LOS ANGELES (OC).–CNN’s Jake Tapper said there’s a civil war going on in the Republicans Party with President Donald Trump refusing to condemn neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson, both have their own point of view on various issues, sometimes on the extreme margins of the party. Heritage Foundation Board Member Robert P. George resigned following President Kevin Roberts defense of Tucker Carlson. Tapper thinks that neo-Nazi’s like Nick Fuentes are a “festering issue that has caused something of a civil war with the Republican Party,” Tapper said, knowing that Fuentes is so marginalized he virtually has no clout in the Republican Party, the same thing can be said about Tucker Carlson. Fake News likes to highlight Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, all for the purpose of saying that Trump doesn’t condemn them, implying Trump is a neo-Nazi sympathizer.
Tapper pretends that Tucker and Fuentes drive the debate within the GOP, when, in fact, neither figure has much influence at all except to their own individuals followers. Tapper wondered whether it was appropriated for “prominent conservative media figures to stick as Tucker Calrson to plafrom Fuentes without seriously challenging his false and heinous view,” implying that Carlson lent credibility to Fuentes by not challenging him Anyone that’s followed Tucker’s interviewing skills knows that he gives his guests maximum latitude in interview without aggressively challenging them. Tucker’s view is simply it’s better to let his guests keep talking setting up a permanent record than jumping in to challenge them. Geroge quit the Heritage Foundation board when Roberts didn’t challenge Tucker. Roberts later said he made a mistake not challenging Tucker.
Trump didn’t do what Tapper and the fake news demands, to condemn Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes. If Trump doesn’t acquiesce to the fake news demands, it’s proof he’s a White Supremacist and racist. “”We’ve had some great interviews with Tucker Carlson, but you can’t tell him who to interview. I mean 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, let him you know, people have to decide, ultimately people have to decide” said Trump. Tapper thought he had Trump making the same statement during his first term when the Charolottesville White Nationalist protest took place. Trump was famously quoted saying there were good people on both sides of the issues, at the time was related to getting rid of Confederate monuments in the South. Trump never said he backed White nationalists.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.), considering a presidential run in 2028, weighed in on the topic of Tucker Carlson interviewing neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes. “So there we have it,” Tapper said. President Trump express no issues with no-Nazi Nick Fuentes, who has expressed an affinity for Adolf Hitler and regularly traffics in racist and sexist anti-Semitic filth,” said Tapper. Tapper wants to conflate Trump’s willingness to let independent journalists like Tucker do their jobs without fake news censorship. Cruz wanted to set the record straight on where he stood on Tucker Carlson interviewing Nick Fuentes. “My colleagues, almost to a person, thin what is happening is horrible, but a great many of them are frightened because has one hell of a big megaphone,” Cruz said Nov. 5 to the Federalist Society of National Lawyers Convention in Washington, D.C.
Cruz left no doubt about his disgust for Fuentes and other neo-Nazis. “If you sit there with someone who says Adolf Hitler was very, very cool, and that there 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 said, showing that he’s not part of what Tapper thinks is a GOP civil war. Tapper grossly exaggerates that fringe characters like Nick Fuentes play in the Republican Party.”Vice President JD Vance is considered the next leader of MAGA like of succession,” Tapper said. How ironic that Tapper fingers fringe members of the GOP as anti-Semitic when, in fact, the mainstream of the Democrat Party’s progressive wing is far more anti-Semitic, pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel. Yet if you listen to Tapper, there’s a civil war in the Republican Party over neo-Nazism.
Tapper showed his prodigious propaganda skills conflating Tucker Carlson’s Oct. 31 interview with Nick Fuentes. Because Trump refused to condemn Tucker’s interview, saying people should think for themselves, Tapper concludes that Trump support Fuentes neo-Nazism. “Clearly neither President Trump nor Vice President Vance are shy about attacking or insulting anyone they don’t like,” Tapper said. “They have opted to no do so when it comes to Nazis like Nick Fuentes, at a time when hate crimes against Jewish Americans are only rising in the Unites States. When it comes to this Civil War, they’ve made their view clear: They’re not going to condemn Nazis, [and] they’re not going to to condemn those who platform them,” Tapper said. Tapper works for the Democrat Party, saying and doing anything to condemn Trump and his MAGA movement.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
