The leader of the conservative thought behind the project 2025 apologized for supporting a white nationalist among the foremost of the ideological ideology, but resisting the calls to resign.
Kevin Roberts, the President of the Heritage Foundation, previously defended former Fox Host Tucker Carlson for his podcast that did not return his podcast views.
on Leaked Footage At a Heritage Town Hall from Wednesday, most staff members said Roberts’ decision to align with Fuentes’ thinking was a mistake. “I sinned and I let you down and I let this institution down. PERION. STOP IT,” he told Heritage staff.
He also admitted that he “didn’t know” about Fuentes before him a video was recorded and posted this on x where he defended Carlson as a “close friend of the Heritage Foundation”. He said a chief of staff, who has since resigned, wrote the script for the video.
Others called him to come down. Roberts, who holds a PhD in history and leads the judicial Projecto Project 2025, has been driving the foundation of a Trumpian stance since he joined in 2021.
He said he would not resign from his position, writing in X: “I am staying. I have everything.”
The Washington Post REPORT That “at least” five members of an antisementism taskforce of the organization resigned in protest. A staff member in an internal meeting called the issue his “last straw”.
Roberts called those who spoke out against Carlson a “venomius coalition”, a catchphrase that “causes those who are concerned about the rise of antisemitism.
Fuentes – who used to be ostracized by the mainstream right for his views, including support of Hitler and claims that Jews run the country – said on Carlson’s podcast that “organized Jewry” held outsize influence and said he was a fan of Joseph Stalin. Fuentes’s appearance on Carlson’s Podcast has drawn criticism from the right, with many seeing the interview as a further invitation to the extremist views of mainstream conservatism.
Roberts said that, while supporting Carlson, he does not agree and even the “haters” of the ‘fuentes’ views. .
Roberts then wrote a detailed post on x explaining the depths of Fuentes’ views.
“Fuentes makes grotesque analogies to test the skepticism of killing six million Jews during the Holocaust and says ‘I don’t hate Hitler,'” I wrote Holocaust. “Fuentes called for the death penalty for ‘observant Jews’ and other non-Christians, saying ‘if we have the power, we should give them the death penalty.'”
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“Everyone has a responsibility to speak out against the scourge of antisemitism, regardless of the messenger. Heritage and I will do it, even if my friend Carlson should be challenged,” he said in a lay Posted by X.
During the Q & a part of the town on Wednesday on Wednesday, a long-time heitage staff recognized by the Washington Free Beacon as Robert Rectors of the Conservative Movement Buisi fuSiM fuisative and “dismissed the lunistics”.
“And we’re bringing them back now,” Rector said. “The issue here is Tucker Carlsson … the Tucker show is like walking into a lunatic asylum.”
A full video of the internal Town Hall was leaked to the press. Some of the heritage States The culture of infighting and leaks in the Media removes people’s ability to have difficult conversations.
Roberts sought to cast the chaos as a necessary conversation: “Movements like ours are not fooled by adversity. We embrace it. We embrace it.”