Tucker Carlson wanted to interview Johnson: the former British Prime Minister agreed, but there was a nuance

Boris Johnson agreed to an interview with Carlson, but with nuance/Collage 24 Channel (photo by Getty Images and from open sources)

American propagandist Tucker Carlson offered to interview former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. At first, the former British head of government agreed to the conversation.

Journalists from The Guardian noted that the interview was supposed to take place for a fee, which Johnson would give to the Ukrainians for charity. However, in the end, the former head of the British government refused to talk with the American propagandist.

Johnson was supposed to give an interview to Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson told right-wing news channel Blaze TV that Boris Johnson initially agreed to an interview with him. The American presenter said he sent the invitation after he was “angry” that Johnson had denounced him as a Kremlin puppet following his controversial interview with Putin.

The American TV presenter claimed that Johnson allegedly demanded US$1 million from him. However, the former head of the United Kingdom government rejected this statement as untrue, saying that Carlson had proposed this amount, and Johnson would have given the money to charity for Ukrainian veterans.

Carlson claimed, that a member of Johnson's team said that “it will cost you 1 million US dollars, and then he will explain his position on Ukraine.”

“I’m not defending Putin, but he didn’t ask for $1 million… This whole thing has been a terrible shake-up,” said Tucker Carlson.

The propagandist said that if “you earn money in the war, you know you can deal with God about it” and called Johnson's alleged action “immoral.” At the same time, Boris Johnson's press secretary said that the information said by Tucker Carlson was not true.

Johnson refused conversation after Navalny's death

Journalists from The Guardian noted that Boris Johnson decided not to continue the debate with Carlson after the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, for which many blame the Kremlin.

This, according to the authors of the material, was the latest flare-up in the dispute between the men after Johnson branded Carlson a “traitor to journalism” after his interview with the Russian president.

Johnson said the host betrayed “viewers and listeners around the world” for not accusing Putin of “torture, rape of civilians, bombing of kindergartens” in Ukraine.