Kevin Roberts, whose group pushed Project 2025, had defended ex-Fox News host’s talk with Nick Fuentes
The leader of the conservative thinktank behind Project 2025 apologized for supporting a white nationalist amid turmoil on the right over the mainstreaming of extremist ideology, but is resisting calls to resign.
Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, previously defended the former Fox host Tucker Carlson for having Hitler fan Nick Fuentes on his podcast without pushing back on his white supremacist views.
In leaked footage of a Heritage town hall from Wednesday, staffers largely said Roberts’s decision to align the thinktank with Fuentes was a mistake. “I made a mistake and I let you down and I let down this institution. Period. Full Stop,” he told Heritage staff.
He also claimed he “didn’t know much” about Fuentes before he recorded a video and posted it on X in which he defended Carlson as a “close friend of the Heritage Foundation”. He said that a chief of staff, who has since resigned, wrote the video’s script.
