After Tucker Carlson, Piers Morgan interviews antisemite and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes |
JTA — Another conservative media personality with links to mainstream culture has interviewed Nick Fuentes, the avowed white nationalist and antisemite whose rising popularity and recent chummy interview with Tucker Carlson has fractured the Republican Party.
The British commentator Piers Morgan hosted Fuentes on his YouTube show “Piers Morgan Uncensored” Monday, for a two-hour chat. Morgan, who considers himself a free-speech absolutist, told viewers he decided to interview Fuentes in order to understand his views better.
“It doesn’t make a lot of sense to spend all this time talking about Nick Fuentes, but not actually to Nick Fuentes,” Morgan said at the top of his YouTube show. He told his guest, “People are talking about you in a more mainstream environment than you may be used to.”
It was the same justification that Carlson gave for hosting Fuentes on his own show, an interview that was soon defended by the head of an influential conservative think tank and has led to a splintering between those who want to expel Fuentes and his followers, and the rest of the GOP.
Morgan’s Fuentes sit-down came the same day that Sen. Chuck Schumer introduced a resolution rejecting Fuentes and his rhetoric that drew support from Senate Democrats as well as a range of Jewish groups. The resolution also condemned Carlson for not pushing back on Fuentes when he hosted the streamer.
In his interview, Morgan took a decidedly more........