Tucker Carlson could see Rebekah Mercer, Peter Thiel invest in his media company, Brian Schwartz, CNBC, Aug 8, 2023
Tucker Carlson has become the latest TV star in Russia. See how. Erin Burnett Out Front. CNN's Matthew Chance looks at the increasing appearances of Tucker Carlson on Russian state TV as the Kremlin sees propaganda value in the former Fox News anchor. CNN, May 23, 2024
"Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts made it crystal clear Thursday that his rightwing think tank is not distancing itself from Tucker Carlson over his hourslong interview with white supremacist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes."
Heritage Foundation Defends Tucker Carlson Over His Interview With Holocaust Denier: The group's president denounced "attacking our friends on the right." Lydia O'Connor, HuffPost, Oct 30, 2025
After spending much of his second presidency trying to get multiple journalists and comedians pulled off-air, Trump now says no one can tell Tucker Carlson whom to interview. The Associated Press reports:
President Donald Trump on Sunday brushed aside concerns about conservative commentator Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with a far-right activist known for his antisemitic views, which has caused a schism within the Republican Party.
Trump defended Carlson, saying the former Fox News host has “said good things about me over the years.” He said if Carlson wants to interview Nick Fuentes, whose followers see themselves as working to preserve America’s white, Christian identity, then “people have to decide.” Trump did not criticize Carlson or Fuentes.
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Trump told reporters as he prepared to fly back to Washington from a weekend in Florida that when it comes to Carlson, “You can’t tell him who to interview.”
“If he wants to interview Nick Fuentes, I don’t know much about him, but if he wants to do it, get the word out,” Trump said. “People have to decide.”
The GOP’s Effort To Rein In Bigotry Is Too Little Too Late: The conservative uproar over Tucker Carlson hosting the racist antisemite Nick Fuentes comes long after Donald Trump took down any boundaries restraining the far-right. Paul Blumenthal, HuffPost, Nov 18, 2025
By the way, his views on queer people: What does Tucker Carlson say about LGBT people?
Marjorie Taylor Greene was raised Catholic but converted to evangelicalism in 2011 because, Virginia Heffernan explains, "she was disgusted by systemic rape of children by clergy and because she (like Steve Bannon and J.D. Vance) despises as demonic the increasingly progressive Papacy. She cheered the death of Pope Francis, whom she called Satanic." However, "it’s not impossible that Greene is freshly drawn to the religion of her childhood. Fuentes’s anti-Israel Trad Cath scene, which also loathed Francis and now rejects Pope Leo, could easily call to her. She has defended Fuentes and Tucker Carlson, who is also playing footsie with Trad Caths, for hosting him on his show. In July, she singled out the destruction of a Catholic Church in Gaza as her reason to vote to cut funding for Israel. What’s more, if pedophilia is now the province of Trump and Epstein, rather than of the Catholic priesthood, she might be able to sneak over to the Trad Cath movement with moral impunity." (emphasis mine)
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