In secret texts, Tucker Carlson declares that he despises President Trump “passionately.”

According to court papers, Fox News host Tucker Carlson texted an unidentified recipient on January 4, 2021, saying he hated then-President Donald Trump.

The papers related to the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit Dominion Voting Systems filed against Fox News on Tuesday included the text transcripts. Dominion says that despite knowing the stories were untrue, Fox News gave airtime to Trump’s conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, including that its voting machines were rigged.

On January 4, 2021, Carlson texted, “We are very, very close to being able to disregard Trump most nights. I am so eager to wait.

I vehemently despise him, he continued.

The most recent texts, despite Carlson’s apparent personal disdain for the former president, create an even clearer picture of the amount of effort he put into appeasing Trump and his supporters after the 2020 election. In texts to his producer on January 6, 2021, after Trump fans stormed the U.S. Capitol, Carlson was seen complaining that Trump was a “demonic force” and “a destroyer” according to a court document submitted last month.

In the media, Carlson continued to support Trump. Later that year, he made a documentary for the Fox Nation streaming service in which he made unfounded claims such as the Capitol disturbance was a “false flag” operation.

Just this week, Carlson came under fire from both sides of the political aisle for airing clips of the deadly riot that were selectively edited to portray the Trump fans as “sightseers” and refute the existence of an uprising.

Messages from the network’s owner, Rupert Murdoch, asking if Fox News hosts like Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham went too far with their commentary on the 2020 race were also included in Tuesday’s batch of documents.

“Perhaps Sean and Laura overreached. It’s fine for Sean to say he was depressed over Trump, but what did he say to his audience? Murdoch, the head of News Corp, wrote in a Jan. 21, 2021, email to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott.

The network’s argument that its hosts were simply repeating the president’s newsworthy remarks collapsed last month after it emerged that Murdoch had acknowledged, under oath, that several Fox hosts had supported the false idea of a stolen election.

Fox News claimed quotations had been changed and misattributed in a statement sent via email on Tuesday, accusing Dominion of using “more distortions and misinformation” to disparage Fox News.