Outspoken Barstool Sports boss Dave Portnoy is betting against there being any truth to an interview posted Wednesday on social media, during which former Fox News fabulist Tucker Carlson spoke with a career criminal claiming to have “had a night of crack cocaine-fueled sex” with former President Barack Obama.
“I met Larry Sinclair when I was doing my Tucker thing a couple weeks ago,” Portnoy posted Thursday on the social media platform X. His own interview with Carlson aired last week.
“I would trust Anna Delvey before I trusted anything Larry Sinclair said,” Portnoy added. “Top to bottom maybe the least trustworthy human I’ve ever laid eyes on. I’d say his story has 0.0% of being true and that’s generous.”
Sinclair has for years been telling anyone who will listen that he hooked up with Obama in 1999, when the 44th president was a state senator in Illinois. There’s no indication his story is credible. Politico reported in 2008 that Sinclair had been convicted of numerous crimes including check fraud, credit card and forgery.
Carlson — a race–baiting entertainer who also has serious credibility issues — cackled and cajoled Sinclair during their discussion.
“If you’re smoking crack with a stranger in the back of a limo, you have to imagine things are going to go crazy places,” Carlson said.
During an appearance with conservative comic Adam Carolla last week, Carlson promoted his upcoming interview with Sinclair. Carlson said he must be telling the truth about his alleged rendezvous because he took a polygraph test. But as watchdog group Media Matters for America noted, Carlson neglected to mention Sinclair failed that lie detector test.
