Kevin Roberts, under fire for defending Tucker Carlson’s interview with a white nationalist, said that he did not keep up with the news and that he had simply read an aide’s script.
Kevin Roberts, under fire for defending Tucker Carlson’s interview with a white nationalist, said that he did not keep up with the news and that he had simply read an aide’s script.
The move comes as the venerable conservative think tank is roiled by turmoil caused by its leader’s defense of a Tucker Carlson interview with a white nationalist.
Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, drew criticism for defending Tucker Carlson’s mostly friendly interview with Nick Fuentes, an avowed racist antisemite.
After Mr. Fuentes’s interview with Tucker Carlson, Republicans are considering just how far his views are from the nationalism embraced by President Trump’s followers.
Prominent Republicans rejected the views of Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist, though some refrained from directly criticizing Tucker Carlson for interviewing him.
Senators Ted Cruz and Mitch McConnell criticized Mr. Carlson, as well as Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, who defended Mr. Carlson as a “close friend.”
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