Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts posted a video to social media Thursday defending Tucker Carlson’s choice to host the white nationalist neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes on his show.
Roberts characterized Tucker Carlson as a “close friend” of the think tank, even as Carlson has criticized U.S. support of Israel and promotes the great replacement theory.
Fuentes’ followers insist they are trying to preserve America’s white Christian identity.
“The Heritage Foundation didn’t become the intellectual backbone of the conservative movement by cancelling our own people or policing the consciences of Christians, and we won’t start doing that now,” he said.
Senator minority leader Chuck Schumer posted a response to Roberts’ video.
“While not surprising coming from the home of Project 2025, this statement from the Heritage Foundation is deeply disturbing, an embrace of antisemitism and white supremacist conspiracy theories, all while trafficking antisemitic conspiracy theories of ‘globalist’ powers that control US policy,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish member of Congress, wrote on social media.
Here is a sample of the interview Carlson gave Fuentes:
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