Controversial news personality

Tucker Carlson posted his second video to Twitter last week and Fox News says, “That’s enough.”

The network has sent a strike letter to Carlson’s lawyers,

say assertively

the videos violate Carlson’s contract with Fox News Media, his lawyer said on Twitter.

Fox News declined to comment, but a person familiar with the matter confirmed the action, which was first reported by Axios.

Carlson’s program was canceled on April 24, a week after the Rupert Murdoch-controlled network paid $787.5 million to settle a libel lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems. But the right-wing commentator is still paid by Fox News.

The company believes it can keep him off TV and digital platforms for the duration of the contract, which runs until 2024.

according to people who are familiar with the details of his deal and were not authorized to speak publicly. According to sources, the contract will earn Carlson more than $15 million a year.

Fox News declined to comment.

Carlson announced his Twitter

program

on May 9, even though Elon Musk’s company has no business deal with the host. He has posted two short videos of him giving monologues from his home.

Carlson’s lawyer Harmeet Dhillon said in a statement that Fox News’s action is an attempt to suppress the broadcaster’s views.

Fox News continues to ignore the interests of its viewers, not to mention its shareholder obligations, Dhillon said. Fox doubles down on the most catastrophic programming decision in cable news industry history and is now demanding that Tucker Carlson remain silent until after the 2024 election.

Tucker will not be silenced by anyone, she added.

Known for his inflammatory comments on race and immigration, Carlson was the top-rated primetime host at Fox News before him

What

taken off the air.

Sources told The Times that Carlson’s departure was linked to a discrimination lawsuit brought by Abby Grossberg, a producer fired by the network. She claimed she was bullied and subjected to anti-Semitic remarks while working on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” Fox news

has

reject the claim.

Murdoch made the call to East Carlson.

The former host

starred in the Dominion case against Fox News, which accused the conservative network of knowingly making false claims about the voting equipment company and its role

in

the 2020 presidential election.

The evidence and statements in the Dominion case revealed texts by Carlson critical of Fox News correspondents who fact-checked the network’s baseless election fraud claims, even though

that was revealed

he himself did not believe them.