Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts made it crystal clear Thursday that his rightwing think tank is not distancing itself from Tucker Carlson over his hourslong interview with white supremacist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes.
In a sit-down video to address the “speculation” he’s been seeing, Roberts affirmed that the ousted Fox News host “always will be a close friend of the Heritage Foundation” and denounced right-wing criticism of Carlson platforming Fuentes as the work of a “venomous coalition” trying to “cancel” him.
“The American people expect us to be focusing on our political adversaries on the left, not attacking our friends on the right,” Roberts said.
As for Fuentes, Roberts said: “I disagree with and even abhor things that Nick Fuentes says, but canceling him is not the answer either.”
Fuentes, a far-right activist who once called for “a total Aryan victory” and has repeatedly praised Adolf Hitler, responded on social media, thanking Roberts for his “courage in standing up for open discourse and defending Tucker against the Israel First Woke Right.”
