A clip of an American news anchor has reportedly been broadcast on Russian televisions. 

Fox News host Tucker Carlson earlier this week sympathised with Russian President Vladimir Putin, discounting Ukraine as “a pure client state of the United States State Department”.

He claimed Americans have been trained to hate Putin, stating “anything less than hatred for Putin is treason”.

The comments were strong enough to draw attention from the Kremlin’s PR machine, which promptly broadcast the segment on its state television.

“The problem with his job is he’s not exactly a fact-minding, truth-seeking journalist as such,” Nine News US correspondent Michael Genovese told Sofie Formica.

“You’ve got [Russia] now using the most-watched cable news anchor here in the States to say ‘Look: this is what Americans think of their own President’.”

Michael said he’s not surprised some right-wing personalities are spinning the conflict into a criticism of President Joe Biden.

“It’s Republican and Democrat on every issue here,” he said. “From vaccines to masks to police shootings, it all gets a run and they all use it whichever way they can against each other.

“The real problem is it’s always an election cycle here.”

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