Barstool Sports’ Dave Portnoy slams Tucker Carlson’s interview with fraudster Larry Sinclair and says his tale of sex with Barack Obama ‘has 0.0% chance of being true’

Barstool Sports activities founder Dave Portnoy has slammed Tucker Carlson’s current interview with a convicted con artist who claimed to have had drug-fueled intercourse with Barack Obama, saying the wild story can’t be believed.

On Wednesday, Carlson aired his interview with Larry Sinclair, who has for years claimed with none proof that he used cocaine and had intercourse with Obama twice in 1999. 

In a publish on X, Portnoy revealed that he really met Sinclair at Carlson’s studio whereas taping his personal current interview with the fired Fox News host, who now produces his personal present on the Elon Musk-owned social media web site. 

‘I’d belief Anna Delvey earlier than I trusted something Larry Sinclair stated,’ stated Portnoy, referring to the infamous ‘pretend heiress’ who was convicted of scamming and defrauding New York’s upper-crust social scene.

Portnoy added of Sinclair: ‘Prime to backside possibly the least reliable human I’ve ever laid eyes on. I’d say his story has 0.0% [chance] of being true and that’s beneficiant.’

Barstool Sports activities founder Dave Portnoy has slammed Tucker Carlson’s current interview with Larry Sinclair, saying ‘his story has 0.0% [chance] of being true and that’s beneficiant’

Carlson on Wednesday aired his interview with Larry Sinclair , who has for years claimed with none proof that he used cocaine and had intercourse with Obama twice in 1999

Sinclair has a prolonged legal historical past, together with convictions on forgery, fraud and larceny expenses, and has served jail time in Arizona, Florida and Colorado. 

Portnoy, who appeared with Carlson in an interview that aired simply final week, shouldn’t be the one one questioning the pundit’s determination to revive Sinclair’s longstanding unproven claims.

Musk, who has publicly cheered Carlson for airing his segments on X after he was fired by Fox Information in April, additionally expressed skepticism about his interview with Sinclair.

In a publish on X, Musk called Sinclair’s background ‘dubious,’ and pointed on the market was no proof.

‘After all, the chance that his claims are true must relaxation on goal proof, relatively than claims made by somebody with a doubtful historical past,’ Musk tweeted.

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Elon Musk was additionally skeptical concerning the worth of Carlson’s interview

Conservative columnist Tim Stanley questioned whether or not Carlson (above) had change into ‘the Proper’s Hugh Hefner, a purveyor of Playboy-esque trash underneath the guise of goal inquiry

Larry Sinclair, who claims he carried out a sexual act on Barack Obama, poses with girls at Trump Nationwide Doral Miami in a photograph he posted on October 12, 2019

Within the Carlson interview, he shared the identical important allegations that he did 15 years in the past.

Sinclair claims he met Obama, then an Illinois state senator, by a limousine driver in Chicago in 1999, and the 2 used cocaine and had a sexual encounter at the back of the car.

Sinclair additionally claims that Obama, unannounced, visited the Consolation Inn motel the place he was staying in Gurnee, Illinois, the next day, they usually repeated the routine.

A spokesperson for Obama’s private workplace has not responded to repeated requests for remark from DailyMail.com this week.

In 2008, when Sinclair first aired his claims, Politico reported on the saga, noting that the ‘story has typically been ignored by the mainstream media, as a result of he’s been unable to substantiate his allegations.’ 

In June 2008, Sinclair rented a room on the Nationwide Press Membership in Washington, DC, and spoke for an hour, going into nice element about two sexual liaisons he claimed to have had with Obama in 1999. 

The press convention led to Sinclair’s arrest on an open warrant from Delaware, after liberal bloggers who supported Obama apparently tipped off DC police to his scheduled look.

For greater than a decade, Sinclair’s claims have been taken significantly solely by the furthest fringe of conspiracy theorists, and had largely receded from public discourse.

Sinclair notoriously failed a lie detector check in 2008 after which publicly accused Obama adviser David Axelrod of bribing the examiners to rig the outcomes, in accordance with Courthouse News Service.

Sinclair’s historical past of sworn statements can also be doubtful. In 2004, he signed an affidavit claiming to be ‘terminally ailing’ as he sought to have a warrant dismissed, though practically twenty years later he seems to nonetheless be alive. 

Barack Obama is seen in March 2000, in Chicago when he was a state senator

In June 2008, Sinclair rented a room on the Nationwide Press Membership in Washington DC, and spoke for an hour about his claims. He’s seen above on the press convention 

Carlson was fired by Fox News in April, and has since been producing his personal present on X, the web site previously generally known as Twitter.

The pundit has claimed he was fired as a situation of Fox Information’ $787 million settlement with Dominion Voting Programs to finish a lawsuit in regards to the unfold of lies concerning the 2020 presidential election.

Different media reviews have claimed Carlson was fired over incendiary communications uncovered throughout the lawsuit. 

Non-public messages despatched by Carlson with ‘extremely offensive and crude remarks’ have been a ‘catalyst’ in Fox’s determination to chop him free, in accordance with the New York Occasions.

One redacted message included a slur in opposition to a senior Fox government, the Wall Avenue Journal and the Washington Publish each reported. Every of the reviews relied on sources that weren’t named.