Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy blasted Tucker Carlson over a recent interview with convicted fraudster Larry Sinclair, who claimed on Wednesday that he was involved in a drug-fueled sexual encounter with former President Barack Obama.
Portnoy posted a note on the social media platform X indicating that he had met Sinclair two weeks ago when they were both invited to Carlson’s studio in order to tape an interview, which was livestreamed on the app formerly known as Twitter.
“I would trust Anna Delvey before I trusted anything Larry Sinclair said,” Portnoy wrote Thursday, referencing the German-Russian “fake heiress” who served two years in prison for defrauding banks while impersonating a wealthy socialite in order to gain access to ritzy Manhattan parties.
“Top to bottom maybe the least trustworthy human I’ve ever laid eyes on,” Portnoy added.
“I’d say his story has 0.0% [chance] of being true and that’s generous.”
Portnoy, who recently granted Carlson an interview in the aftermath of his reacquisition of Barstool last month, joined Elon Musk, the tech mogul who acquired Twitter last year for $44 billion and rebranded it X, in casting doubt on Sinclair’s claims.
“Of course, the probability that his claims are true would have to rest on objective evidence, rather than claims made by someone with a dubious history,” Musk tweeted.
Carlson livestreamed a 42-minute interview with Sinclair on his X account during which the frequent Obama basher claimed to have had a “night of crack cocaine-fueled sex” with the 44th president “and that Obama came back for more the next day.”
Sinclair, 61, repeated the debunked claim he first made 15 years ago that he didn’t know who Obama was when allegedly meeting the little-known Illinois state senator in 1999.
“I was in Chicago looking for a party … I gave Barack $250 to pay for coke and start putting a line on a CD tray, and just snort,” he recalled.
“It was definitely not Barack’s first time,” Sinclair added in response to Carlson’s question of whether the intercourse was transactional.
The ex-con first made headlines in 2008, when he initially made a series of scandalous public accusations against then-Democratic presidential candidate Obama during a National Press Club meeting in Washington, DC.
He was hauled away in handcuffs and his claims were brushed off after Sinclair wasn’t able to substantiate them with evidence.
In February 2008, the website Whitehouse.com reportedly offered Sinclair $100,000 if he could pass a polygraph test regarding his claims.
He took the offer, though the site later said that Sinclair’s responses “indicated deception,” according to Politico.
The Minnesota native has served time behind bars multiple times since the 1980s.
His first brush with the law took place in Denver, Colo., in 1981 on a charge of larceny.
In 1985, he was convicted of theft and forging a check in Florida and was sentenced to one year in prison, Sinclair’s arrest records showed, Politico reported.
The Post has sought comment from Carlson.
Additional reporting by Shannon Thaler
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