A man who allegedly used slurs against a teenage daughter of Fox News host Tucker Carlson is on the board of a women’s group.
Stormy Daniels’s lawyer Michael Avenatti, who Congress said lied to investigators in the Brett Kavanaugh investigation, published a video showing Carlson confronting the man at the Farmington Country Club in October, making another round of unsubstantiated claims.
Carlson then issued a statement clarifying the situation, noting that he didn’t want to make it public but was forced to clarify after Avenatti came forward.
“Toward the end of the meal, my 19-year-old daughter went to the bathroom with a friend. On their way back through the bar, a middle-aged man stopped my daughter and asked if she was sitting with Tucker Carlson,” Carlson said. “She answered, ‘That’s my dad,’ and pointed to me. The man responded, ‘Are you Tucker’s whore?’ He then called her a “[expletive].”
Carlson said he and his son went to the bar to confront the man, and that his son threw some wine in the man’s face after the man admitted to using slurs against his sister but that no physical contact occurred. Video footage of the incident appears to show Carlson telling the man, “Get the [expletive] out of here.”
Carlson said that after three weeks of investigation, the club revoked the man’s membership.
Carlson called what happened “a grotesque violation of decency.” He added, “I’ve never seen anything like it in my life.”
Carlson was also targeted by a far-left group in November, who tried to break into his house. His wife, home alone, called 911.
The man's name is Juan Manuel Granados of Charlottesville, VA and he sits on the BOARD OF DIRECTORS for a nonprofit organization "The Women's Initiative" @TWIcville pic.twitter.com/O8y3SfabgI
— Lemón (@LunarLemonade) November 11, 2018
On Board of Women’s Group
The man accused of accosting Carlson’s daughter was identified as Juan Manuel Granados.
Granados, who claimed that he didn’t speak to the teen, is on the board of directors for the Women’s Initiative, a group that provides mental health services for poor women.
“We believe every woman has an innate capacity for healing that, once uncovered and directed, results in better mental and physical health. We believe it is critical to address each woman’s unique emotional, physical and spiritual needs,” the group stated on its website.
The group has not commented on what happened. Reached by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an employee said, “Sorry we don’t speak to reporters.”
Granados disputes Carlson’s account and said he intends on pursuing charges against Carlson and his son. “I am confident that after a full and complete investigation, the truth will be known and Tucker’s version of events will be shown to be a complete fabrication,” Granados wrote.
The country club said in a statement sent to the Daily Progress that it’s investigating the incident.
“We can share that we take matters of offensive conduct very seriously, and we are confident that the facts in this matter, including compelling eyewitness testimony, provide a very clear account of what happened, and thus a clear path for the decisions being made in response by our board,” the club wrote in its statement.
“We also are aware that there has been uninformed gossip, speculation, and commentary about this incident, including inaccurate allegations being spread by individuals who were not present during the incident, and whose interpretation of events are refuted by the accounts of multiple eyewitnesses,” the statement continued.
