Overview
- Kevin Roberts told employees he "made a mistake," apologized for calling critics a "venomous coalition," and said he feels a moral obligation to repair the damage.
- Leaked audio and video from a two-hour all-hands meeting showed senior fellows questioning his leadership and urging a public break with Tucker Carlson to restore credibility with Jewish partners and donors.
- Resignations from Heritage’s National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism expanded this week, including Mark Goldfeder, Ian Speir, Rabbi Yaakov Menken, and board member Laurie Cardoza-Moore, while the Combat Antisemitism Movement suspended participation.
- Roberts said a now-resigned chief of staff helped draft his initial defense of Carlson, and he added that he had offered his resignation to the board but wants to stay to "clean it up."
- The turmoil followed Carlson’s widely viewed, largely unchallenging interview with Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist and Holocaust denier, intensifying a broader rift inside the conservative movement.