Jewish conservative calls Trump's embrace of ex-Fox News host 'direct threat' to campaign

Jewish conservative calls Trump's embrace of ex-Fox News host 'direct threat' to campaign

By Brad Reed
September 6, 2024 10:16AM ET

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tucker-carlson/

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Jonathan S. Tobin, the conservative editor-in-chief of the Jewish News Service, is demanding that former President Donald Trump renounce his ties to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson after Carlson hosted a self-proclaimed historian who peddled long-discredited Nazi propaganda about Adolf Hitler's purportedly peaceful intentions.

In his latest column, Tobin acknowledged Carlson's troubling history of mainstreaming right-wing cranks, but said that he crossed a major line with his promotion of self-proclaimed "historian" Daryl Cooper, who declared that Winston Churchill was a bigger "villain" in World War II than Hitler, the virulently anti-Semitic dictator whose regime murdered 6 million Jews in concentration camps.

Jonathan S. Tobin, the conservative editor-in-chief of the Jewish News Service, is demanding that former President Donald Trump renounce his ties to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson after Carlson hosted a self-proclaimed historian who peddled long-discredited Nazi propaganda about Adolf Hitler's purportedly peaceful intentions.

"It is now incumbent on all decent people, and especially those on the right, to demand that Carlson no longer be treated as a mainstream figure," he argued. "Call it cancel culture, if you like, but the notion that someone who thinks it is acceptable or legitimate to question the truth about the Holocaust ought not to have access to a potential president, as Carlson appears to have with Trump, is entirely reasonable. That remains true even if Trump’s pro-Israel policies are the opposite of those of the former Fox News host

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Applegrove:

What did this guy not get about "There are very fine people - on both sides". Haters are haters.