Tucker Carlson says Brazil’s election “was very clearly a rigged election” Carlson: “Their democracy has been hijacked possibly forever” Written by Media Matters Staff Published 01/09/23 8:51 PM EST Video file Citation From the January 9, 2023, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Consider what is happening tonight in Brazil. So, thanks to what was very clearly a rigged election, a convicted criminal called Lula da Silva is now the president of the most important country in South America. Millions of people in Brazil understand exactly what happened. They know their democracy has been hijacked possibly forever. But there's not much they can do about that. Lula may be a criminal, in fact he is, but he has the full support of both the Biden administration and the Chinese government.