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Tucker Carlson Interviews Nikola Founder on Alleged Short Seller Conspiracy and DOJ Involvement

Published July 23, 2025 | Video Starts at 22:48

So if I go to your employees and pay them for incident information on your company and then invest in the company, I go to prison because that's called inside trading. Yes. But if I go and pay your employees for bad information and bet against your company, that's legal. It's still inside it and still inside trading. But yes, it is the gov. But the prosecutors look the other way. We actually presented them. Wait, is that really real? (22:48–22:55)

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“I have never heard anything like what happened to Trevor Milton.”
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“You often hear the phrase miscarriage of justice.”
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“I think those of us who felt that, you know, this was the most just country in the world will have our preconceptions adjusted.”
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“I'm pretty opposed to electric vehicles generally, but for hauling stuff. Yeah, it's beyond the difference is just crazy.”
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“It's banned in a lot of countries.”
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“We've had it since 2007.”
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“If I go to your employees and pay them for incident information on your company and then invest in the company, I go to prison because…”
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“Martha Stewart went to prison.”
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“Nate Anderson produces a report attacking you A hit piece on you designed to drive your share price down because he's bet against your share…”
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“The Southern District of New York, the federal prosecutors in New York had, as far as, you know, no intention of investigating or…”
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“You're not supposed to be prosecuted so some guy can profit from your prosecution.”
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“You don't believe the Department of Justice had any plans to screw with you? Investigate, indict, bring you to trial, anything, until they…”
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“Nate Anderson did Hindenburg.”
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“And Nate Anderson and Hindenburg get rich.”
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“And they're all profiting from this with insider information.”
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“I'm just ask one more time you are you positive that Hindenburg paid your employees for information about your company?”
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“Justice in the United States and all civilized countries is administered by the state on behalf of the population.”
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“The idea that a private investor could be driving a prosecution in order to benefit from it makes a mockery of the idea of justice.”
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“Shareholders lost tens of billions of dollars.”
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“You paid Kirkland $80 million.”
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“And Kirkland made 100 million.”
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“Hindenburg works with Bloomberg and cnbc.”
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“So the short seller uses, like, has a formal relationship with the media.”
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“Our financial system works in tandem with our justice system and our media establishment to make a few people rich while destroying so much…”
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“Bloomberg was working with the short.”
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“Do you think Bloomberg or CNBC took money from Nate Anderson?”
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“That Bloomberg allows that.”
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“The fact that media organizations, business networks are working with short sellers who profit from attacking people is just, I mean, so…”
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“Back to the playbook that the US Government, in conjunction with the media and the short sellers ran on you.”
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“There's a shocking level of coordination between major institutions in our society that are not supposed to be coordinating with each other.”
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“If Nate Anderson is texting federal prosecutors, that right there should trigger a criminal investigation.”
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“They didn't have jobs or on Welfare.”
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“Not all the jury of your peers. Promise.”
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“She served on the jury and voted for your convention.”
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“You're sitting before a jury of racists who hate you for being white and rich and say so and lie.”
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