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RFK Jr., who just last week launched his 2024 campaign for the Democratic nomination for president, suggested that Carlson’s Fox News exit came because of the host’s recent monologue about pharmaceutical companies

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is weighing in on the bombshell announcement that Tucker Carlson has left Fox News, claiming on Twitter that the exit came because of the right wing personality’s “breathtakingly courageous” monologue about pharmaceutical companies.

Kennedy, who just last week launched his 2024 campaign for the Democratic nomination for president, claimed that Carlson had been “fired” by Fox News, despite the network saying in a statement the two parties had “agreed to part ways.”

“Fox fires @tuckercarlson five days after he crosses the red line by acknowledging that the TV networks pushed a deadly and ineffective vaccine to please their Pharma advertisers,” the 69-year-old nephew of late President John F. Kennedy and son of late U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy wrote on Twitter. “Carlson’s breathtakingly courageous April 19 monologue broke TV’s two biggest rules: Tucker told the truth about how greedy Pharma advertisers controlled TV news content and he lambasted obsequious newscasters for promoting jabs they knew to be lethal and worthless.”

He continued: “For many years, Tucker has had the nation’s biggest audience averaging 3.5 million — 10 times the size of CNN. Fox just demonstrated the terrifying power of Big Pharma.”

The tweet referenced an episode in which Carlson highlighted Kennedy’s presidential campaign and his previous comments about vaccines and criticism of former U.S. top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci‘s handling of the pandemic.

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In a January episode of his show, Carlson compared the vaccination effort during the COVID-19 pandemic to “what the imperial Japanese army and the Nazis did in their medical experiments,” The Guardian reported at the time.

In a statement on Monday morning, Fox News said the network and Carlson “have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.”

Carlson’s last program was Friday. Beginning Monday evening, the network will air Fox News Tonight as an interim show helmed by rotating Fox News personalities until a new host is determined.