A Tucker Carlson text message described a video that showed a “group of Trump guys” jumping an “Antifa kid,” before the former Fox personality explained that “It’s not how white men fight.”

The text, which was obtained by The New York Times, was redacted from public court documents in Dominion’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News. That lawsuit was settled for a record $787.5 million last month.

According to the report, Carlson sent the text to one of his producers a day after the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. The report indicates Fox executives were made aware of the text before the trial last month and were worried it would come out during the trial.

Here is the full text:

“A couple of weeks ago, I was watching video of people fighting on the street in Washington. A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living shit out of him. It was three against one, at least.

“Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It’s not how white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it.

“Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: this isn’t good for me. I’m becoming something I don’t want to be. The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I’m sure I’d hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn’t gloat over his suffering. I should be bothered by it.

“I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this kid, and would be crushed if he was killed. If I don’t care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?”

Last month, Carlson and Fox News Media agreed to part ways, the company announced in a press release. Carlson, who had been with the network 14 years, headlined “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” a lead in to Sean Hannity’s Fox News show “Hannity.”

Read “The Times” reports here.

Mark Heim is a reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim.