Heritage Foundation head defends Tucker Carlson for hosting white nationalist with antisemitic views
The president of a prominent Republican-aligned think tank defended conservative media personality Tucker Carlson after he hosted a conversation with a far-right activist known for pushing white nationalist and antisemitic views. Heritage Foundation President Kevin Robert posted a video to social media in which he denied that the group was “distancing itself” from the former Fox News host after Carlson hosted Nick Fuentes, whose followers see themselves as trying to preserve America’s white, Christian identify. In his video, Roberts called Carlson “a close friend” of the think tank and said the Heritage Foundation would not be “cancelling our own people or policing the consciences of Christians.” Some Democrats and Jewish Republicans expressed outrage at Roberts’ support of Carlson.