Fox News host Tucker Carlson got into a heated debate Wednesday night with a Huffington Post writer who argued that President-elect Donald Trump should be stripped of the presidency and replaced by Hillary Clinton.
Alex Mohajer is a political writer and commentator for the Huffington Post and is the founder and editor in chief of Bros4America, a progressive advocacy organization. Carlson brought Mohajer on his show to discuss the writer's most recent article, "The Legitimate President," which argues that federal courts should step in to block Trump from becoming president. Mohajer also wrote that the courts should replace Trump with failed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
Carlson started off the interview by asking Mohajer to explain the reasoning behind his controversial article.
"There are legitimate questions to the way that Donald Trump won the election," said Mohajer, who referenced FBI Director James Comey's late October letter reopening the Clinton email probe, Clinton's victory in the popular vote, and Russia's hacking into Democratic political organizations to explain why Trump should not be viewed as a legitimate president.
In his piece, Mohajer cites a 1987 article from the Executive Intelligence Review, a publication founded by Lyndon LaRouche, a political activist who Carlson described as an anti-Semite.
"You put up as your evidence, this piece of propaganda from the Lyndon LaRouche newsletter," Carlson said. "Do you really think that's a legitimate news source?"
Mohajer did not respond to Carlson's question and instead pivoted to attacking Carlson's role as founder of the Daily Caller.
"Are you saying you are an illegitimate journalist? You had some pretty racist, terrible junk on that website," Mohajer said. Carlson challenged Mohajer to point to evidence that the Daily Caller published racist material, but Mohajer was unable to come up with any specific examples.
Carlson, who appeared exasperated that Mohajer would continue to cite the LaRouche newsletter as a legitimate news source, threatened to end the interview at one point.
"It's a piece by a lunatic, Alex," Carlson said when Mohajer repeatedly defended using the Executive Intelligence Review as a news source.
Mohajer continued to defend his article, which eventually led Carlson to call the writer a "crackpot" and lambast the Huffington Post for allowing him to write for their website.
"Shame on the Huffington Post for printing your garbage," Carlson said.
Carlson at the end of the interview could not help but laugh at Mohajer's defense of his article.