Aaron Rodgers praises Vladimir Putin as 'smart' in Tucker Carlson interview
NFL star Aaron Rodgers praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and railed against Covid-19 vaccines, in a new interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
NFL star Aaron Rodgers praised Russian President Vladimir Putin as an "interesting, smart individual" and railed against Covid vaccines, in a new interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson released Tuesday.
The New York Jets star and Super Bowl-winning quarterback said Carlson's interview with the Russian leader in February, Putin's first interview with any Western media since his forces invaded Ukraine in 2022, was "awesome."
Aaron Rodgers of the New York Jets at Cleveland Browns Stadium in Cleveland on Dec. 28.Cooper Neill / Getty Images file"Putin came off as an interesting, thoughtful, smart individual. And if you’ve read '1984,' the base game plan of government control is you have to have an enemy, and you have to slander that enemy regardless if you know anything about them," Rodgers said.
He went on to favorably compare Putin to President Joe Biden:
"I think a lot of people are like, ‘Oh, Putin apologists are like, whitewashing all the stuff that he’s done to the different people.’ I was just like, no, I’d love to, I’d love to see Joe Biden give an interview where he can speak on the history of the United States in the same way that Putin talked about the history of his country.”
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