The United States attempted to assassinate Vladimir Putin during Joe Biden‘s presidency, according to a shocking claim by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
Political commentator Carlson, who last year travelled to Moscow for a lengthy sit-down interview with the Russian President – dropped the bombshell allegation during an episode of ‘The Tucker Carlson Show’ with US journalist Matt Taibbi.
‘[Ex-US Secretary of State] Tony Blinken was pushing so hard for a real war, trying to kill Putin, for example – which the Biden administration did, they tried to kill Putin.
‘Yes. Yes, they did. Which is insane,’ Carlson said in his most recent episode, hosted on social media platform X.
Without providing evidence for his claim, Carlson went on to imagine a scenario in which the US was successful.
‘If like [Putin was assassinated]… okay, so who takes over Russia?
‘And what happens to the nuclear arsenal in a country that’s, like, so complex outsiders can’t even understand?’
‘[It is] demented that you would even think of something like that’.
Political commentator Carlson, who last year travelled to Moscow for a lengthy sit-down interview with the Russian President – dropped the bombshell allegation during an episode of ‘The Tucker Carlson Show’ with US journalist Matt Taibbi
President Vladimir Putin speaks during the meeting of the board of trustees at the Moscow State University on January 24, 2025
Former U.S. President Joe Biden listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC
US political commentator and journalist Carlson Tucker claims the Joe Biden administration ‘tried to kill Vladimir Putin’. Pictured with Vladimir Putin in February 2024
The outlandish statements by the ex-Fox News host were quickly seized upon this morning by pro-Putin propagandists in Moscow.
Prominent Russian war pundit Sergei Mardan said: ‘The Biden administration planned to kill Putin.
‘That’s what Tucker Carlson says.
‘According to him, this was insisted on by former Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who, according to Carlson, essentially concentrated control of the administration in his hands under the feeble president.
‘It is very likely that this was the case,’ Mardan said.
‘Blinken has always been a particularly stubborn person who is, in principle, ready to fight not only to the last [Ukrainian], but also to the penultimate American.
‘Ahead of us awaits many more terrible revelations about the activities of the previous US administration and the decision-making mechanisms in the White House under Biden.’
In February 2024, Carlson interviewed Putin who suggested that the US government was secretly controlled by the CIA rather than elected officials – and blamed the West for prolonging the war.
Last month Carlson also interviewed Putin’s long-serving foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, just weeks after Russia launched a developmental hypersonic missile to strike energy infrastructure in Ukraine’s Dnipro region.
Lavrov declared Russia will ‘keep sending messages’ in the form of devastating strikes on Ukraine if Western officials continue their course of action in supporting Kyiv.
He said that Moscow doesn’t want a war with the United States but will use ‘all means’ to defend its interests and went on to argue that, while Russia and the US are officially not at war, Washington’s permission for Ukraine to use American longer-range missiles for strikes on Russian territory marked a dangerous escalation.
Lavrov (L) is the world’s longest-serving foreign minister who has been on the job for 20 years alongside Putin
When asked about his view of Donald Trump, Lavrov described him as ‘a very strong person, a person who wants results, who doesn’t like procrastination on anything.’
‘It is obvious that the Ukrainians would not be able to do what they’re doing with long-range modern weapons without direct participation of the American servicemen. And this is dangerous, no doubt about this,’ he said, adding that the Western belief that Russia’s red lines could be ‘moved again and again’ is ‘a very serious mistake.’
Lavrov, the world’s longest-serving foreign minister who has been on the job for 20 years, said that the recent Russian strike on Ukraine with a new hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile called Oreshnik was a signal to the West that Russia is prepared to use all means to achieve its goals.
‘The message which we wanted to send by testing in real action this hypersonic system is that we will be ready to do anything to defend our legitimate interests,’ he said.
‘Since some people in Washington, London and Brussels seem not very capable to understand – we will send additional messages if they don’t draw necessary conclusions.’
When asked about his view of Donald Trump, Lavrov described him as ‘a very strong person, a person who wants results, who doesn’t like procrastination on anything.’
But he dismissed the idea that Trump is in any way ‘pro-Russian’, saying that the Kremlin will wait to examine the now-US president’s attitude toward Russia and the Ukraine conflict.
‘He’s very friendly in discussions but this does not mean that he’s pro-Russian as some people try to present him. The amount of sanctions we received under him was very very big.
‘As Putin said, we have been open all along with contacts, with the current administration… we hope that when Donald Trump is inaugurated we will understand.
‘The ball, as Putin said, is on their side.’
