Tucker Carlson says the man he’s accused of assaulting at a Virginia country club called his teenage daughter a ‘w—-‘

Tucker
Carlson

Tucker
Carlson, host of ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ speaks onstage with
Nicholas Carlson at IGNITION: Future of Media at Time Warner
Center on November 29, 2017 in New York
City.

• After the celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti accused Fox
  News host Tucker Carlson of assaulting a “gay Latino immigrant,”
  Carlson said in a statement to Business Insider that he never
  assaulted the man and that the individual called his teenage
  daugher a “w—-.”
• Avenatti wrote on Twitter that the incident occurred at a
  club in Virginia last month.
• Avenatti included a video with the tweet that he claims
  documents a portion of the alleged assault. The footage appears
  to show Carlson telling another man to “get the f–k out of here”
  while others seem to be trying to get Carlson and others in the
  room to calm down.
• The video does not appear to show Carlson physically
  assaulting anyone.

After the attorney Michael Avenatti said he was investigating a
claim that the Fox News host Tucker Carlson “assaulted” a “gay
Latino immigrant,” Carlson responded that he did not assault the
man and that the individual called his 19-year-old daughter a
“w—-.”

Avenatti wrote on Twitter that the incident occurred at a club in
Virginia last month.

Avenatti included a video with the tweet that he claims documents
a portion of the alleged assault. The footage appears to show
Carlson telling another man to “get the f–k out of here” while
others seem to be trying to get Carlson and others in the room to
calm down.

The video does not appear to show Carlson physically assaulting
anyone.

At one point in the video, a man is heard saying, “There’s no
excuse for violence.”

In a statement to Business Insider, Carlson said:

“On October 13, I had dinner with two of my children and some
family friends at the Farmington Country Club in Charlottesville,
Virginia. Toward the end of the meal, my 19-year-old daughter
went to the bathroom with a friend. On their way back through the
bar, a middle aged man stopped my daughter and asked if she was
sitting with Tucker Carlson. My daughter had never seen the man
before. She answered: ‘That’s my dad,’ and pointed to me. The man
responded, ‘Are you Tucker’s w—-?’ He then called her a
‘f—— c—.'”

The statement continued:

“My daughter returned to the table in tears. She soon left the
table and the club. My son, who is also a student, went into the
bar to confront the man. I followed. My son asked the man if he’d
called his sister a ‘whore’ and a ‘cunt.’ The man admitted he
had, and again become profane. My son threw a glass of red wine
in the man’s face and told him to leave the bar, which he soon
did.

Immediately after the incident, I described these events to the
management of the Farmington Country Club. The club spent more
than three weeks investigating the incident. Last week, they
revoked the man’s membership and threw him out of the club.

I love my children. It took enormous self-control not to beat the
man with a chair, which is what I wanted to do. I think any
father can understand the overwhelming rage and shock that I felt
seeing my teenage daughter attacked by a stranger. But I
restrained myself. I did not assault this man, and neither did my
son. That is a lie. Nor did I know the man was gay or Latino, not
that it would have mattered. What happened on October 13 has
nothing to do with identity politics. It was a grotesque
violation of decency. I’ve never seen anything like it in my
life.”

Avenatti did not immediately respond to a request for comment
about Carlson’s response.