Heritage Foundation defended former Fox News host, others slammed him for platforming white supremacist
Conservatives are fighting among themselves over the far-right commentator Tucker Carlson’s decision to interview the antisemitic white supremacist Nick Fuentes on his podcast, where the two men decried conservatives who support Israel.
Kevin Roberts, the head of the conservative Heritage Foundation thinktank, defended Carlson after the episode, saying Carlson “remains and, as I have said before, always will be a close friend of the Heritage Foundation”.
The response from the prominent thinktank on the right – the group behind Project 2025, the conservative manifesto that has guided the Trump administration – has roiled some of its supporters and deepened a chasm on the right over support of Israel and antisemitism.
On the podcast, Carlson called out Republicans including Senator Ted Cruz, the former president George W Bush and the ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, for being “Christian Zionists” who have been “seized by this brain virus”.
