The GOP continues to expertise extra fallout over its affiliation with the antisemitic, Holocaust-denying podcaster Nick Fuentes.
On Monday, Heritage Basis Board of Trustees member Robert P. George introduced that he was stepping down after President Kevin Roberts defended right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson for interviewing Fuentes.
White supremacist Nick Fuentes is seen throughout a rally in 2020.
“I have resigned from the board of the Heritage Foundation. I could not remain without a full retraction of the video released by Kevin Roberts, speaking for and in the name of Heritage, on October 30th,” George wrote on Fb.
Roberts initially defended Carlson’s determination to interview Fuentes, complaining {that a} “venomous coalition” of individuals had condemned Carlson for giving the white supremacist a platform. Fuentes has spent years spewing open bigotry of Jewish and Black folks. However to be honest, Carlson isn’t any stranger to racist rhetoric himself.
Just a few days later, Roberts pulled again on his help throughout a Heritage Basis city corridor, which was leaked.
“I made a mistake and I let you down, and I let down this institution,” he stated.
Along with George, no less than seven different Heritage workers and fellows have left the group over the Fuentes interview.
However one main Republican determine is completely high quality with the controversial interview: President Donald Trump.
Donald Trump seems on Tucker Carlson’s tour forward of the 2024 presidential election.
Talking with reporters Sunday, Trump backed Carlson—who has campaigned with him—and his determination to platform an antisemite.
“You can’t tell him who to interview. If he wants to interview Nick Fuentes, I don’t know much about him, but if he wants to do it, get the word out,” Trump stated. “People have to decide.”
In response, Fuentes shared a video of Trump’s feedback, writing, “Thank you Mr. President!”
Trump hosted Fuentes for dinner at Mar-a-Lago in 2022, together with rapper Kanye West—who has absolutely embraced antisemitic conspiracy theories and bigotry.
Regardless of the Trump administration’s claims that it’s preventing antisemitism, Trump has a historical past of indulging in anti-Jewish rhetoric. Most infamously, he referred to as neo-Nazis “very fine people,” and has used antisemitic tropes in his campaigns.
The best has an antisemitism drawback—and it goes all the way in which as much as the White Home.
