Tucker was the hot girl that didn't want to f*ck him, an ex-White House official said. Carlson playing hard-to-get apparently intrigued Trump, the official added, and made him more alluring. Trump wasn't the only one watching Tucker Carlson Tonight religiously at the time. The show set a cable news record when it averaged 5.36 million viewers in October 2020, and it routinely averaged more than 4 million viewers per month.
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