Cruz Says Other Republicans Are Scared To Criticize Tucker Carlson | EUROtoday

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) mentioned Friday that a few of his GOP colleagues are too “frightened” to hitch him in criticizing Tucker Carlson’s interview with white supremacist Nick Fuentes.

Cruz made the remarks on the Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention in Washington, D.C., saying different Republicans quietly agree with him that Carlson must be rebuked for his podcast interview with the Holocaust denier however are scared to ruffle the feathers of such an influential voice in right-wing media.

“It’s easy right now to denounce Nick Fuentes. That’s kind of safe. Are you willing to say Tucker’s name?” Cruz requested.

“Now I can tell you, my colleagues, almost to a person, think what is happening is horrifying,” he continued. “But a great many of them are frightened because he has one hell of a big megaphone.”

Carlson, who hosted a wildly standard present at Fox News till his ouster in 2023, repeatedly has tens of millions of views on the YouTube model of “The Tucker Carlson Show.” Apple additionally revealed that it was its hottest new podcast in 2024.

Cruz mentioned he didn’t assume it was an issue that Carlson “platformed” Fuentes however somewhat that he did little to problem his visitor in the course of the interview.

“The last I checked, Tucker actually knows how to cross-examine someone, Cruz said.

“If you want to cross-examine and challenge him, that’s fine,” he continued. “But he didn’t. He fawningly gazed at him, including when Mr. Fuentes said he loved Stalin and he celebrated Joseph Stalin’s birthday every year.”

It’s true that Carlson did little to push again on Fuentes in that second, apart from saying he’d “circle back to that.” He by no means did.

Cruz started talking out towards Carlson over the Fuentes interview final week.

“If you sit there with someone who says Adolf Hitler was very, very cool, and that their mission is to combat and defeat global Jewry, and you say nothing,
then you are a coward and you are complicit in that evil,” Cruz mentioned, referencing Fuentes bemoaning the issues with “organized Jewry in America” in the course of the interview.

He was joined by former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who took intention on the right-wing Heritage Foundation for saying it will not distance itself from Carlson over the interview.

“The ‘intellectual backbone of the conservative movement’ is only as strong as the values it defends,” McConnell wrote on social media final week, quoting an announcement from Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts. “Last I checked, ‘conservatives should feel no obligation’ to carry water for antisemites and apologists for America-hating autocrats.”