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Ciara O'Rourke
By Ciara O'Rourke August 26, 2022

No, this isn’t an authentic video of Tucker Carlson speechless before a guest

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  • This video isn’t authentic, according to Fox News. 
     
  • We found the original video of Dr. Umar Johnson posted on his YouTube page in July 2021. He wasn’t appearing on Carlson’s show, and we found no evidence that he’s ever appeared on the show. 

 

What looks like a clip from Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox News is being shared online with this description: "This Fox News reporter really wasn’t ready to face the facts!"

The video shows a silent Carlson, his mouth slightly open, as Dr. Umar Johnson, who describes himself as a Pan-Afrikanist and psychologist, appears in the adjacent panel.

"Arabs didn’t build America, Black people built America," Johnson says in the video. "Chinese ain’t build America, Black people built America. Jews ain’t build America, Black people built America. Mexicans ain’t build America, Black people built America. Anglo-Saxons ain’t built America, Black people built America. I built America, so don’t talk to me about no damn minority set-asides." 

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A Fox News spokesperson told PolitiFact the video is fake. 

We found the original video of Johnson posted on his YouTube page in July 2021. He wasn’t appearing on Carlson’s show, and we found no evidence that he’s ever appeared on the show. 

Searching for his name on Fox’s website, we got no results. 

We rate claims that his video is authentic False.

 

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