Overview
- Tucker Carlson hosted white nationalist Nick Fuentes on his podcast, drawing criticism for giving him a platform and for offering little pushback on antisemitic claims.
- Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts first defended Carlson as a "close friend" and rejected calls to "cancel" Fuentes, then issued a new statement Friday explicitly denouncing Fuentes’s Holocaust denial and antisemitism.
- Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Mitch McConnell publicly rebuked Roberts’s stance, while the Republican Jewish Coalition signaled a reassessment of its ties to Heritage.
- Multiple Heritage staffers posted objections on X, highlighting internal dissent over engaging Fuentes’s ideas rather than ostracizing him.
- Roberts’s stance drew support from some MAGA-aligned figures, reflecting a broader split on the right over U.S. support for Israel and the limits of acceptable voices within the movement.