Far-right activist Laura Loomer on Friday slammed the Heritage Foundation after its president, Kevin Roberts, spoke out in support of Tucker Carlson’s interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
Loomer called out Roberts as a “hypocrite” after his recent interview with host Dana Loesch, where he indirectly condemned comments made by Carlson and Fuentes, and following a
“Wow this is outrageous. The head of Heritage is asked if calling Christian Zionists is ‘venomous’. He said yes,” Loomer wrote in one post on social platform X, replying to an interview clip.
“When @DLoesch said, ‘Tucker said that,’ @KevinRobertsTX froze like a deer in headlights. He’s a a total hypocrite,” she continued. “A liability for the GOP.”
In a separate X post, Loomer dug in a little deeper.
“What @KevinRobertsTX needs to understand is you can respect someone’s right to free speech but also condemn them and their wicked behavior that is rooted in a desire to fracture the evangelical GOP base,” she posted. “Tucker is the demon who he says scratched him in his sleep. How’s that for venom?”
Her criticism of the Heritage chief and former Fox News host comes after GOP Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Mitch McConnell (Ky.) pushed back on Roberts, citing Fuentes’s history of antisemitism. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the highest-ranking Jewish member of Congress, also denounced the interview as “deeply disturbing,” and suggested the content was hazardous.
“Now is a time for choosing. If you sit there with someone who says Adolf Hitler was very cool and that their mission is to defeat ‘global Jewry,’ and you say nothing, then you are a coward, and you are complicit in that evil,” Cruz said Friday during remarks at the Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Summit in Las Vegas.
Roberts sought to clarify his comments following the uproar with his own message on X.
“Yesterday I said that I abhorred views expressed by Nick Fuentes — and that the best way to fight antisemitic ideas was to challenge them head on,” he wrote Friday in the lengthy post, sharing a long list of what he says the Heritage Foundation condemns when it comes to Fuentes.
“Nick Fuentes’s antisemitism is not complicated, ironic, or misunderstood. It is explicit, dangerous, and demands our unified opposition as conservatives,” he added later.
Loomer, in a third post, argued the broader backlash from Carlson’s interview is a sign that it’s for time for conservatives to break the think tank’s ties to the Republican Party.
“Heritage is so done. No way they survive this. Donors are done,” Loomer wrote in a separate post. “So many donors have told me that they are also done with the GOP.”
“What a sad position for the GOP to be in ahead of the midterms,” she added.
The conservative commentator has flexed her influence with President Trump in recent months, racking up both policy and personnel wins through her analysis. Trump has also often adhered to Loomer’s advice about parting ways with troublemakers within in his administration and among his nominees.
The president removed officials in both the Pentagon’s National Security Agency (NSA) and the White House’s National Security Council in April after Loomer suggested the individuals would bring bad blood to the Trump administration.
