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Tucker Carlson despatched a stop and desist letter to a political action committee fashioned ostensibly to motivate the former Fox News host to run for president in 2024.

The letter, acquired via Mediaite, was once sent by means of Carlson’s legal professional Harmeet Dhillon to the “Draft Tucker PAC,” which was introduced remaining Thursday with an ad set to run all week on Newsmax.

Republicans want a new chief that can stand up to Biden. It’s time to draft Tucker Carlson p.c.twitter.com/FV9s3wxalc

— Draft Tucker Carlson (@DrafttuckerPAC) May 19, 2023

“It has come to Mr. Carlson’s attention that you’re soliciting contributions and donor contact information from the general public by way of representing that the cash will be used to draft Mr. Tucker to run for President in 2024,” Dhillon wrote within the letter.

“Mr. Carlson will not run for President in 2024 below any instances, and due to this fact your misrepresentations are destructive to Mr. Carlson and defrauding his supporters,” she persevered. “If you do not straight away stop and desist your efforts to solicit money to ‘draft’ Mr. Carlson, we will be able to use every prison means at our disposal to vindicate his rights and give protection to his supporters from these misrepresentations.”

Consistent with The Hill, the workforce first filed bureaucracy with the Federal Election Fee again in April, soon after Carlson was once fired via Fox News.

Dhillon repeatedly denied within the letter that Carlson has any plans to run for president in 2024, an election that already has a crowded Republican box that features former President Donald Trump.

“Mr. Carlson is not now, and will not below any instances be, a candidate for President in the 2024 election,” Dhillon wrote. “Mr. Tucker unequivocally disavows your activities. Subsequently, your efforts to raise cash for a ‘draft’ committee are a waste of your time and the cash of every donor to your committee, as you might be on discover that these money will not, actually, be used for the aim said. Nor will the info you’re amassing underneath false pretenses be used for the said function.”

The letter, sent to the PAC’s executive director Charlie Kolean, a GOP operative, and its treasurer Elizabeth Curtis, accused the PAC of fraudulently the usage of Carlson to fundraise despite his making clear that he may not be working for president.

Dhillon additional threatened the PAC with felony action, aggravating its staffers protect all evidence touching on the committee’s efforts.

“Mr. Carlson does now not want his supporters to be fooled into sending their laborious-earned cash and call data to a project run in his title that he does now not reinforce and that has no chance of succeeding in its stated goals, and to that end will necessarily be the use of the money and donor knowledge for different, undisclosed purposes,” Dhillon concluded. “If you do not voluntarily cease your ‘Draft Tucker’ effort, we will use every legal option to prevent the misappropriation of Mr. Carlson’s identify, likeness, and image, and to protect his supporters from fraud.”

Carlson has steadily denied any political ambitions. In a 2020 interview, Mediaite asked Carlson, then the most-watched host in all of cable news, if he was once making an allowance for a run for president in 2024.

“No, I’m not working for anything — come on,” he responded.

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