REPORT: Laura Loomer calls the Heritage Foundation president a ‘liability for GOP’

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FROM THE HILL: 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.

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.

Carlson was slammed by the right for giving Fuentes a platform, but also for not aggressively challenging him.

“The deeper problem is that Carlson didn’t actually challenge any of Fuentes’s noxious views that he has spelled out quite clearly over the years,” the editors of the conservative magazine National Review wrote in an editorial this week. “In his appearance, Fuentes stated that the ‘big challenge’ to unifying the country against tribal interests was ‘organized Jewry in America,’ and he expressed admiration for Soviet butcher Joseph Stalin. He did not receive any pushback from Carlson.”

Roberts responded to the blowback, saying the “venomous coalition attacking” Carlson over the interview is “sowing division” and that the “attempt to cancel him will fail.”

“Most importantly, the American people expect us to be focusing on our political adversaries on the left, not attacking our friends on the right,” Roberts said. “I disagree with, and even abhor, things that Nick Fuentes says, but canceling him is not the answer either.”

“When we disagree with a person’s ideas and opinions, we challenge those ideas and debate, and we continue to see success in this approach as we continue to dismantle the vile ideas of the left,” Roberts said.

Loomer called Roberts a “hypocrite” after a recent interview with host Dana Loesch. During the interview, Roberts indirectly condemned comments made by Carlson and Fuentes.

“Wow this is outrageous. The head of Heritage is asked if calling Christian Zionists is ‘venomous’. He said yes,” Loomer wrote on X.

“When @DLoesch said, ‘Tucker said that,’ @KevinRobertsTX froze like a deer in headlights. He’s a a total hypocrite,” she added. “A liability for the GOP.”

In another X post, Loomer ripped Roberts again.

“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?”

Loomer lashed out again in a third post, saying conservatives need to break with Heritage.

“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. “So much chaos over one issue when we should be united in combatting ISLAMO-COMMIES.”

Roberts has attempted to explain his comments in 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 on Friday.

“Nick Fuentes’s antisemitism is not complicated, ironic, or misunderstood. It is explicit, dangerous, and demands our unified opposition as conservatives,” he also wrote. “For those, especially young men, who are enticed by Fuentes and his acolytes online—there is a better way. I look forward to talking more about this in the days to come.”

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