Fried’s wide-ranging interview with Tucker Carlson has landed him in hot water with prison officials and some time in solitary confinement. A report in the New York Times says the co-founder of defunct crypto exchange FTX was put in solitary confinement after the interview was posted.

Fried has been placed in solitary confinement at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn following a jailhouse interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, The New York Times reports. The interview,

Tucker Carlson argued that Russia under President Vladimir Putin is “thriving,” contending that Putin is doing the “one job” required by presidents. Carlson made the assessment during a discussion with NewsNation host Chris Cuomo,

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson revealed that he is "definitely more sympathetic to [Vladimir] Putin" than Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the ongoing conflict with Russia. Carlson had a sit-down interview with NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo and claimed Russia is "thriving" amidst the war.

Right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson, who has often been called a MAGA puppeteer, said he was “sympathetic” to Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo. The conservative conspiracy theorist added that Russia was “thriving” as it continues to bombard Ukraine with deadly missiles three years into the war.