The White House furiously condemned far-right commentator Tucker Carlson on Thursday for platforming a Holocaust denier.
According to CNN, senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates blasted Carlson for “giving a microphone to a Holocaust denier who spreads Nazi propaganda is a disgusting and sadistic insult to all Americans, to the memory of the over 6 million Jews who were genocidally murdered by Adolf Hitler, to the service of the millions of Americans who fought to defeat Nazism, and to every subsequent victim of Antisemitism.”
The Biden administration believes that "trafficking in this moral rot is unacceptable," Bates said — particularly less than a year after the "deadliest massacre perpetrated against the Jewish people since the Holocaust and at a time when the cancer of Antisemitism is growing all over the world.”
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Carlson gave a two-hour interview to Darryl Cooper, whom he described as possibly "the best and most honest popular historian in the United States."
Cooper claimed, among other things, that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and not Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was the “chief villain of the Second World War” and was “primarily responsible for that war becoming what it did, becoming something other than an invasion of Poland.” He also suggested that the deaths of German Jews were simply an unfortunate side effect of the war.
The Nazi regime had a systematic policy of extermination that saw millions of Jews in both Germany and Nazi-allied countries deported to be murdered in death camps.
Carlson, who previously held a primetime show on Fox News where critics said he laundered white nationalist propaganda to viewers, purportedly with the full knowledge of network executives, doubled down when reached for comment, saying in a text message to CNN reporters that, “The fact that these lunatics have used the Churchill myth to bring our country closer to nuclear war than at any moment in history disgusts me, and should terrify every American."
"They’re warmonger freaks. They don’t get the moral high ground,” he continued.
