Tucker Carlson said the left is trying to politicize something that happened to him and his daughter just a month, and while he was trying to keep the incident private for his daughter’s sake, he’s now going on the record to explain what happened:
Last month one of my children was attacked by a stranger at dinner. For her sake, I was hoping to keep the incident private. It’s now being politicized by the Left. Here’s what happened: pic.twitter.com/rwNoFYxMFv
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) November 11, 2018
Here’s the explanation he attached to the tweet:
First Antifa attacks his home and now this. It’s absolutely ridiculous. Family members, no matter the age, should be off limits. End of Story.
So who exactly on the left is trying to politicize this? You’ll never guess..
WASHINGTON POST – In a statement released by attorney Michael Avenatti, a country club patron said he may pursue criminal charges against Tucker Carlson after cellphone video showed the Fox News host appearing to threaten him during a scuffle at the bar.
“You better get the f— out of here!” Carlson yells repeatedly in the Oct. 13 video as Juan Manuel Granados sits at the Farmington Country Club bar in Charlottesville. A moment later, an unidentified man standing with Carlson grabs Granados by his collar and appears to yank him up from his seat, at which point bystanders break up the confrontation.
Carlson has not disputed that the incident took place — and even volunteered that his son threw a glass of wine in Granados’s face just before the video began. But the conservative news host denied assaulting Granados and accused him of provoking the scuffle by insulting Carlson’s daughter.
What Avenatti is saying happened to Granados:
In his version, Granados was sitting with a group of friends at the bar and noticed that a woman from Carlson’s table kept walking back and forth to order drinks.
“She was intoxicated,” Avenatti said. He said Granados had been drinking, too, and finally told the woman, without realizing she was Carlson’s daughter: “I can’t believe you’re having dinner with him.”
A little political context: Granados immigrated to the United States from Buenos Aires, according to his biography at the Women’s Initiative — a mental-health provider where he sits on the board of directors. He’s also an LGBTQ rights volunteer in Charlottesville — where a protester was killed at a white nationalist rally last year. Granados sued a sports club several years ago when it refused to give him, his partner and their son a family membership, resulting in a policy change after more than 200,000 people signed a petition to support the gay dads.
But in a statement released Sunday through his attorney, Granados denied provoking anything — let alone insulting Carlson’s daughter or making her cry.
“I NEVER called any member of his family any names,” Granados said. “I never attacked his daughter as Tucker claims. … Tucker has created this story out of thin air — it never happened.”
Rather, Granados said Carlson, Carlson’s son and a third man walked over to the bar after Carlson’s daughter complained to them. Everyone seems to agree that Carlson’s son doused Granados with wine. Avenatti said Granados threw his drink at the son in retaliation.
“Tucker threatened me with physical violence and told me to ‘Go back to where you came from,’ before another patron started filming,” Granados said in his statement.
Here’s the bottom line for me. If Granados actually did nothing wrong here and wanted vindication, he’d go to a real lawyer instead of the dirtbag Michael Avenatti. Rather, it sounds like this ahole just wants to become famous on the left and Avenatti is the quickest way to do that. Plus he knows Avenatti is a scumbag lawyer, so it doesn’t matter if he’s lying or not.