and has sex with dudes.”
Convicted con artist Larry Sinclair (left) will appear on Tucker Carlson’s show on X to revive his longstanding claims of drug-related sex with Barack Obama
A spokesman for Obama’s personal office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from DailyMail.com Tuesday night.
Sinclair has a long criminal history, including convictions for forgery, fraud and robbery, and has served prison sentences in Arizona, Florida and Colorado.
In 2008, when Sinclair first released his allegations, Politics reported on the saga, noting that the “story is generally ignored by the mainstream media because he has been unable to substantiate his allegations.”
In June 2008, Sinclair rented a room at the National Press Club in Washington DC, and spoke for an hour, going into great detail about two sexual encounters he claimed to have had with Obama in 1999, one in the back of a limousine and another. in a hotel room in Gurnee, Illinois.
Sinclair claimed that a limousine driver introduced him to Obama after Sinclair asked for help connecting with someone to “party,” and that Obama, then an Illinois state senator, readily introduced himself using his real name and job title.
The press conference ended Sinclair’s arrest based on an open Delaware warrant for his arrest, after liberal bloggers who supported Obama apparently tipped off the D.C. police about his planned action.
For more than a decade, Sinclair’s claims were only taken seriously by fringe conspiracy theorists, until Carlson revived the long-defunct controversy in a podcast interview last week.
Former US President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama can be seen at the US Open last week. They have been married since 1992 and share two daughters
In June 2008, Sinclair rented a room at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. and spoke about his claims for an hour. He can be seen above at the press conference
Larry Sinclair, who claims he performed a sex act with Barack Obama, poses with women at Trump National Doral Miami in a photo he posted Oct. 12, 2019 from Miami, Florida.
Carlson, 54, said on the popular Adam Carolla Show: “In 2008 it became very clear that Barack Obama had had sex with men and smoked crack.”
“A guy came up, Larry Sinclair, said, ‘I’ll sign an affidavit,’ and he did. “I’ll do a lie detector,” and he did,” he added, calling Sinclair’s claims “plainly true.”
In fact, Sinclair infamously failed the lie detector test in 2008 and then publicly accused Obama adviser David Axelrod of bribing the examiners to manipulate the results. Courthouse News Service.
Sinclair also signed a statement from 2001 he claimed to be “terminally ill” while trying to get an arrest warrant revoked, though he appears to be alive more than 20 years later.
Carlson was fired from Fox News in April and has since been producing his own show on X, the website formerly known as Twitter.
The pundit claims he was fired as a condition of Fox News’ $787 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems to end a lawsuit over the spread of lies about the 2020 presidential election.
Other media reports claim that Carlson was fired due to inflammatory communications that came to light during the trial.
According to the New York Times, private messages from Carlson containing “deeply offensive and abusive comments” were a “catalyst” in Fox’s decision to let him go.
One redacted message contained a libel against a senior Fox executive, the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post both reported. Each of the reports was based on unnamed sources.