EXCLUSIVE: In a 12-month period beginning in June 2024,
@Heritage
spent ~$1.2 million sponsoring
@TuckerCarlson
(17 eps @ reported $75K/ep), but nothing after Operation Midnight Hammer.
For context, in 3 years from 2021 - 2023, Heritage spent a TOTAL of $240K on media ads, per its own audited financial statements (receipts below) -- or 1/5th of what Heritage spent on Tucker in just 12 months.
The first six months of sponsoring
@TCNetwork
(9 eps total) accounted for almost the entirety of Heritage Foundation's 775% increase in media ad spending from 2023 to 2024 (~$675K out of $733K, or 92%).
But just five days after the final episode Heritage sponsored -- featuring hard Left, longtime UN advisor & pro-Chinese Communist Party advocate Jeffrey Sachs -- Trump famously slammed "kooky Tucker Carlson."
The episodes Heritage sponsored were mostly interviews of mainstream conservatives.
But not the final one.
On June 11, Heritage sponsored Tucker's interview of longtime UN advisor & overt Israel-hater Jeffrey Sachs, whose main purpose seemingly was to whitewash Iran (and Qatar), right on the eve of Israel's strikes against the Mullah's regime.
Shortly thereafter, on June 22, Trump ordered the U.S. strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, known as Operation Midnight Hammer.
Not one American life was lost, despite Tucker's very public claims that such a U.S. strike would trigger WWIII.
Heritage hasn't sponsored a single episode since