Overview
- Speaking to reporters in West Palm Beach on Sunday, Trump said Tucker Carlson should be free to interview Nick Fuentes and urged to "get the word out" so people can decide.
- He said he did not know Fuentes would attend a 2022 Mar-a-Lago dinner with Ye, describing Fuentes as having "came along" as part of the rapper’s group.
- Carlson’s podcast conversation with Fuentes aired late last month and prompted a wider conservative dispute over platforming and whether the host challenged Fuentes’ claims sufficiently.
- The episode roiled the Heritage Foundation after president Kevin Roberts initially defended Carlson, prompting task-force resignations before Roberts later apologized and denounced Fuentes’ views.
- Reporting describes Fuentes as a white nationalist and antisemite, with past statements such as praising Hitler and denying the Holocaust.