Kanye West And Tucker Carlson Interview Leaker Gets Indicted On 14 Charges

BYLavender AlexandriaPublished on February 23, 20245.8K Views

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INDIO, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 20: Kanye West performs during 2019 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival on April 20, 2019 in Indio, California. (Photo by Timothy Norris/Getty Images for Coachella)

The charges reportedly relate to his leaking of the unaired clips.

Back in 2022, Kanye West spent months making appearances on numerous talk shows where he was allowed to spout antisemitic conspiracies. One of those interviews was with Tucker Carlson, who was occupying the main slot on Fox News at the time. A segment did air where the pair had a conversation about West's beliefs and some of the pushback he's received for expressing them. But not everything they recorded during their time together made it onto the on air version of the interview.

Shorty after the interview aired the parts that didn't make it to broadcast leaked online. The clips were a particularly bad look for both West and Carlson and it made sense why they were cut in the first place. But recently, a journalist who was involved with the leaking of the videos in the first place was indicted on numerous charges reportedly stemming from the leak. Tim Burke is a journalist in Tampa whose house was recently raided by the FBI. Following the raid he was hit with numerous counts of accessing a computer without permission and intercepting electronic communications. The Tampa Bay Times confirmed that the arrest stemmed from the West interview leak. Check out one of the most viral clips from the original interview below.

Man Who Leaked Kanye West's Tucker Carlson Interview Arrested

Kanye West is currently in Italy for a pair of listening parties. He released his new album VULTURES 1 with Ty Dolla $ign earlier this month. The project faced numerous delays but eventually arrived in full. Subsequently it sold enough copies to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 in its first week. That was in spire of the album being blasted by most of the critics who covered it.

What do you think of the man who leaked the unaired material from Kanye West and Tucker Carlson's interview being indicted? Do you think he was right to release the cut material to the public? Let us know in the comment section below.

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Lavender Alexandria is a music and culture journalist based in Los Angeles, California. She’s covered dozens of musical genres and styles from the most mainstream to the most experimental and underground on her blog and accompanying YouTube channel that looks at music, pop culture, and Billboard charts since 2017: Lav’s Music Corner. Lavender has produced editorial and listicle content both in written and video form over the past far years and has also interviewed up-and-coming artists like Censored Dialogue. Her experiences covering culture have taken her from Hyperpop parties in LA to underground rap shows in Atlanta, to DIY punk shows in Charlotte. Lavender has also written for iHeartRadio, covering some of the biggest artists in Hip Hop such as Ice Spice, Drake, Doja Cat and Cardi B. She also has bylines with ScreenRant and continues to write for Ringtone magazine. Lavender is a lifelong Charlotte Hornets fan and her favorite rap artists include Clipping, Little Simz, Earl Sweatshirt, and Kendrick Lamar.